Roy F Guzmán - Poet, conceptual and sonic artist, composer and improviser born and based in San Juan, Puerto Rico -1987. His compositions are primarily exploratory and work with alternative modes of musical communication and musical composition. Develops the use of sound scores within the concept of "transduction/abstraction" where the score can be anything and the composition lies in legends. He currently explores hyperchaos, "música a lo pobre", non-duality, multipolarity, axioms, Puerto Rican and Caribbean folklore and fictional artistic philosophy based on creative deductions from Taíno/Boricua abstract metaphysics.
He has performed and/or presented works in The Hague and Amsterdam- The Netherlands, Bratislava-Slovakia, Budapest-Hungary, Vienna-Austria, Rhode Island, Boston, New York, California, Banff-Canada, Poas-Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Switzerland.
Studies:
-2004-2006 - Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico studying with Luis Enrique Juliá and Leonardo Egúrbida Avilés.
-2006-2010 - Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts studying primarily with Mick Goodrick and Hal Crook among many others.
-2012-2015 - Institute of Sonology of The Hague
-summer of 2013 & 2014- Musique Et Recherche, Ohain, Belgium in the summer program with Benjamin Thigpen.
-2023 – Private composition lessons with Alfonso Fuentes and Manuel Ceide.
Festivals, Scholarships, Activities:
-2005-As a member of Orbits Quintet he recorded: 12-6-5 (Fall 2005)
-2006-Wins scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music
-2008-Wins Billboard Scholarship at Berklee College of Music presented each year to Berklee's most promising musician headed into their final year at the college.
-2008-Wins Jimmy Hendrix Award at Berklee presented to the college's top guitarist; at any one time, there are more than 1,000 guitar principals at Berklee.
-2008-Orbits Quintet attended jazz seminars at the Banff Centre in Canada with full scholarship support provided by Dave Douglas, Miguel Zenón, and the Banff Centre.
-2008-As a member of Orbits Quintet he recorded Desahogo(2008) at Banff Centre.
-2009-Plays at George Wein's Jazz Festival 55 in Newport, Rhode Island, previews Newport Jazz Festival, with Roy Guzman Quintet
-2009-Plays at Duke Ellington Jazz Festival in DC with Roy Guzman Quintet.
-2009-Plays at Monterey Jazz Festival with Roy Guzman Quintet.
-2009-Semi finalist in the Montreux International Guitar Competition in Switzerland.
-2010-Plays at Tigur Mares-Romania, Vienna-Austria and Budapest-Hungary with the jazz group of Marton Juhasz.
-2012-Record release of Marton Juhasz album Mirage(2012) where he records guitars and contributes two pieces (Libre) and (96) for two electric guitars, upright bass and drums.
-2012-Admitted to the Institute of Sonology one year course.
-2012-Admitted to Masters in Sonology with the research subject Chaotic Structures for all levels of sound and music composition, aesthetics, beauty and the “unsignified” which is a concept developed through the art book/thesis “A Thesis on _______”(2015).
-2014-Creates a non standard synthesis algorithm based on Xenakis Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis called Dynamic Chaotic Synthesis and Relational Chaotic Synthesis.
-2014-Composed sound work for NDT dancer Karyn Banquet presented at Korea Theatre in The Hague, The Netherlands.
-2015-Finishes the art book “A Thesis on ______”(2015) in Brussels, Belgium.
-2015-Residency in Sonoscopia, Porto, Portugal
-2015-Implements the use of soundscores for instrumental interpretation called Transduction as a metaphorical compositional reflection on the perception of the complex chaotic reality filtered through our senses.
-2015-Sound Installation at Villa K in The Hague, The Netherlands where the “Cubo De Chuito” spatialization program for n amount of speakers and speaker configuration was coded. Starts research on “plastic sound forms”.
-2015-Residency in Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, Sweden
-2016-Relocates to San Juan, Puerto Rico and maintains activity in the independent experimental and noise music scenes.
-2017-Creates first original one dimensional chaotic function - x = ([1.6...2.0] - x) * (2*x)
-2020-Selected for the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival-NYCEMF - New York
-2020-Creates his second chaotic function: x=0.5+x(-0.8)(x/[005..2.65]) and third chaotic function: x = 2.3 + (x1 *0.24) * (x1 *[-0.45...-0.86])
-2020-Releases the 5 hour piece “Axiomas Indígenas” in Archivo Veintidós – Chile
-2021-Creates his fourth chaotic function: x = (1.23 * (-1*(x1*(3.571)) * (0.0781))) + (2.71 * 1/x1)
-2021-Collaborates with acousmatic pieces in the exhibition “Mar Adentro” by Angel Borroto and Kivan Quiñones at the gallery :Pública in Miramar, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
-2021-Selected for the Sur Aural Festival - Sanar Sonar - Bolivia
-2021-Presented a work on an online gallery at Laboratorio de Experimentación Aeropuerto’s - México
-2021-Selected for Jack Quartet Studio - New York
-2021-Selected for the radio program “Electronic Frequencies” - The Netherlands
-2021-Starts teaching the class “Taller de Arte Sónico” at Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño of Puerto Rico.
-2022-Creates a workshop about “Música A Lo Pobre” in el MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico to teenage students.
-2022-Selected for Atemporánea Festival - Argentina
-2022/2023-Exhibition “La Casa Secreta” in :Pública 2022-2023 by Kiván Quiñones, Angel Borroto and Roy F Guzmán.
-2023-Selected for the VIII Festival de Música Acústica of Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile with the piece sin-título[02-0-29-21][2]
-2023 - Exhibition “Reporte Del Principio” in MMC - Módulo de Mejoramiento Comunitario in Rio Piedras with artist Alexandra Santos, Alfredo LLop, Angel Borroto and Roy F Guzmán
-2023-Selected for Tenor Boston 2023 - International Conference on Technologies of Music Notation and Representation with he piece using sound scores called “Abstractions del Jangueo en La Finca de Julio”
-2023 - Collaborated in Angel Borroto’s Exhibition “En Blanco y Negro” with the piece Mi Plena in the MMC - Módulo de Mejoramiento Comunitario
-2023-Selected for Máquina Simple Grants program by Beta Local with the help of the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
-2023-Selected for the UNDAE podcast section #261 and Radio Círculo broadcasted the 11 of April of 2023.
-2023-With the help of the grant Máquina Simple from Beta Local he creates a space in Rio Piedras called Instituto de Música por Computadora-(Institute of Computer Music) where he teaches subjects related to computer music and acousmatic music in a studio space with an octophonic sound system.
-2024 - Selected for presenting a piece in Sonic Matter Festival 2024 in Zurich, Switzerland.
