Bio

Bernardo Alvarado Rojas is a music producer, composer and sound designer interested in finding ways to provoke vitality, self awareness and an enhanced perception of our relationship to our planet Earth and its habitants via his artwork. He makes use of a blend of ancestral and modern acoustic instruments, sound recording, and electronic instrumentation to create music and sound that attempts to explore the depths of our humanity.

Bernardo was born and raised in Mexico City. At age 19 he started his formal training as a producer, classical composer, pianist and guitarist at Concordia University. He trained classical piano, harmony and counterpoint under the supervision of Dr. Yaron Ross, composition under the supervision of Georges Dimitrov, and classical guitar under the supervision of Patrick Kearney, Jerome Ducharme and Dr. Tariq Harb. After graduating with honours in 2015, he started producing and collaborating with other artists to create electronic, traditional and classical music as KALMO. He also started offering professional music composition, sound design and sound post-production services to music supervisors, video editors, film directors, video production companies and dance choreographers with his label VibroSounds. In 2023, he finished composing and producing the music for the socio-ecological immersive audio visual installation, Terrarium, by Damian Siqueiros and Terra Sapiens Studios.  Presently, Bernardo is working on a collaboration with contemporary dancer, Paco Ziel, and transdisciplinary dance company, VIAS, to create a performance dance piece and audiovisual arts installation inspired in pre-hispanic Mesoamerican art titled, Flesh and Sound, which will be premiered in 2023. He is also developing his debut neo-classical and electronic dance project created with ancestral instruments, Asceta.