Nicolás Jaar, 34, was born in NY to Chilean parents and raised between Santiago and New York. Since 2008, he has released music under various guises spanning shades of pop, ambient, noise, and club music. In recent years, Nicolás has mainly focused on education, teaching sound-editing and listening workshops to emerging musicians and non-musicians alike in institutions such as the Museo de la Memoria in Santiago, Chile, Festival 4×4, Chiapas, Mexico, Dar Jacir and Alrowwad in Bethlehem, Palestine, among others. His latest project is called “Archivos de Radio Piedras”. It’s a 3h 1/2 long radio play set in the near future in Chile. His debut collection of stories “Isole” was released by Timeo, an Italian publishing house in February 2024. Nico is also part of the “Shock Forest Group”, “Darkside”, and was one of the founders of “Musicians for Palestine”.