Carlos Sandoval — Live-performing Composer & Musician


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ENGLISH  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.

 
DEUTSCH  Carlos Sandoval (Mexico City, 1956) studierte Komposition in Mexiko und arbeitet seit 1989 als freischaffender Komponist. Zurzeit arbeitet er vor allem an elektronischer Musik und Improvisationsprozessen sowie der Manipulation gefundener Objekte. Sandoval selbst unterteilt sein musikalisches Schaffen in fünf Bereiche: Sound design, Klangspekulation, Improvisation, «klassische», geschriebene Kompositionen – und, fünftens, das Vermischen dieser Formen. Daneben schreibt und übersetzt er für Zeitungen, Zeitschriften und Verlage in Deutaschland und Mexiko – ausführlich studierte er etwa Werk und Leben von Conlon Nancarrow, für den er von 1991–1994 gearbeitet hatte –. Carlos Sandoval lebt in Berlin, wo er 2006 die tilt-group und 2007 das Interaktion Festival ins Leben rieff. Untericht bei der UdK in  Berlin.
 
ESPAÑOL  Carlos Sandoval (Ciudad de México, 1956) es compositor, músico y artista sonoro. Desde hace casi dos décadas ha trabajado en composición y ejecución musicales asistidas. Como compositor dejó atrás la predeterminación y el control en favor de una colaboración creativa con los ejecutantes.  Fundó la asociación civil THE TILT en 2005, grupo interdisciplinario enfocado en tecnología, naturaleza y gestos. También fundó en Berlín el Festival Interaktion en 2006, ahora en su tercera edición.

Disidente de la Escuela Nacional de Música (UNAM 1979), estudió posteriormente teoría y composición con J. Estrada (1985-90). También estudió diseño, construcción y afinación de pianos  en la Casa Bösendorfer  en Viena (1980-82)Fue asistente de Conlon Nancarrow (1991-94). Fue y es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores  (Mex. 1999-05 and 2008-11). No obstante que se ha mantenido alejado de la academia, ha impartido talleres de composición e improvisación en la Universidad de las Ares (Universität der nste ) en Berlin y otras institucione en México.

 
 

Studies


— 1985-90 Composition and theory with Estrada (National School of Music ENM, Mexico)

— 1979-82 Piano Tuning and construction (USA and Austria [by Bösendorfer] )

— 1975-79 BA in composition,  (ENM / Mexico)

    And several private composition and music-theory workshops with diverse composers and artists.

 

Activities Recent


2008 Lehrauftrag (composition and improvisation workshop), Universität der Künste, Berlin.

2007 Founded the Interaktion Festival in Berlin

2006 Founded The-Tilt Group in Berlin

 

Older times...

1990 Coordinator of  the International Seminar Year 2000: Music, Mathematics, Composition.

1991-94 Assistant Conlon Nancarrow  (Mexico).

1993 Curator of two Exhibit-Homages to C. Nancarrow in Mexico City (UNAM, 1990 and INBA, ISCM-World Music Days). 

Since 1993, seminaries and workshops on C. Nancarrow’s music

Since 1999, seminaries and workshops on composition in several music schools, in-out Mexico.

1984-92 Teacher of piano tuning and construction (ENM)

I have written and/or translated books and articles on musical theory, composition and analysis.

 

Scholarships


2009:

European Union, "Soziale Stadt", comission for Baumberauschen 2

— SNCA Music-composition fellowship, 2008-2011.

 

2008:

— INM, Initiative Neue Musik. Fiancial support for the Interaktion Festival 2

— SNCA Music-composition fellowship, 2008-2001.

— Ensemble Mosaik (Comission)

— Universität der Künste, Berlin, Komposition Lehrauftrag

 

2007:

— Bezirkamt Neukölln (Sound installation)

— Ensemble Mosaik (performance-composition)

Initiative Neue Musik (Festival Interaktion 1)

5+1, TU Studio-Senats (comission)  

 

2006:

Sonic Garden Lab, GSLI, Italy (Sotavento)

Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin (The Birth of a Ship)

Secretaría de Cultura - Gobierno de San Luis Potosí, Mexico (Sotavento)

TU Studio, Technische Univertität, Germany (The Birth of a Ship)

Deutsches TechnikMuseum Berlin, Germany The Birth of a Ship)

 

2005-2000:

2005: STEIM, Holland (Gloves)

2004: KulturBehörde Hamburg, Germany (Mextoys)

2002-05: SNC, Mexico

2001: Conaculta / CNA / INBA, Mexico (Música sin Fronteras: a music book for children)

2000: H. Ayuntamiento de Jiutepec, La Pasión Según la gente.

 

1999-96:

1999: FONCA Morelos, Mexico (3 pieces for cello and piano) 1-year scholarship

1999-01: FONCA / Sistema Nacional de Creadores (SNC), Mexico.

1999: STEIM (Stichting voor Elektro Intrumentale Musiek), Holland (Gloves 70% Sensorlab cost)

1999: PACMyC / ICM, Mexico (La Pasión según la gente)

1996: STEIM, Holand (Gloves, travel expanses and lodging)

 

1995:

FONCA-Morelos, Mexico

FONCA-D.F., Mexico (translation) monthly scholaship for 2 years

UNAM (ENM / CH), Mexico

 

1994-80:

1994: Donaueschinger Musiktage Donaueschingen, Germany, travel expanses and lodging

1991: Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres Paris, France (UPIC) Travel expanses and lodging

1990: Internationale Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany 

1989: DGAPA/UNAM, Mexico (UPIC)

1989: AFFA, France (UPIC)

1980-82: Bösendorfer klavierfabrik A.G:, Austria (piano construction)

1980-82: Fonapas, Mexico (piano construction) scholarship for 2 years

 

Residences


— 2005  TU studio, Berlin, Technische Universität

— 2005  STEIM Foundation, Holland (Gloves)

1999  STEIM Foundation, Holland (Gloves)

1996  STEIM Foundation, Holland (Gloves)

1994  RDP-Trimpin Studio, USA (project: Fast Piece2 and MIDI piano)

1990  Les ateliers UPIC, France (Homenaje)

1989  Les ateliers UPIC, France (Lomos)

 

Festivals


2009

48 Stunden Neukölln, Naturban, Berlin, Germany

Festival de San Luis, SLP, Mexico

Why Note Festival, Dijon, France

Interaktion 2 Festival, Berlin, Germany

Hochschule für Musik, Reihe "Musik & Gegenwart", Leipzig, Germany

 

2008

1. Festival für Gegenwärtige Musik und Grafik. DE

Open Sources, DE

Impresiones Sonoras, Komposition und Kulturelle Identität.in Lateinamerika Heute. DE

 

2007

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK (Festival Highlight)

Interaktion 1, DE

5+1, DE

Open Sources, DE

Langer Tag der Stadtnatur, DE

 

2006-03

2006: Festival Eigenarten, Hamburg (Tilts)

2006: Sonic Garden Lab, GSLI (Sotavento)

2006: VI Festival de San Luis (Sotavento) (Festival Highlight)

2004: Festival Eigenarten, Hamburg (checkpoint hope)

2003: DAFx-03, 6th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (mextoys)

2003: Kraakgeluiden, Amsterdam (mextoys)

2003: Festival Eigenarten, Hamburg (mextoys)

2003: Foro internacional de Música Nueva, Mexico (8to)

 

2002-92

2002: Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica, Cuba. (CoroMd-01)

2002: Festival RADAR, Mexico (CcMd-01)

2002: Foro Internacional de Música Nueva, Mexico (Ginantria)

2001: La Nueva Cosa, México (La Pasion según la gente) (Festival Highlight)

1994: Donaueschinger MusikTage, Germany (Fast Piece for player piano)

1993: World Music Days, Mexico (Curator on Nancarrow)

1992: Ferien Kurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt (Ginantria)