Carlos Sandoval — Live-performing Composer & Musician

 
 

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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 Bösendorfer House 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 10th, Germany/ Workshop  Improvisation — Composition workshop, Winter semester —  Universität der Künste, Berlin. Closing  concert with my students at Wendel, 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. 16th, France / Concert  "Pf-Md-01", Piece for piano and tape with Wihelm Latchoumia, piano.   Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord,  French Premiere.

— 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 26th, Spain/ round-table around machines and music, IN SONORA V, en Intermediale — Ars Automata, Madrid. Matadero Intermediae. 19:00
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)

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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.

   
 
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  Last Update: Aug. 2009