Carlos Sandoval, mexican composer living in Berlin.

His electronic and electro-acoustic pieces

“I will present two early works made in the UPIC computer and some recent DSP pieces. I will show some of my DSP techniques and I will perform a live-electronic piece for my gloves, manipulating objects. I will present also a rough panorama on electroacoustic music in Mexico”

Carlos Sandoval:

            BA (and quit) in composition, National School of Music, Mexico City.

            In order not to combine his creative work with his livelihood, he decides to make his living as a piano tuner and moved to New York City to study that craft. In 1980 he moved from New York to Vienna. Studied and worked at Bösendorfer. He continues working on composition and made also two one-person exhibitions (photography and drawing) in Vienna.

            1985-1990 studied privately with Estrada (theory, composition, analysis).

            1991-94 Nancarrow's assistant.

            Sandoval has composed mainly chamber, orchestral, electronic and electroacoustic music. In 1995 he finished a custom-made MIDI piano, developed in collaboration with Trimpin, in Seattle and Cuernavaca. He just finished a pair of MIDI sensored-gloves.

            Composer-in-residence in Les ateliers UPIC (1989-1990), at the Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik (1990), at Mr. Trimpin's studio (1994), at the Donaueschinger MusikTage (1994) and at the STEIM foundation (1996, 1999, 2005).

            Lectures in and out Mexico. Several articles and translations on music issues. Several scholarships and recognitions in and out Mexico.

            Sandoval has been curator of two exhibits-concerts-homage to Conlon Nancarrow in Mexico City (National University [1990] and National Fine Arts Institute [ISCM-World Music Days, 1993]). He was coordinator of the International Seminar "Year 2000: Music, Mathematics, Composition" (1990).

            He lives in Berlin since 2003