Author: GM

I have been working with sound for over 30 years. What I've done has emerged from experimentation, collaboration, community engagement and from a desire to connect more intimately with the world through sound. Very little of the outcome of such experimentation is accessible, and some of what is, needs tweaking so it makes better sense. I thought I take this opportunity then to make that exploration more translucent, more public. Thanks in advance for your interest and I hope you find this information useful. Note I will be posting information in no particular order as I find and gather support materials for each piece.
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    Bio

    Gustavo Matamoros is an American composer born in Venezuela who creates experimental music and sound art. He is also the founder of the Subtropics Festival in Miami and a core member of Frozen Music, an artist collective which includes David Dunn, Rene Barge, Russell Frehling and David Behrman.

  • Two orange-and-yellow grasshoppers, one resting on the other, among green grass, low plants, and dry stems.

    An Artist Statement

    Sound is the audible evidence of life. It is evidence of things changing, moving, interacting, and occupying space. Sounds carry information about the events that produce them, the particular character of…

  • David Dunn and Gustavo Matamoros seated in silhouette inside a cylindrical projection environment filled with horizontal fields of green light.

    List of Works + Projects

    WORKS BY CATEGORY FIXED AND OPEN SCORES 2021 — Eighty-Five Audible MomentsElectroacoustic version for piano and fixed media. 2021 — Seagull’s TangoFor piano and stereo fixed media. 2019 — AntiphonalOpen-score…

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    Tone Poem in Surround

    Amplified writing, piano sounds, radio speech and other fragments circulate through surround space, continually approaching—but never settling into—the form of a poem.

  • Quail Roost Sanctuary by Gustavo Matamoros

    Quail Roost Sanctuary

    Quail calls and resonant tones move through a permanent 320-foot installation at Quail Roost Station, creating a continuously changing place for attentive listening within the transit breezeway.

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    Improvisation

    Listen to the recording of the June 2nd, 2024 Improvisation featuring Lukas Ligeti (drums), and Gustavo Matamoros (guitar + electronics). The performance took place at the Deering Estate theater in Miami.

  • Cover artwork by Richard Garet for Untitled (36) – Double Infinity for Phill Niblock by Gill Arno, Gustavo Matamoros and Richard Garet.

    Untitled (36) – Double Infinity for Phill Niblock

    Created for Phill Niblock’s eighty-eighth birthday, this fourteen-minute audiovisual collaboration by Gill Arno, Gustavo Matamoros and Richard Garet was published online by Contour Editions in 2023.

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    Subtropics 2023 Marathon

    Three Satellite Events and a Marathon at Deering Estate bring back echoes of Subtropics Festivals past Experience the Subtropics Marathon— an extraordinary showcase of intermedia and experimental artists pushing sonic…

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    Cylinder

    Controlled feedback and sustained tones activate the resonances of a twenty-foot cylindrical screen theater, moving between virtual positions and acoustic nodes so that no two listening positions offer the same piece.

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    Glasshouse

    Everglades frog calls visit Yerevan and move through a glass atrium overgrown with subtropical vegetation, creating an uncertain scale between recorded ecosystem, architectural resonance and the living environment already present.