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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    Tone Poem in Surround

    Gustavo MatamorosTone Poem in Surround (2025)20′live camera, surround sound A work for amplified text, small piano sounds, and radio speech, presented in surround sound. The piece combines live writing, prepared…

  • Quail Roost Sanctuary by Gustavo Matamoros

    Quail Roost Sanctuary

    Quail Roost Sanctuary is a permanent, site-specific sound installation situated within the breezeway connecting the parking structure to the new Eureka Drive rapid transit bus terminal at Quail Roost Station. Spanning 320 feet, the work investigates the site’s inherent acoustical identity, making audible the resonant frequencies embedded in its architectural form. As with much of the artist’s installation approach, the piece foregrounds the interplay between physical space and sonic perception. The soundscape integrates processed field recordings of quail and other South Florida fauna, creating a layered composition that situated environmental memory within an urban transit context.

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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.

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    Untitled (36) – Double Infinity for Phill Niblock

    Contour Editions Online Screening Release ce.onl_0043
    YROR 2023 | YROC 2021 | 14’00”

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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

    A site-specific resonance sound portrait of the i360 XR Theater in the Glenn Hubert Library at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus in ATMOS 11 format.

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    Glasshouse

    Glasshouse is a site-specific, public art sound installation created for the 40ft tall atrium of Yerevan’s Botanical Garden in Armenia

  • An Artist Statement

    Sound is the audible evidence of life — the manifestation of change as it moves through time and space. Every vibration is a gesture of existence in motion; stillness, in…

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    Lecture: On Sound Art and Subtropics

    An online presentation by Gustavo Matamoros and conversation with Jade Dellinger, Director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, moderated by Cesar Conejo and hosted by the Center for Audio Visual Experimentation at the University of Leeds, England.

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    Soundscape with Grasshoppers

    Typical of my work are sound installations such as this one, which seek to make audible aspects of the particular acoustic personality of a given space. These acoustical features can…