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mex.toys1
Carlos Sandoval - emodnas@yahoo.de
program notes
mex.toys1
for percussion, mexican toys, tape and optional live video (Ca. 9:00)
Some citations by the composer:
"mex.toys1 does integrate mexican popular culture elements with contemporary art. The chaos and the overlapping of perceptual strata plays for me AND for the audience a kind of complex inspiration not seen very often. My work is a point of departure both fantastic and known. It is also, ironically, a defined but impredictable arquetype"
"When a child plays with a mechanical sonorous toy, is the sound part of the game or is just an invisible part of the toy? I just questioned this myself some time ago, seated in a park in Mexico. mex.toys1 is an extension of these meandering thougths. By the way, when this child plays with a mechanical toy (he has to trigger it, for the toy to do something) Does his movements become more mechanical than normal, when he eats, walks, or take a shower? I hope the performer would ask this question while he performs my piece."
"These toys reminds me some of the Leonardo da Vincis inventions. For instance, his drums played mechanically on a wheelbarrow with cogged wheels. Also his bicycle, his helicopter and his ship, all drove with pedals. There are other diverse and beautiful mechanical musical instruments made by Da Vinci. As gentle Renaissance man, he was a defender of machines as positive extensions of the human body, not as slavering mechanisms. I love these Mexican toys also because of their iconography, at the same time traditional, contemporary and fantastic and they conserve also a profound humanistic character"
"Mex.toys is a hearing and visual experience in which diverse facets of mexican popular culture are presented, using a quite contemporary art resources palette. It is not a reportage, it is an abstraction, an interpretation, an artistic especulation in which all possible ambitus are possible within a ludic context"
bio
Born in Mexico CIty in 1956.
BA Studies (in composition) but quit just before finished, at the Escuela Nacional de Musica, in Mexico City. In order not to combine his creative work with his livelihood, he decided to make his living as a piano tuner, and moved to New York to study craft. Piano tuning, instead of academic studies, do change radically his way of listen and understand music.
In 1980 he moved from New York to Vienna. He worked at Bosendorfer. At te same time he worked also in composition and graphics (he made two one-person exhibits with his photographs and drawings, his juvenile passions). He didnt have any relationship with Viennas musical life.
He moved back to Mexico in 1982. From 1986 to 1990 he made in-depth individual studies with Estrada (theory, composition and analy-sis) and renounces to any other creative activity. In 1989 meets Conlon Nancarrow and his music; an insightful friendship began, also with a labor profile: he was his assistant from 1990 until 1994.
He has composed mainly chamber and electronic music. His actual interest is focused in computer-assisted composition.
He has been curator of two important exhibits-concerts-homages to Mr. 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. Has been com-poser-in-residence at Les ateliers UPIC (1989, 1990); at Mr. Trimpin's studio (1994); at the Donaueschinger MusikTage (1994) and te STEIM Foundation (1996, 1999). He has received several scholarships in and out Mexico and belongs the Sistema Nacional de Creadores since 1999. His music has been played in Cuba, France, England, Germany, Holand, Canada and Mexico. He lives in Berlin.
web site: www.carlos-sandoval.de
e-mail : emodnas@yahoo.de
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