Musica Mosaica - Clock In, Clock Out LP

Anatomy of Sound Lives

Musica Mosaica undertakes an experimental exploration of sounds, viewed not merely as simple acoustic phenomena, but as truly living realities. From this perspective, experimentation is by no means a convenient metaphor used to illustrate an intuitive or informal approach. On the contrary, it is meant literally — deliberate, almost scientific: each musical piece becomes a small laboratory where sounds are observed as animated entities, with their own morphology, with impulses that bring them closer or push them apart, and with an intensity that makes them vibrate, grow or fade. Xavier García Bardón and Emmanuel Gonay readily refer to a ‘vivarium’ to describe this artificial yet carefully constructed space, a recreated environment where these sonic beings are placed, moved and confronted with each other, allowing us to observe how they react, develop, transform and disappear.

For each piece, Musica Mosaica draws from these patiently accumulated collections, reanimates these sonic beings caught in distinct temporalities, brings them into relation, and confronts them with others to observe the unexpected effects they produce and the new dimensions they acquire through their interaction. Furthermore, any experimentation requires experimental protocols, rules — however minimal — that enable an experiment to proceed and, within this constrained space, allow for forms of improvisation that make space for the multiple contingencies of situations. The protocols may vary, and perhaps the type of protocol does not matter here, as long as a constraint is established, shared and negotiated, and allows each participant to intervene and co‐shape the sonic space as it comes into being.