Is a freelance composer,
performer and multimedia artist. He has been working in computer-assisted
composition and performance for about two decades. His actual
performance-setup is based on tactile-sensors and randomized
sound-banks improvisation. He arouses also
living
trees to improvise suiting them with accelerometers, in
site-specific sound installations. As Siko Namias, he is photographer and
video artist. He founded
The Tilt Group in
2005 (focused on technology, nature and art). He
founded also the
Interaktion Festival in Berlin. The last two years
Sandoval has been focused into the joint music & video.
Dissident at the
Mexican National School of Music, later he
privately studied composition and theory with J. Estrada
(1985-90). He studied also piano-design
& tuning at the BösendorferHouse
in Vienna (1980-82). He was Conlon
Nancarrow’s assistant (1991-94) and is now a SNCA fellow
(Mex. 1999-05 and 2008-11, 2012- 14). He has never submitted
his works to composition contests and has no
relationship with academics, yet he has been teaching
composition and improvisation as complementary
strategies at the UdK in Berlin. He resides in
Berlin, Germany. His music has been premiered and
broadcasted in countless festivals, forums, radio
programs, train stations and parks in several
(even colonized!) countries.
Text written
by Thomas
Wochnik and
C.S.
Mail:
sandome [at] gmail
[dot] com
Photos by Sofía
Torre,
Berenice Ammann,
Bryan Slatter, & Prokop Atari
NEWS & ACTIVITIES
2011
"Pages Acoustics"
Guitar.
With Christelle Sery. Takemistsu, Dao,
Rougier, Liao, Leroux, Sandoval.
("Petenera", for guitar, toy guitar,
tuningfork and tape).XTL001/1 SACEM.
"Petenera"
Guitar, toy guitar, tuning fork and
tape, with Christelle Sery.
Music Forum Taipei, Taiwan. 15th October.
SNCA's
fellow 2011-2014. The SNCA is a federal Mexican,
cultural, non-academic institution supporting the work of
Mexican Artists residing in Mexico or
abroad. Ca. 180 artists were selected
this year. The "Sistema" is
unique, worldwide. Period.
My fellowships: 1999-05, 2008-11, and
2012-2014. This information is
public.
"Lips",
with Almut Kühne.
Voice, video & gloves with sensors. Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance. September 25th(LEAP) Berlin. Supported by the New
Spectrum Foundation (UK).
Qu Trompa, with Paul Hübner.
September 17, "Neue
und Alte Musik im Wasserwerk
Friedrichshagen". Hallig, Berlin,
Germany
Qu Trompa, with Paul Hübner,
Center for Advanced Musical Studies,
Chosen Vale, USA.
A soul playing with water in a
cemetery in Berlin. Berlin, Summer
2011.
Mexico City. Concert with "Generación Espontánea"
at the National School of Music UNAM.
Spring 2011. Video by Neto Mendez.
Sound design and music. "Circo della
Pace"Berlin-Italy, Spring 2011.
Children
from Afghanistan exhibited their work in
the Circus of Peace in Bagnacavallo
(close to Ravenna, Italy), December 18th
until January 6th, 2011. Entry fees went
directly to the M.M.C.C. , their
organization in Kabul. Shooting and
editing by Nat Wilms, 2010-2011. Sound
design and music by Carlos Sandoval,
2011
Sound design and music. 2011. "Magic
Spell 1", by Nat Wilms 2010.
Sound design and music.
"Heirs
of wind" (magic spell #2) by Nat Wilms, Bologna Italy,
2011
ACTIVITIES
2010
Germany, October. "Tai Ji"
Creative non- fiction.
Germany, September.
Entrevista
a Carlos Sandoval: "El orden de las
cosas (parte 1)" By
Maru Ituarte.
(Interview in Spanish,
part One, Ca. 22 min.)
August 29th, Germany/ "Qu" . With
Paul
Hübner.
Hauptbahnhof, Oldenburg. NME Video
Award
July 30th and 31st, Germany
/ Performance at the DanceKiosk
Festival.
"El instrumento" German premiere,
with Trinidad Martinez.
Dancekiosk Festival, Hamburg.
June 15th, Germany/
"Klangkaskaden1" . 22 Summer haikus,
Sound, Wind, Water and a Tree. A
japanesse Chappel. Die Insel, Berlin.
May 13th, Mexico/ "Doña Soco, su hija y el
pollo, traslapes sonoros y otras averiguaciones
previas de Willy Terrazas y Carlos Sandoval" . With
Willy Terrazas and Misha Marks. MUAC-UNAM, 18:00
Mexico City.
—
February 15.th /
Article "Heimat? Identität?"
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 1 - 2009 p.p.
40-45. The German translation of my article
"Composición y
Colonialismo hoy? Finally published in Germany.
— February 25th, Germany / Concert "Qu
Trompa", Piece for trumpet, water, saliva and
tape, with
Paul Hübner
— Studiobühne, Brandenburger
theater, Brandenburg, Havel.
—
February 28th, Germany
/ Festival
INTERAKTION 2 1ST CITY BATTLE OF
IMPROVISED MUSIC, 120 submissions. 16 selected
musicians in 8 random duos, two prizes. Haus
der Sinne, Berlin.
—
March. 17th, France / Concert "Pf-Md-01",
Piece for piano and tape with
Wihelm Latchoumia, piano
Carré Saint Vincent, Scène Nationale, Orléans, W.L.,
piano. Repetition.
—
April 15th, Online
/ Interview FL
Spectro, "Joysticks, de Carlos Sandoval,
en el Festival de San Luis" Interview in Blogger.
In Spanish
—
April 15th, Online
/Interview
by
FL
Spectro, "Die basta Zeiten sind vorbei, de
Carlos Sandoval, en el Festival de San Luis"
Interview in Blogger.
In Spanish
— April 9th, Online
/ Interview
by
Thomas
Wochnik
"Carlos
Sandoval, Setting in Motion", Composer´s
portrait at Cast Your Art. Two
parts:
—
April. 22th, Mexico / Concert
"Die
Basta Zeiten sind Vorbei", Mexican Premiere with
the Ensemble Mosaik, Zócalo,
Downtown Oaxaca, after a danzón concert.
—
April. 25th, Mexico / Concert
"Die
Basta Zeiten sind Vorbei", with the Ensemble
Mosaik, Festival de San Luis, Laberinto para la
ciencias y las Artes, San Luis Potosi. Festival
cancelled due to the "swine flu outbrake".
— April. 27th, Mexico / Concert
"Die
Basta Zeiten sind Vorbei", with the Ensemble
Mosaik, Querétaro City. Concert cancelled due to the
"swine flu outbrake".
— May 2nd, Mexico
/ Concert "Joysticks"
for childrenchoir, percusssion and live-electroncis,
Festival de San Luis, San Luis Potosí,
With The Tilt Group. Festival cancelled due to the
"swine flu outbrake".
— May 17th, France
/ Concert
"Petenera"For Guitar, Tuning fork, Toy guitar and Tape, with Christelle Sery, "Printems - Why Note" Festival,
Dijon.
—
June
10th, Germany / Concert E-Mariachi with
Jose Garcia and Hugo Morales, Berlin. Live
electronics, free improvisation.
Tee- und Kunsthaus
Tschaikowsky.
—
June
11th,
Germany / Concert
E-Mariachi
with Jose Garcia and Hugo Morales, Berlin. Live
electronics, free improvisation. Wendel.
—
June
15th, Germany / Concert
"Qu
Trompa",
with Paul Hübner, Hochschule
für Musik, Reihe "Musik & Gegenwart", Leipzig.
—
June 27th,
Germany
/ Concert
"Umgebung",
Nano-opera for children and chamber ensembles,
Naturban, 48 Stunden Neuköln.
Workshops and concert. Berlin.
—
July 2nd, Germany
/ Interview by Stephanie Kussina,
RBB, Radio Broadcasted in Brandemburg.
— July 6-7th, Germany / Workshop
"Kiel-Projekt",
improvisation-composition workshops with the
Ensamble Mosaik, "Chiffren",
Kiel.
— July 15th, Germany /
Kötter, Daniel & Rojas, Alina, "Arbeit
und Freizeit 2" "Fiesta y Trabajo 2",
Video-scan about my daily work with gloves and
sensors, used for the project, among other video
scannings from other artists.
— September 17-18th, Germany
/ Concert "Kiel Projekt",
closing concert, with
the Ensemble Mosaik, "Chiffren",
Kiel.
— September 23th, Germany
/ Concert with Hilary Jeffery,
trombone.
Die Remise im Sommercamp at Maria am
Ostbahnhof , Berlin.
— September 30th, Germany
/ Concert "Uwe Schenk trifft"
concert series. with the "USt Hausband":
Uwe Schenk,
piano, Torsten
Krill, percussion and
Markus Kössler,
doublebass.
Also Andreas Vogel, animation and Uwe Kassei, Video.
"Tonstudio",
Stuttgart.
— June 11th, Germany
/ Sound Installation "Baumberauschen".
Tree-Installation in Kreuzberg. With
The Tilt Group. (Until Ca. SEP 30th) Berlin.
— November 27th, Spain/ Lecture on Nancarrow
and my last works.
Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, 12:00
—
November 27th,
Spain/ Interview by Antonio Vicente and
María Álvarez de Olate. www.rtve.es. Instituto
Radio Televisión Española.
Program "Travesias".
(Iván Ferrer and Alberto Bernal were also
interviewed.
— December 15th, Germany/ Video "Dream"
Documentary-Fiction. Watch the vide
here
— December 15th, Germany/ Video "La
Pasión según la Gente".
Documentary-Fiction. Watch the video
here
— December 15th, Germany/ Video "Doña
Soco, her Mother and the Chicken". Three
non-fiction portraits. Watch the video
Here
— December 16th, Germany/ Concert with
Hilary Jeffery
(trombone),
Ligia
Liberatori (Voice and objects),
Martin Reimann
(Soundscapes) and C.S. (GLoves), making
the music in real time for the film "Eindringlinge—
41 Sudwest" by Martin Reimann and
Sami-Ala-eddin. Wendel, Berlin Ca. 22:00
— December 26th-30th, Spain/ Music for a
workshop Curso de danza/movimiento by Trinidad
Martínez, FA (Foro Artístico). Also music for the
contact-improvisation jams, Dec. 12th, 19th and
26th, FA.
