A multifaceted figure whose work spans graphic design, teaching, and grassroots organizing alongside music-making, Jeremiah Chiu crafts electronic pieces that feel warm and organic through his blend of analog and digital synthesizers, samplers, and computers. Founding the design studio Some All None, he also serves as a resident DJ for the Los Angeles-based online radio outlet Dublab. In addition to producing visual art for many releases on Chicago’s International Anthem Recording Company, he has placed several of his own projects with the label, among them the 2023 solo album In Electric Time and multiple joint efforts with violist Marta Sofia Honer. The pair later joined new age pioneer Ariel Kalma to create the 2024 album The Closest Thing to Silence.
Having studied classical violin and piano from childhood, Chiu later trained in graphic design and fine art while performing with Chicago ensembles such as Icy Demons, Chandeliers, and Axis: Sova within the artist network tied to the city’s Shape Shoppe studio and collective. He further honed his voice as an electronic composer before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014 to focus on that pursuit. Under the alias Cosmic Son he issued the lo-fi synth pop cassette Moon Surf in 2015, followed in 2018 by the limited-edition cassette-and-book project Song Send Poem. A meditative 2020 single titled “Time You Can Change” emerged from his collaboration with Takako Minekawa.
Recordings from the Åland Islands, an improvisation-driven set created with longtime partner Marta Sofia Honer, appeared in 2022. The following year the duo issued the nineteen-minute piece “Leaving Grass Mountain” through Longform Editions. After opening for M83 on tour, Chiu spent two days capturing analog-tape improvisations at Los Angeles’s Vintage Synthesizer Museum; those sessions became the solo album In Electric Time, first released on cassette in 2023 and then on vinyl the next year. Chiu and Honer also partnered with French experimental musician Ariel Kalma to produce the full-length The Closest Thing to Silence in 2024.
