Chatori Shimizu
Bio: Chatori Shimizu is a New York City–based composer and sound artist who constructs his works for a wide range of media concerning sound and space. Ranging from orchestral works to sound installations, all of his works are composed in a conceptual restriction, engaging in repetitive patterns of sound and their hysterical demolition. His award-winning works have been performed and exhibited throughout the United States, Japan and Europe. Shimizu was born in Osaka, Japan, and spent his formative years in Thailand and Singapore. He received his BA from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo and was awarded the Arima Prize upon graduating as a top student in his graduating class. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Sound Arts at the Computer Music Center at Columbia University, researching the expressive usages of new technologies in sound expressions.