Nicolás Jaar, 34, was born in New York 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. Since 2013, he has curated the Other People label, which releases experimental electronic and acoustic music. In recent years, Nicolás has 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; Sonica in Ljubljana, Slovenia; Dar Jacir and Alrowwad in Bethlehem, Palestine; and many others. His latest project is called Archivos de Radio Piedras, a 17-episode 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. Nicolás is also part of the research collective Shock Forest Group, the band Darkside, and was one of the founders of Musicians for Palestine.
