Wingel Mendoza
Sonidos de la Materia – interactive improvisation Hochschule für Musik Mainz, Germany
03.11.2022
Wingel Mendoza - Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2020 – 2023
Meisterschülerstudium Klangkunst-Komposition
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, University of Music Mainz, Germany
2017 – 2020
Master degree – Sound Art Composition (M. Mus.)
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, University of Music Mainz, Germany
2014 – 2017
Meisterklasse Music Composition
University of Music, Würzburg, Germany
2012 – 2014
Master degree – Music Composition (M. Mus.)
Codarts Rotterdam – University of Arts Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007 – 2009
Bachelor degree – Music Composition
Study and research centre of Music, Mexico City, Trinity College London
1999 – 2003
Bachelor degree – Musicology, Criticism and Literature in Music (AmusTCL)
Study and research centre of Music, Mexico City, Trinity College London
RECENT PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS
2025
– 47th International Forum for New Music, Mexico.
Place: Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts (CMMAS)
Piece: Piel de cerámica for Ambisonic system
– KlangKunst in Industriekultur
Place: Wasserturm Mühlheim am Main, Germany
Piece: Murmurs for 5 E-guitars, 1 microphone, Machine learning, lights and feedback-system.
– International drone day (performance)
Place: Walpodenakademie Mainz, Germany
Piece: to Éliane Radigue
– Blaues Rauschen 25, Data Ethics and Creative Practice
Place: Pavillon (Philharmonie). Essen, Germany
Piece: Impulses of the subterranean darkness
– [ARTIFICIAL] TERRITORIES
Place: DAS LOT, Vienna, Austria
Piece: Ceramic Skin for Machine listening, machine learning, live electronics and live video
– Sound art meets ceramic
Place: Art room Produzentengalerie Wiesbaden, Germany
Piece: Ceramic Skin for Machine listening, machine learning, live electronics and live video
– There is a Ghost in the Room
Place: Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany
Piece: Activation of the artwork Requiem (Ouija) by Ari Benjamin Meyers. Text generated by AI, performance and programming by Wingel Mendoza
2024
– SEIN ||LASSEN
Piece: Paper Tides (2024)
Real-time weather data (Raspberry Pi – Python), wax paper, 2 lights, Arduino and ventilator.
25.10.24 – 28.11.24
Place: Walpodenakademie
Neubrunnenstraße 8, 55116 Mainz
– A noite
Place: Martín Códax Auditorium
Vigo, Spain
Place: Navarra Museum
Pamplona, Spain
Piece: Abyss for Percussion quartet, punch sensors, light and live electronics.
Ensemble: Vertixe Sonora
Percussion players:
Karen Yu, David Rodríguez, Pablo Paz y Diego Ventoso, percusión
Video and electronics.
Iván Ferrer-Orozco,
– Pair Public
Place: PAiR Artist in residency. Paviliosta, Latvia
Piece: Temporal Mantra series
Temporal Mantra (Serching) for Intarective real-time audio synthesis and real-time video.
Temporal Mantra (connecting) for Video processing and live electronics
Temporal Mantra Sound dairy: Text.
Temporal Mantra (Memory) Sound Sculpturefor objects, projection and live electronics
Temporal Mantra (Diary Sound Performance) for objects and live electronics
– ElternLiebe – Eine Geschichte vom Lebenszyklus
Place: Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg
Piece: Wiegenlied for Soprano und Klavier
– Peter Roehr – Sounds like …? Looks like …?
Place: Kunsthalle Wiesbaden
Piece: Homage to Peter Roehr: Tonmontagen Interactive sound sculpture for(5 Cassette Players, one catalogue of Peter Roehr, arranged in 6 tables
– Kunsthalle Mainz, Ari Benjamin Meyers – Always Rehearsing
Place: Kunsthalle Mainz
Piece: Activation of “Requiem”
– Walhalla im exil, Wiesbaden, Germany
Piece: Was man sät
Music composition and live performance by Wingel Mendoza
– Rundgang 2024
Place: Kunsthochschule Mainz, An der Johannes Gutenberg Universität. Deutschland.
Selina Hammer || Wingel Mendoza
Piece: Fire’s Memory Info
– Walpodenakademie. Maniz, Germany.
Schöne Welt du gingst in Fransen – NOT THE END. Collective exhibition
– SOIRÉE SONIQUE #83, LTK4. Cologne, Germany
Piece : Insects, 3 objects with DIY circuits
– Sozialistischer Salon #2
Place: Dortmunder Pils, Frankfurt Germany
Piece: Transparent Sound (Improvisation for live electronics, DIY synthesizer, sensors and E-guitar)
– Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Germany (2024 season)
Behalt das Leben lieb
Music composition and live performance by Wingel Mendoza. Video: trailer
– NOISESTADT || Tage für Klangkunst
Installationen: Earth Tide || Innen || (H)our
Vernissage mit Live-Musik: 26.04.24 || 17:00 Uhr
Link: KULTURBÄCKEREI MAINZ
– Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany
Piece: Fire’s Memory (Objects and sound-sculpture) Info
Collaboration with the artist Selina Hammer
SCHOLARSHIPS, COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2025
– Composer selected – Listening to the rural youth | Artist residency – Vouzela, Portugal
– Artist selected for the Residence Program | Guest at the Kunstkudder. Stade, Germany
– Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden, Konzeptionsförderung. Projekt: Drei Walder (kooperative Projektarbeit)
– Composer selected for the Blaues Rauschen festival 2025
– Selected Work – Ceramic Skin for [Artificial] Territories 2025, Das Lot, Vienna, Austria
2024
– PAIR Pāvilosta – Artistic residency, Latvia. Composer selected
– Johannes Gutenberg University Prize, awarded to outstanding graduates of doctoral studies and concert examinations
2023
– Musikfonds Neuestart Kultur scholarship STIP III, Germany
– Composer selected for IDEA (International divertimento ensemble academy 2023), Milan, Italy
– Winner of SONIC MATTER call for electroacoustic works, Zurich, Switzerland
– Deutschland Stipendium (Scholarship from Germany), 2023
2022
– BEK (Centre of electronic Arts, Artistic residency), Bergen Norway
– Musikfonds Neuestart Kultur scholarship STIP II, Germany
– Deutschland Stipendium (Scholarship from Germany), 2022
– Composer selected for the International Forum of New Music “Manuel Enríquez”. Mexico
– Composer selected for the Festival Mixtur, Barcelona. Spain
2021
– Scholarship for composition Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany
– Deutschland Stipendium (Scholarship from Germany), 2021
– Rotary-Kulturförderpreis, Mainz, Germany
2020
– Composer selected – Bludenzer tage Zeitgemässer Musik – Maurice
Quartet
– Member – National System of creators and Artists, Mexico (2020 – 2023)
– Artistic Residence – 8. Internationalen Sommercampus der
Künstlerstadt Kalbe
2019
– Scholarship to Finalize Master´s degree, Johannes Gutenberg
University and DAAD, Mainz Germany
– Intenral Scholarship, Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg: Germany
– Artistic Residence – 7. Internationalen Sommercampus der
Künstlerstadt Kalbe
2017
– First prize in the music composition competition “Von fremden Ländern und Menschen “, Leipzig, Germany
2016
– First prize in the music composition competition Armin Knab Wettbewerb für Komposition”, Würzburg. Germany
2025, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014
– Composer selected for the International Forum for new Music “Manuel
Enriquez”. Mexic
RECENT SEMINARS
2023
– The National Autonomous University of Mexico, music Facutly, Mexico
Theme: Supercollider && Arduino; Interactive art in action and movement
2022
– Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts (CMMAS), Mexico
Industrial Park, Reynosa Tamaulipas, Mexico
Theme: Sound as a time perception. (Frame of temporal structures)
2020
– Master classes and virtual exchange of composition students 2020, Mexico
Theme: Space and Memory, An approach to the work of Bill Fontana