Margarida Garcia & Manuel Mota

Margarida Garcia and Manuel Mota have shared a common space of listening, risk-taking, and reinvention for about three decades. A unique language born from the absolute necessity of the moment. The duo's latest recordings, Cena Doméstica and A Figura no Tapete, confirm a body of work that continues to expand with rigor, subtlety, and a aforementioned originality. Sound here is not just gesture or melody; it is also the fragment, the remainder, the residual—noise that functions simultaneously as ruin and ornament. Imperfections and restrictions destabilize a structure, but make intentional gestures perceptible, creating music where what remains or disperses is significant. Without this exception, active listening and the perception of melody would be impossible. What at first seems minimal or elusive ends up exposing an internal architecture, simultaneously dense and suspended in a hidden design—a latent form that only allows itself to be glimpsed through persistence and prolonged attention.