Julio Cann González (aka Parch.Es) is a composer and transdisciplinary artist from Mexico City based in Germany. His practice spans a range of media – from sound, performance, and writing to social relations and virtual reality – and takes the form of assemblage, a term that relates to both ‘collage’ and ‘network’. His work assembles elements from across times, places, and peoples to create fluid identities and contingent narratives. It embodies transitory subjectivities, 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 the California Institute of the Arts. Working at independent record label Chimera Music, he earned credits on albums by Yoko Ono and John Lennon, among others. He has composed many scores for film, theater, and digital media, and collaborated with philosopher Armen Avanessian on works presented at Kaaitheater in Brussels and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. He has been artist in residence at Banff Centre for the Arts, CultureHub LA, and is currently a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude. In Mexico, he is honored to call home the historic Galería de Arte Mexicano.