Pedro Mantecon

Pedro Mantecon (Mexico City, 1983). He studied Visual Arts at the Centro Morelense de las Artes (CMA) in 2011, where he focused on sound art. In 2010, he was selected to participate in Composing Interactive Multimedia at the Mexican Center for Music and Sound Arts. In 2013, he took the workshop Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics at Berklee College of Music. He earned a Master's Degree in Editorial Production at the UAEM (Mexico City University of Mexico), focusing his research on the relationship between publishing and sound. Throughout his career as a composer, he has composed original music for documentaries and short films such as the series Impunidad Mata (Impunity Kills) by Article 19, La Voz Del Silencio (The Voice of Silence), a documentary about the 2017 earthquake produced by Cultura Colectiva (broadcast by National Geographic), and the installation Cotidiano de un Trabajador Petrolero (Daily Life of an Oil Worker) by Pemex. Recipient of the Program for the Promotion of Artistic Creation and Development (Morelos) in 2020 as a creator with a track record in the music category. He was selected for the Ragdale Foundation residency in 2023.

His recent discography, under the name Capital Sur, includes Plano circular (2014), Meridiano (2016), Laberintos invisibles (2018), and Estrategias poéticas (2022). With this project, he has performed at El Lunario, the Cervantino Festival, the Teopanzolco Auditorium, the Oriente Festival, and the Jardín Borda Cultural Center, among others.

He has taught workshops at the Eduardo Mata Sound Library (Oaxaca), the Center for the Execution of Deprivation of Liberty Measures (CEMPLA in Morelos), and various cultural venues. He served as Education Director at Proyecto Siqueiros La Tallera from 2012 to 2014, where he coordinated workshops and events related to soundscapes. Later in 2016, he was invited to direct the School of Visual Arts at the CMA, where he created the Bachelor's Degree in Art and Tradition. He currently heads the Arts Promotion for the Ministry of Culture of the State of Morelos.

Visit his site at www.pedromantecon.com