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. He develops the use of sound scores within the concept of "transduction/abstraction". He currently explores spectral music using non standard synthetic chaotic function's sonic spectrum as base material, "música a lo pobre", non-duality, multipolarity, axioms, Puerto Rican and Caribbean folklore in contemporary classical music 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, Ecuador, Colombia, Italy and Switzerland.
Participation in festivals and selected artistic activities:
2014 Commissioned by former Netherlands Dance Theater’s dancer Karyn Banquet to compose an acousmatic work in collaboration with Banquet’s choreography presented in Korzo Theater titled “Sorrow” - https://royguzman.bandcamp.com/track/sorrow
2015 residency in Sonoscopia in Porto, Portugal - https://royguzman.bandcamp.com/album/porto
2015 residency in Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, Sweden - https://royguzman.bandcamp.com/album/stockholm
2020 Selected for NYCEMF – New York, USA - https://nycemf.org/219_sinx-mastered/ - https://nycemf.org/2020-virtual-festival-works/
2021 Presented works in México in an online exhibition of Laboratorio de Experimentación Aeropuerto. http://aeropuertolaboratorio.xyz/ - https://royguzman.bandcamp.com/album/05-25-20
2021 Starts teaching the class MOV125 “Taller de Arte Sónico”(Sonic Art’s Workshop) at Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño of Puerto Rico. - https://mov125-arte-sonico-eapd.bandcamp.com/album/mov125-ene-may-2024
2021 Selected for Sur Aural Festival – Sanar Sonar – Bolivia - criollo-yu-ita[05-04-21][3] - https://soundcloud.com/sur-aural/transmision-12-sanar-sonar
2021 Selected for Jack Quartet Studio Composers - New York - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdOa-HhCRN0
2021 Featured artist at the web radio program “Electronic Frequencies” - The Netherlands - https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/595939/?fbclid=IwAR1TcwU0GBb3nbkY3SMOjjBf0pR02rprzxBJl2pZtcvrHtkRM9shgNFMrGw
2021 , Exhibition “Mar Adentro by Angel Borroto, and Kivan Quiñores. Music by Roy F Guzmán. - https://royguzman.bandcamp.com/album/exibici-n-adentro- angel- borroto-y-kivan-qui-ones-m-sica-roy-f-guz
2022 As part of “Jóvenes Líderes” program of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), he created workshops about Música A Lo Pobre for highschool students. - https://royguzman.bandcamp.com/album/concierto-del- taller-m-sica-a-lo-pobre-con-el-cmepr
2022/2023 Exhibition “La Casa Secreta” in :Pública 2022-2023 by Kiván Quiñones, Angel Borroto and Roy F Guzmán
2022 Selected for Atemporánea 2022 - III Festival de Música Contemporánea del Conservatorio Astor Piazzola– Argentina - https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci4tA1SuLv3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
2023 Selected for VIII Festival de Música Acústica of Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile - https://musica.uc.cl/publicaciones/viii-festival-de-musica-electroacustica/
2023 Selected for International Conference on Technologies of Music Notation and Representation with he piece using sound scores called “Abstractions del Jangueo en La Finca de Julio” for the ensemble Loadbang. - https://tenorboston23.sites.northeastern.edu/performances/
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 2024
2023 Selected for Sonic Matter Festival 2024 in Zurich, Switzerland. https://desartsonnants.wordpress.com/2023/12/03/sonic-matter-electroacoustic-music-listening-lounge-on-air/
2024 Contributes to Arte Natura 2024 El Yunke with “Menor Axiomático” and “Pa el arbolito de Migdalia” in conversation with the work “Fallen Landscapes” of the multidisciplinary artist Migdalia Luz Baréns. - https://royguzman.bandcamp.com/album/instalaci-n-sonora-menor-axiom-tico-para-fallen-landscape-de-migdalia-luz-bar-ns-en-el-yunke
2024 Selected for the call for scores of New Third Space Ensemble with the work “Pa Sexteto” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apM1zR7EzmI
2024 Selected for Empirica call for Acousmatic works 2024, Italy - https://www.instagram.com/p/DCKY0NINexK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
2024 Selected for MusLab Festival in Quito, Ecuador - March 1st, 2024.
2024 Selected for Transversal Sonora, Sonidos en Diálogo, Colombia - https://www.instagram.com/p/DCcDf_4Rr4z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
