Mika Martini is the principal solo project of Hugo Espinosa Chellew (Chile, 1967), self-taught electronic musician and director of Pueblo Nuevo Netlabel. With studies in architecture and a degree in design from Universidad Católica de Chile, Espinosa has developed his artistic skills in areas ranging from the direction of video clips, 3-D animation, traditional graphic design, multimedia and web design. Under this alias, Espinosa initiated a musical solo career in early 2004 with the firm objective of rescuing and mixing sounds coming from the Chilean ethnic background and abstract elements, linked to the techniques of "microsampling" and the "minimal" current, developing a parallel work more linked to experimental music and electronic improvisation. At the end of 2004, Mika Martini formed part of the "Taller Electro (electronic workshop)", an entity created by the Electroacoustic Community of Chile (CECh) as a space for musical creation, dissemination, and training of new creators of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. From that milestone, Martini has continued to work with the CECh, of which he is a member, in the organization of events, concerts and promotion of the International Festival of Electronic Music Ai-Maako. Additionally, his relationship with electroacoustic music materialized through studies of composition and spatialization with the masters Rodrigo Sigal (Mexico) and Federico Schumacher (Chile) respectively. (Bio photo by Juan Valdivieso – South Plug)