Vertixe Sonora
The beauty of the broken lies in that which does not pretend to be perfect. In every crack there is a hidden story, in every scar a memory. The broken speaks to us of fragility, but also of resistance: traces of what we have survived. A shattered object can be transformed into art, like Japanese kintsugi, which joins pieces of pottery with gold, highlighting the wound instead of hiding it. The same happens with people: our mistakes, losses, and stumbles shape us, making us unique. Perfection is often cold and distant; the broken, on the other hand, invites closeness, tenderness, and respect. To recognize the beauty of the broken is to accept that life is not an intact crystal, but a mosaic of shining fragments. It is to learn to love the process of reconstruction, where each piece fits back together with more strength, more truth, and more light.
With this program, Vertixe Sonora embraces imperfection and raw emotion, transforms fragility into beauty, reveals greatness in the broken: the crack is not hidden, it becomes the very center of beauty.
“There is no narration, the sound dramaturgy behaves like a broken bowl recomposed: the initial fracture opens a sonic space; the crack becomes a place of resonance and tension; the gesture of union —the gold— acts as a structural axis that sutures, rearranges, and gives new meaning to the sound material. The fragments drift apart, turn, recombine in a slower pulse, as if searching for their place. Tensions and resonances that, when joined, generate a new form.”
(Voro García, 2025)
Mateu Malondra (ES) Free Modular Study 1 (2015) — saxophone, accordion, electric guitar, piano, percussion, live electronics
Mateu Malondra (ES) Free Modular Study nº2 (2024/25) — oboe, saxophone, accordion, electric guitar, piano, percussion, live electronics
Yann Robin (FR) Art of Metal II (2007) — bass saxophone and live electronics (2015)
Felipe Ribeiro (BR) title to be determined (2024) — saxophone, accordion, electric guitar, electronics
Voro García (ES) The Beauty of the Broken (2025) — saxophone, accordion, electric guitar, piano, percussion
Vertixe Sonora
Pilar Fontalba — oboe
María Mogas — accordion
Pablo Coello — saxophone
Nuno Pinto — electric guitar
David Durán — piano
Diego Ventoso — percussion
Iván Ferrer — electronics
Vertixe Sonora
Since its debut in 2011 in Santiago de Compostela, Vertixe Sonora has performed more than 250 concerts and premiered 384 works by 308 composers from 57 countries.
A decade of original productions and concerts in different festivals and series in Spain. Its international recognition has allowed it to perform in Germany, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, the United States, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and South Africa.
Winner of the 2016 Martín Códax Prize for Contemporary Classical Music, its work has been documented in Sonutopías (campUSCulturae, University of Santiago de Compostela, 2014), Correspondencias Sonoras (Manuel del Río, 2013), and La lira del desierto (Manuel del Río, 2020), the latter commemorating the 60th anniversary of composer Enrique X. Macías’s birth.
In addition to the CD featuring the finalist works of the 26th Young Composers Award (Fundación SGAE-CNDM), it has recorded Lula Romero’s cycle Die Wanderung for WERGO, and for the NEOS label The Dimension of the Fragile, a monograph on composer Víctor Ibarra, and Peripheral Spaces, a monograph on composer Camilo Méndez.
Since 2021 it has been the Spanish section member of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM).