Roy Fernando Guzmán Rodríguez

Roy Fernando Guzmán Rodríguez
Biography	Roy Fernando Guzmán Rodríguez (*1987) is a composer of experimental, contemporary and algorithmic instrumental and electronic music, sound artist, improviser and poet born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Guzmán Rodríguez uses algorithmic procedures to create musical structures. His works revolve around the topics of chaos theory, axiomatic music and the investigation of different timbres, the abstraction of sound scores in instrumental music, and what he calls «Música A Lo Pobre» («Poor music»). The latter explores the resilience and creativity that emerge as a reaction to the precarious nature of the socio-economical and cultural systems in Puerto Rico and Latin America, and the aesthetics that are born from it. These contrasts with the reductionist tendency of postulating an abstract universal concept of «folklore», understood as comprising a limited palette of elements, from instrumentation to musical sound content. As a sound artist, he is interested in the research of Plastic Sound Forms, a field where the illusion of plasticity in sound is explored in order to create solid sonic forms in 3D space. Guzmán Rodríguez is also guitarist and cuatro player as well as an improviser. He is a founding member of the Puerto Rican experimental folkloric trio called Abolengo and founder of the Puerto Rican Collective of Experimental Music (Colectivo de Música Experimental de Puerto Rico), with whom he keeps himself continuously active in the experimental music scene in Puerto Rico. He has performed and presented works in The Hague and Amsterdam, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna, Rhode Island, Boston, New York, California, Banff, as well as in Argentina, Chile and Mexico. ABOUT Roy Fernando Guzmán Rodriguez: «sin-título[11-06-21][4]» This piece is a generative algorithmic piece constructed with sounds of a non-standard synthesis program that uses chaotic functions to control waveform parameters thus constructing the waveforms. This non standard synthesis program called Dynamic Chaotic Synthesis was a work done in my master’s studies back in 2015 where I was investigating Iannis Xenakis Dynamic Chaotic Synthesis. Instead of points on a window scale I decided to control the frequency, the local amplitude and the sign of the generated waveform algorithm with custom chaotic functions. The result of this sounds were very varied from light high frequency sounds to the low frequency rumble and all in between. There were some periodic rhythmic sounds as well given that chaotic functions tend to have some periodic sequential sections. I had stored all these sounds for future use and in 2021 I decided to use this sounds in an algorithmic structure I worked on for a year where dynamic and gestural sounds were a main theme as well as sequential events and geometric proportional sequences.
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Biography

Roy Fernando Guzmán Rodríguez (*1987) is a composer of experimental, contemporary and algorithmic instrumental and electronic music, sound artist, improviser and poet born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Guzmán Rodríguez uses algorithmic procedures to create musical structures. His works revolve around the topics of chaos theory, axiomatic music and the investigation of different timbres, the abstraction of sound scores in instrumental music, and what he calls «Música A Lo Pobre» («Poor music»). The latter explores the resilience and creativity that emerge as a reaction to the precarious nature of the socio-economical and cultural systems in Puerto Rico and Latin America, and the aesthetics that are born from it. These contrasts with the reductionist tendency of postulating an abstract universal concept of «folklore», understood as comprising a limited palette of elements, from instrumentation to musical sound content. As a sound artist, he is interested in the research of Plastic Sound Forms, a field where the illusion of plasticity in sound is explored in order to create solid sonic forms in 3D space.
Guzmán Rodríguez is also guitarist and cuatro player as well as an improviser. He is a founding member of the Puerto Rican experimental folkloric trio called Abolengo and founder of the Puerto Rican Collective of Experimental Music (Colectivo de Música Experimental de Puerto Rico), with whom he keeps himself continuously active in the experimental music scene in Puerto Rico. He has performed and presented works in The Hague and Amsterdam, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna, Rhode Island, Boston, New York, California, Banff, as well as in Argentina, Chile and Mexico.

ABOUT Roy Fernando Guzmán Rodriguez: «sin-título[11-06-21][4]»

This piece is a generative algorithmic piece constructed with sounds of a non-standard synthesis program that uses chaotic functions to control waveform parameters thus constructing the waveforms. This non standard synthesis program called Dynamic Chaotic Synthesis was a work done in my master’s studies back in 2015 where I was investigating Iannis Xenakis Dynamic Chaotic Synthesis. Instead of points on a window scale I decided to control the frequency, the local amplitude and the sign of the generated waveform algorithm with custom chaotic functions. The result of this sounds were very varied from light high frequency sounds to the low frequency rumble and all in between. There were some periodic rhythmic sounds as well given that chaotic functions tend to have some periodic sequential sections. I had stored all these sounds for future use and in 2021 I decided to use this sounds in an algorithmic structure I worked on for a year where dynamic and gestural sounds were a main theme as well as sequential events and geometric proportional sequences.

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