Chimi Jo´s Bio
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Chimi Jo is an electronic music composer and producer. He delivers a kind of music that seems to suggest all kinds of colorful visual landscapes. With audio samples of toys, toy instruments, and everyday objects, Chimi Jo creates dreamy, playful tracks flirting with ambient, chillwave, experimental, and EDM.
Musical Composition BA at the Music Faculty of the National Autonomous University in Mexico City.
He has been commissioned to compose original music for different kinds of stage productions: Loto Rojo (2012), Mujeres Sin Cuello (2014) and En la Soledad de los Muertos (2015).
He has made the music for several videos by Studio Chirika and Chameshi Ji, art collectives in Mexico City, led by the Japanese Artist Yupica. Those videos can be seen by clicking here, and an album compilation is out now, on chimijo.bandcamp.com .
He is also percussionist who loves to play Javanese gamelan and loves Indonesian traditional music in general. He was one of the founders and Artistic Director for ten years of Indra Swara, the Javanese gamelan orchestra in Mexico City. While he was living in Massachusetts, he joined the Gamelan Laras Tentrem at Tufts University, and the Harvard University Gamelan. With all these ensembles, he gave several concerts; and also workshops, conferences, etc. Bells and bars and kettles and chimes from the East are a big influence on Chimi Jo´s narrative.
He used to work as a music programmer at the National University Radio Station (Radio UNAM), before he moved to the US.
Chimi Jo has one album officially released in January 2016, Strom Stimme, which is the result of a Young Creators grant from 2014, under the Electronic Music category. This album is available on CD, thanks to the support from more than 70 crowdfunders, through the website fondeadora.mx which became part of Kickstarter.com recently. The music has been played live on four different occasions in Mexico (Puebla and Mexico City) and a U.S. Tour official announcement is on its way. For more information about tourdates, subscribe by sending us a message.
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