Juan Garcia Escudero (Hoyales, Burgos, Spagna 1958)

First musical studies in COUL of Cheste and UL of Tarragona. After an autodidact period he continues his formation in Conservatories of Cordoba, Teruel and Madrid where he studied composition mainly with Francisco Guerrero, who was of decisive importance. His music has been programmed in international festivals and concert cycles in Europe and America. He has published several works on the interactions of mathematics and music. Although he used recursive procedures based on fractals in works like Vuelo (1988) for harpsichord, techniques of discrete geometry and formal grammars, that he has developed in a different context, are guides of the formalization procedures since La Tierra Uberrima (1993) for string quartet. Harmonizations of aperiodic temporal sequences, which are the basis of the formal and rhythmic structures, play a major role in Imagenes (1995) for two pianos or Ad Matutinum (2001) for mixed choir . These methods have been extended to the timbric domain in Estudio del Tiempo Iluminado II (1997) for computer generated tape and Invertida Raiz (2000) for tape and nine instrumentalists where instrumental and temporal spectra interact. In his last works he is exploring the confluence of poetic and philosophic spaces (Valente, Deleuze,...) together with techniques of discrete geometry and astronomy.

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