Chatori Shimizu (1990), a New York City based composer, researcher, and sound artist, was born in Osaka, Japan, and spent his formative years in Thailand and Singapore. With deep interests in the comparison of Eastern and Western Philosophy, Shimizu mainly composes orchestral and electronic music in which all of his works are composed in a conceptual and ideological restriction. He also provides his music to many advertising jingles and media programs for television and radio, sound installations, popular music records, and has scored for multiple art films and animations. He received his BM from Kunitachi College of Music (Tokyo), and was awarded the Arima Prize upon graduating as a top student in his graduating class. He is currently pursuing his MFA Fellowship at the Computer Music Center at Columbia University as a scholarship student, studying composition and sound arts, as well as researching the expressive usages of new technologies in art.