Juan J.G. Escudero
*21 March 1958
Works by Juan J.G. Escudero
Biography
Juan José García Escudero is a composer and researcher based in Madrid (Spain). He received his musical education at several centers and conservatoires and studied composition with Francisco Guerrero Marín in Madrid. He has carried out research and teaching activities in mathematics, physics and music technology at various universities. The results of his studies in the fields of algebra, geometry and astronomy - published in scholarly journals and books - have been some of the main guides to formalization procedures. Harmonizations of aperiodic ordered temporal sequences, which constitute the basis of formal and rhythmic structures play a major role in many of his instrumental and acousmatic works. More recent formal approaches are related to the analysis of topological invariants of aperiodic tiling spaces and the construction of singular hypersurfaces in algebraic geometry. Extramusical influences are connected mainly with philosophy, poetry and visual arts. His music has been programmed in international festivals and concerts in Europa and America.
About the music
“We are thus plunged into a primitive, pre-Cambrian textural sea, made up of
thousands of micro-organisms moving and manifesting themselves, only to
disappear immediately before us” Frédéric Cardin
Some rhizomatic connections between music and mathematics are explored. Harmonizations of aperiodic ordered temporal sequences, which are on the basis of the formal and rhythmic structures, play a major role in several of the instrumental and acousmatic works. The descriptions of both random tilings and variable star light curves in terms of word sequences in formal grammars have been significant in relation to musical form, providing a multidimensional space of textures and motivating organic links between musical materials at different temporal scales. Also projections in two dimensions of certain algebraic hypersurfaces with many singularities inhabiting spaces in dimensions higher than three have played a certain role in the generative and metamorphosing procedures.
