Julio Cann González

Julio Cann González is an experimental composer and transdisciplinary artist from Mexico City, presently based in Germany. His music travels across song, sound collage, ambient, free improvisation, and performance art. Playing with time and space, his multimedia practice assembles elements from different periods, places, and peoples to create speculative and contingent narratives. His work embodies fluid identities and produces transitory subjects, embracing Virgil Abloh’s view of the artist as »someone who moves things from one place to another«.

He holds a BFA in Recorded Music from New York University and an MFA in Composition, Experimental Sound Practices, and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. Working at independent record label Chimera Music, he earned production credits on albums by Yoko Ono and John Lennon, among others. He has composed scores for film, theater, and virtual reality, and collaborated with philosopher Armen Avanessian on events at Kaaitheater in Brussels and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. He has been artist in residence at Banff Centre for the Arts, CultureHub. In Mexico, his work is hosted at the historic Galería de Arte Mexicano.