Enrique Mendoza from Mexico City is a musician specialising in acousmatic music and live electronics. His electro-acoustic composition and performance put into play DIY analog oscillators, lo-fi mini-synths, custom software, production music technology, and multi-channel systems. He works alongside performers to break new ground and gain specific insights into the instruments and the performer’s expression.
In 2020, he was invited as Artist-in-Residence at the Museums Quartier to compose a multi-channel piece for the Tonspur Kunstverein Wien.
The KulturKontakt Austria and the AIR-Niederösterreich programme in cooperation with the Federal Chancellery of Austria selected Enrique as Composer-in-Residence in 2017 and 2019. In 2014 Mendoza released the Album “Below Sea Level”, edited by Future Music Records in London. The Independent Music Awards in New York nominated his piece “Cassiopeia” as “Best Instrumental Song 2014”. He represented Mexico in the 51st International Rostrum of Composers held at Unesco in Paris, as well as in the 59th edition, organized by the International Music Council in Stockholm. Enrique has received commissions, awards, and grants from Institutions and Ensembles around Europe, USA, Asia and Mexico.
Since 2005, Mendoza has taught composition, sound and image, and music production in several Universities and Institutions in Mexico. From 2019 on, he has been a professor at the National Cinematographic Arts School, UNAM, MX. Enrique has a Master’s degree from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and he is currently undertaking an artistic doctorate at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria.