Open INDIVISIBLES presentation box containing a signed CD, printed information and reproductions of fourteen drawings by Ralph Provisero.

Indivisibles

publications

2022

Limited-edition art album
Gustavo Matamoros and David Dunn
Drawings by Ralph Provisero
Edition of 50
Subtropics Editions

Drawing by Ralph Provisero corresponding to In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant by Gustavo Matamoros.
Ralph Provisero’s visual interpretation of Gustavo Matamoros’s In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant, one of fourteen drawings reproduced for INDIVISIBLES.

INDIVISIBLES brings together fourteen recorded works by David Dunn and Gustavo Matamoros in a limited-edition art album published by Subtropics Editions.

The project began with my desire to collaborate with David as part of And Sometimes, the Space Is Full of a Previous Space. I proposed a release, and David mentioned that he had a group of unpublished pieces that had never seemed to belong within his other recording projects. I had accumulated a comparable group of works and excerpts—and had never been able to decide what would constitute a proper CD of my own.

We exchanged recordings, listened, commented and gradually decided what should be included. The pieces differ considerably in origin, method and character, yet David’s works and mine seemed to make sense together. Their diversity became the album’s organizing principle.

I proposed the title INDIVISIBLES to express that discovery: however contrasting the individual works may be, they belong together.

THE EDITION

Each of the fifty numbered copies contains:

  • one numbered presentation box;
  • one numbered CD sleeve;
  • one white audio CD signed by David Dunn and Gustavo Matamoros;
  • one information insert signed by both artists;
  • fourteen reproductions of original drawings by Ralph Provisero, with one drawing corresponding to each audio track.

Claudia Ariano collaborated on the design of the physical package. The title and the artists’ surnames are stamped directly inside the box.

Rubber stamp bearing the INDIVISIBLES title and the names Dunn and Matamoros.
Rubber stamp used to print the INDIVISIBLES title and the surnames Dunn and Matamoros inside each numbered box.

Collectors of the physical edition also receive access to an online listening version.

TRACKS

  1. In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant — Gustavo Matamoros
  2. Inscape 3 — David Dunn
  3. FFF for Floor Flute — Gustavo Matamoros
  4. Canon — David Dunn
  5. Coincidence — Gustavo Matamoros
  6. Cocktail Hour in Little Havana — Gustavo Matamoros
  7. Thresholds and Fragile States — David Dunn
  8. String Solo for Vito Acconci — Gustavo Matamoros
  9. Blue Moon — David Dunn
  10. Swept Away with Pendulum — Gustavo Matamoros
  11. Ultrasonic Walk — David Dunn
  12. Hextet — Gustavo Matamoros
  13. Variations on a Song from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat — David Dunn
  14. Truly Yours — Gustavo Matamoros

FIRST PRESENTATION

INDIVISIBLES received its first public presentation on September 1, 2022, at the Deering Estate Theater. The fourteen works were presented in album order as four-channel realizations, accompanied by projected animations created by Freddy Jouwayed from Ralph Provisero’s drawings.

The event was the first episode of And Sometimes, the Space Is Full of a Previous Space, a series conceived during my residency at Deering Estate.

AVAILABILITY

Copies of the limited edition remain available from Subtropics Editions.

For information, contact info@subtropics.org.

CREDITS

Recorded works: David Dunn and Gustavo Matamoros
Selection and sequence: David Dunn and Gustavo Matamoros
Audio mastering: Each artist mastered his respective works
Original drawings: Ralph Provisero
Package design: Claudia Ariano with Gustavo Matamoros
Projected animations for the first presentation: Freddy Jouwayed
Photograph of the edition: Gustavo Matamoros
Published by: Subtropics Editions
Edition: 50 numbered copies