((PKG)) MOSAIC SOUND COLLECTIVE
((Banner: Sharing the Space))
((Reporter/Camera: Gabrielle Weiss))
((Map: Austin, Texas))
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((Dan Redman, Founder, Mosaic Sound Collective))
Mosaic Sound Collective is a one stop shop of affordable resources and services for musicians and artists. We took over a former juvenile detention facility in East Austin and are repurposing this 25,000 square foot facility to create a place that is almost like a YMCA for artists.
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Each of our tenants contributes to the Collective in some way, shape or form.
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To be a member of Mosaic, you can pay a monthly membership fee, or you can earn your membership by donating your time, your art, or some sort of advocacy to one of the non-profits we support.
((Erick Sanger, Owner, Capital Radio Backline))
Austin is the live music capital of the world supposedly and everybody is being pushed out. Musicians are being pushed out left and right. Condos are popping up. Venues are closing. And while all this is happening, this is coming together and when the venues open, it’s going to be even a bigger space and a better space.
((Dillon Gerhardt, Co-Owner, Worshipper Cabinets))
I make custom speaker cabinets, headshell enclosures for bands, musicians and people obsessed with sound.
((NATS))
I know that a lot of my friends are getting kind of pushed out of town from just increased pricing. You have a lot of these guys that are wanting to play music and you can’t play music and work three other jobs. You know, it’s a lot harder. Like, I’m a nurse practitioner for a daytime job. Before I came here, we were making about 30 to 35 a year. I’ve only been doing it for about four years. Now we’re up to almost 50 since I've been here in three months. So, it’s a lot. So, we’re on this cusp of trying to make this, maybe make this a fulltime thing and now we have the opportunity to maybe make it happen.
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((Stuart Sullivan, Owner/Operator Wire Recording Studio))
There is a seemingly sense of, as our city grows and it gets bigger, there becomes less of an intimacy, less of a personality to it. And I think for me, the Mosaic really represents pulling back on that, bringing a community together, bringing personalities together, allowing Austin to have the personality that made it famous at this stage of the game. Because it wasn’t about being a big city and making it big. It was about coming to a beautiful town where there were wonderful things going on, and a complete and universal acceptance of things that were artistic and creative and non-violent basically. You know, there weren't a lot of rules. If you love music and you're not violent, welcome friend!
((Dan Redman, Founder, Mosaic Sound Collective))
Music was probably my biggest passion. And I now have two teenagers that are 17 and 19 years old and they started playing in a band in Austin when they were 9 and 11 years old called Residual Kid. When they were growing up in the Austin music scene, even as 9 and 11 years olds, their peer group wasn’t other kid bands but it was adult bands who not only were taking them under their wing, but were giving them opportunities on opening bills at shows. Now that my kids are 17 and 19 and playing in 6 or 8 different bands in Austin, I just started seeing that that peer group of musicians who helped my sons get to where they are, are some of those artists who are suffering from the affordability issues in Austin. And I really hoped to create something that was a place and a business model that could help to support artists.
((NATS))
((Dan Redman, Founder, Mosaic Sound Collective))
Sounds amazing
((Stuart Sullivan, Owner/Operator Wire Recording Studio))
Hey, that woman over there, she’s pretty good. Either that or she’s faking it really well.
((Musician))
It’s been one intense week.
((Dan Redman, Founder, Mosaic Sound Collective))
Yeah?
((Musician))
Yeah.
((Erick Sanger, Owner, Capital Radio Backline))
I’ve never seen a community of musicians working all for a greater good of helping each other. For example, if the studio needs something, I've got that, or if somebody in the lighting department needs something from me, or if the record label that’s here, if they need something from or they need to record, but everybody works together. And we’re starting to create something that not, again, I’ve never seen in any other city ever.
((Dan Redman, Founder, Mosaic Sound Collective))
The plan here is to create an outdoor space for performances but a place for food and beverage and then this wing that we’re looking at will be mostly glass on this side, and so, our plan is to have two vinyl presses here. So, you can sit out here and have a sandwich or a taco and watch records physically being pressed.
((Peelander Yellow, Band member of Peelander-Z))
So, everything, like a manufacturer, we’re going to do it together here. That’s why I choose Mosaic. Mosaic, yeah.
((Erick Sanger, Owner, Capital Radio Backline))
I mean people need music. I don’t think I could survive without music.
