CARLOS
SANDOVAL
(b. Mexico City) is a
freelance composer, musician and sound artist. For about
two decades, he has worked in computes-assisted
composition and performance. His actual setup is based on random-patches and stage-improvisation. As a composer, he has left behind
ideas of predetermination and control in favor of
a creative collaboration with stage-artists in general. He founded
The Tilt Group in 2005,
focused on technology, nature and gestures. He founded
also the
Interaktion
Festival in Berlin (2006), now in its third edition.
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). He has never submitted his works to composition
contests and has no relationship with academics, yet he has been teaching,
as freelancer, composition and
improvisation as complementary strategies at the UdK in Berlin .
He is based now in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany.
Text written
by Thomas
Wochnik and C.S.
Mail: sandome [at]
gmail [dot] com
Home-Studio:+49 (30) 61 70 20
77
Mobil: +49
(0) 177 599 46 24
Bills: Falckensteinstr. 8, 10997 Berlin.
ACTIVITIES 2009
(for more details click "projects" above left)
— February 3rd, Germany
/ Concert "Qu Trompa", German premiere
with Paul Hübner, with a short concert
introduction. BKA Berlin.
— 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 / ConcertE-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 video
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.
