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
2026
– Klangraum Walpodenakademie
Venue: Walpodenakademie Mainz
Work: Organizing and curating a selection of pieces for the Klangraumakademie
– Colectivo Tres Bosques (Three Forests)
Venue: Art Room Wiesbaden, Germany.
Work: Group exhibition with various interactive objects
– WATERPLAY@DRONEDAY
Venue: Walpodenakademie Mainz
Piece: Improvisation for water guns, piezo microphones, metal plates, and live electronics
– International Maifestspiele Wiesbaden 2026
Venue: Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Germany.
Work: An den Grenzen des Pulses (En los límites del pulso / At the Limits of the
Pulse) — light and sound sculpture for 120 objects; concert for saxophone,
violin, live electronics, sound sculpture, objects and video
– BBK Wiesbaden
Venue: BBK Art Gallery.
Works: Fishing colours (interactive audio work with fishing rod and sensors);
The memory in your hands (work for audio and real-time video, activated by
hand movements, machine learning and artificial intelligence)
– Unüberwindliche Entfremdung des Selbst?
Venue: art.ist Wiesbaden
Piece: Sueños en 2 idiomas / Dream in two Languages for Soprano, interactive mask, live video and electronics, and sensors
– PaRT Mainz
Venue: Walpodenakademie Mainz
Piece: A Bird Flying Over Electronic Landscapes
for electric guitar, motion sensors, AI video, and live electronics
– 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
2025
– ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMM | ZU GAST AUF DEM KUNSTKUDDER
Piece: In der Haut der Gezeiten (Serie of works), final presnetation
Place: Museum Schwedenspeicher
– 47th International Forum for New Music, Mexico.
Place: Laboratorio Escénico, Jardín Escénico
Música Electrónica
Piece: Piel de cerámica for Ambisonic system
– Tag des offenen Denkmals
Location: Schwedenspeicher Museum, Stade, Germany
Work: The Skin of Water, for an interactive Ambisonics 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
SCHOLARSHIPS, COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2026
– Artistic residency at Künstlerhaus Edenkoben, Germany
– Winning project of the International Maifestspiele Wiesbaden 2026 open call
– Mainz Art Boost 2026
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
2025 – 26
Private lessons_ Supercollider, Python, microcontrollers and different hardware for interactive works
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