Nationality Colombian Known for Music Composition | Name Juan Vasquez Role Composer | |
Full Name Juan Carlos Vasquez | ||
Juan carlos vasquez collage 5 the acrobat
Juan Carlos Vasquez (born September 14, 1986) is a Colombian composer and sound artist.
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Vasquez has participated as a sonic artist, composer and/or performer in events within the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, France, Finland, Austria, Greece, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile, including an acclaimed interactive installation for the Milan Furniture Fair in (Italy) - the largest fair of its kind in the world - reviewed as "one of the most eye-catching sights of the fair" by The Architects' Journal, while working as a sound director for a research project at the Pilot University of Colombia. In 2013 composed the music for the interdisciplinary work Emperors for Tea by Olympic artist Clare Newton and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in partnership with the Royal College of Music selected him as one of the winners for the "Rhapsody Composition Project", to write under commission the sonic counterpart for the monumental sculpture "The Acrobat", by Allen Jones (sculptor) RA. The Grammy-winning American composer Eric Whitacre was linked to this project as ambassador
In 2014, the Sibelius Birth Town Foundation, Sibhack and the Ateneum Museum commissioned Vasquez to compose an electroacoustic rendition to Jean Sibelius' Romance Op. 24 No.9, as part of the official 150th anniversary of the Finnish composer's birth. The "Sibelius Collage" was premiered on October 2014 at the museum's Auditorium.
His music has been featured on hour-long specials by leading radio art / electroacoustic music radio stations, such as Resonance FM (Clearspot – UK), BCB 106.6fm (The Sound Art Show – UK), Basic.FM and Radio Círculo (UNDAE – Spain).
Other spaces supporting the diffusion of his work include the University of Kent (Symposium of Acoustic Ecology), Wesleyan University (Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States 2014 National Conference), The New York Public Library (Kinokophonography), Leeds College of Music (International Festival for Artistic Innovation), Queen's University, Belfast (Sonorities 2014), Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012, The Savoy Hotel (Emperors for Tea), Florida International University (New Music Miami Festival), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Deep Listening Institute and the Electronic Language International Festival (FILE – Brazil).
Vasquez is also known for being the creative force behind Legacy of Fire, an industrial metal band