FLOATING SOUND GALLERY

Vienna

Enrique Mendoza Mejia

photo Bogi Nagy

Enrique Mendoza Mejia
Born in Mexico City and based in Vienna, Enrique Mendoza is an artist focusing on electroacoustic composition, live electronics and hybrid live diffusion using ambisonics, binaural and discrete system techniques. His electroacoustic compositions and performances use analogue synthesizers, custom software, 3D immersive audio technology and multi-channel systems.
Enrique has performed hybrid live spatialisation sets using loudspeaker arrays at Montreal Agora Hydro (CA), Vienna Acousmonium (AT), Lisboa Incomum (PT), Corfu Acousmonium (GR), SonicLab (AT), Koper Dodekaotto (SI), KlangTheater (AT), Ottosonics (AT), B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance (US), among many others. In 2020, he was an Artist-in-Residence at MuseumsQuartier, where he composed a multi-channel piece for Tonspur Kunstverein Wien.
His compositions have been presented at forums and festivals such as Montreal New Music (CA), Musikverein Wien (AT), Imersivo Festival (PT), Ars Electronica (AT), NYCEMF (US), MOOZAK Live-multichannel (AT), IZIS Festival (SL), Ottosonics Festival (AT), 40. 4 - Sonic Summit (US), IGNM Strommusik (AT), Festival Cervantino (MX), Ny Musik Festival (DK), Xarkis Festival (CY), International Conference on Computer Music (ICMC/SMC 2014) (GR), KlangFest (AT), Echoes Around Me (AT), Tromp Percussion (NL), Unsafe+Sound (AT), 3rd International Forum for Young Composers Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble (PT), Miradas de Música Contemporánea (ES), Visiones Sonoras XV (MX), and others. He represented Mexico at the International Tribune of Composers No. 51 (Paris, 2003) and No. 59 (Stockholm, 2012).
Mendoza has received commissions, awards and grants from institutions and ensembles in Europe, the USA, Asia, South America and Mexico. Since 2019, he has been a professor at the National School of Cinematographic Arts, UNAM, MX. Enrique holds a Master's degree from the Conservatory of Amsterdam. He is pursuing a Doctor of Arts degree at the Anton Bruckner Private University (Linz, Austria), where he also lectures on Digital Music Techniques. His research focuses on electroacoustic composition for hybrid audio diffusion systems (HADS), expanding spatial auditory perception through innovative performance and compositional techniques.