José Hernández Sánchez creates music compositions that extend to other media like performance and film. In them, musical contexts are established using sound, music, texts and images, and utilizing their connotations. These contexts are usually mixed and used to generate uncertainty, a vital aspect in his work. His pieces have been performed in the United States, Latin America and Europe at international festivals such as Miami Performance International Festival, Subtropics, NWEAMO Festival (US), Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea (Colombia), Festival Internacional de Música Clásica Contemporánea de Lima (Perú), Primavera en La Habana (Cuba). Microscope Gallery (NY), MATCH Theater Houston (TX), Pallas Projects Dublin (Ireland), Spazio Unimedia, Venice (Italy) have shown his film work. In 2018 Radio Nacional de España featured a monograph dedicated to his music. Renown venues like New York University, First Ibero-American Digital Arts Conference, (Guatemala), and the International Aesthetics and Philosophy of Music Conference (Ecuador) have invited him as speaker on aesthetics, contemporary music and digital arts. He has been a juror and panelist to composition contests for the Sound & Music Computing Conference, and New Music USA.

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José held a faculty position in Music Composition at Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia from 2004 to 2010, where he also acted as Director of the Department of Music Composition. He received a BFA in Music Composition from California Institute of the Arts, and an MFA from San Diego State University in Computer Music Composition while also attending workshops with composers Pierre Boulez, Tristan Murail, James Tenney, Vinko Globokar and Toshio Hosokawa.

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Based in Miami since 2010, José performs his work, and directs a program dedicated to experimental music, and sound and new technologies at MUD Foundation.