Jorge Arriagada was born in Chile in 1943.

He studied at the music conservatory of the University of Chile, then with Max Deutsch in Paris, as a French government scholarship holder from 1967 to 1971.
He studied electroacoustic music techniques in Europe and researched computer music composition at Stanford University (California).

In 1970, he founded the experimental music studio at the American Center in Paris, which he ran until 1974.

At the same time, he was professor of musical composition.
Winner of the Guggenheim Foundation prize for musical composition in 1972, he is the author of electroacoustic, chamber and symphonic music.
After meeting Raul Ruiz in 1974, he devoted himself mainly to writing music for the cinema.

He composed the original scores for José Luis Guerin’s Saphir de Saint-Louis (2011), Xavier Villetard and Xavier d’Arthuys’ Chez Frida Kahlo (2011) and, more recently, François-Xavier Destors’ Toxicily (2023). (source: La Cinémathèque française)