About
“We are decomposing.”
Brian Niños is a Miami-based ensemble working at the edge of sound and image through live, co-creative improvisation. Founded by Dimitry Saïd Chamy, José Hernández Sánchez, and Juraj Kojš, the group constructs real-time feedback loops between music and video, often expanding to include other musicians, artists, writers, and performers.Sound produced by Kojš, Hernández Sánchez, and collaborators is continuously routed into Chamy’s digital systems, activating evolving visuals that both respond to and shape the music, either directly or as a mutable, live “score” that affects responses from all participants in the system.Control is shared in real time. Any participant may influence global parameters affecting sound and image. In some contexts, this can extend to audiences, whose presence, movement, or interaction becomes part of the feedback loop. Roles remain fluid. No performance or recording resolves the same way twice. What emerges is a living dialogue between listening, seeing, and participation, where structure forms, dissolves, and reforms in the moment.
Works
Jour de Neige
“Where snow whispers and time breathes light.”
Jour de Neige2025, Single channel with sound, UHD 4K 16:9, 06m24sEric Satie’s understated Nocturnes, with their static motion and subtle continuity, have long inspired minimalist composers such as Brian Eno, Philip Glass, and Aphex Twin. Their quiet dailiness contrasts sharply with the vivid textures and virtuosic bursts of Ravel’s Alborada del Gracioso, a work of rhythmic disruption and emotive surges. In this video, Brian Niños expands time through layered textures and gradual transformations. Fragments of Satie and Ravel are looped, filtered, and time-stretched, revealing slow parametric evolution. A Thanksgiving-day snowfall during Chamy’s countryside visit to Leeway in Sharon Springs, New York, captures the everyday magic of winter yielding to a luminous flickering awareness of time at another scale.
+ Dimitry Saïd Chamy
+ José Hernández Sánchez
+ Juraj Kojš
Celestial Frenzy
“Space tastes like metal.”
Celestial Frenzy2025, single channel with sound 16:9 HD, 14mThe piece begins with scraping pulses of filtered noise—persistent, like sound leaking from a rusted Berlin pipe. Gradually, feedback slides and glitching fragments emerge, expanding into harmonic scrolls and full arpeggiations. A static “Evacuate” pulse fractures into wooden and metallic machine-like rhythms, evoking an imagined factory. Brass-like bass motives surge as pulses subdivide and tempo accelerates toward an abrupt stop, leaving lingering swells. Swirling glissandi and dramatic noise interruptions follow, like tuning a repurposed radio sending Morse signals of disappearance, before dissolving into floor noise—returning to the hum of that rusty pipe. The visuals are animated from Chamy’s drawing archive.
+ Dimitry Saïd Chamy
+ José Hernández Sánchez
+ Juraj Kojš
News & Events
Jour de Neige
2025—12—13
From the Romantic Tradition to the Avant-garde in Contemporary Music
Fixed Media Performance & Zoom Interview
Alliance Française Genoa, Italy
curated by Elizabeth Vermeer
Alliance Française Genoa, Italy
curated by Elizabeth Vermeer
2025 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) and the 100th anniversary of the death of Erik Satie (1866–1925). Both composers left a profound impact on the evolution of classical music. The Alliance Française of Genoa, in partnership with Design for Everyday Life, is joining the Ravel and Satie celebrations with a cross-disciplinary program spanning all the arts, from photography to drawing and painting, from poetry to piano concerts and singing, from theatrical performance to contemporary dance. The project revolves around the photographic exhibition "Alborada Nocturne," a showcase of the works of fifteen digital artists and composers that offer insight into numerous research projects and immersive, multisensory experiences that enrich the aesthetic experience and stimulate spectators' mental creativity. The exhibition, which will remain on display until January 31, 2026, serves as a stage for a series of meetings that offer lesser-known aspects and insights into the subject.In this cultural context, following the first event, Elsa Guerci's 88 Keys show, on the afternoon of December 13th, punctuated by three episodes of classical music, astronomy, and avant-garde sound art, opens the way for a revisitation and reevaluation of the work of the project's two protagonists, Ravel and Satie, preceded by Claude Debussy. The event begins with a proposal from the Sadko Cultural Association. which features a concert of very young prodigy musicians under the guidance of piano teacher Natalia Pirogova. Subsequently, Enrico Giordano, Director of the OAG, Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium of Genoa, will take the public into the universe where asteroids transit, among them, in particular, the three specimens registered as 4727, 9438, and 4492, respectively, Ravel, Satie, and Debussy.The event concludes with a composer and musician who has previously worked on the sound of the stars, Juraj Kojs, an associate professor at the University of Miami and a lover of Erik Satie, who will meet the audience via video conference. The music video, created with colleagues from Brian Niños, is a testament to Caprarica's style, fusing digital soundtracks with classical musical fragments and often phonetic elements.Alborada Nocturne, which has obtained the patronage of the Municipality of Genoa and the Niccolò Paganini Conservatory of Genoa, is scientifically coordinated by Design for Everyday Life and benefits from the collaboration of the following institutions: Sadko Cultural Association, Genoa, Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium of Genoa, Association of Friends of the Carlo Felice Theatre and the Niccolò Paganini Conservatory, Genoa, FotoPoesia Genoa, ArteDisegno Genoa, Accademia Sipario and Erik Satie Competition, Caprarica di Lecce, Febbre e Lancia Cultural Association, Florence and Calliope Bureau, Florence.
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“We are decomposing.”
Dimitry Saïd Chamy
Miami, Florida
