public art / installations

Permanent and temporary sound installations and performances shaped by the acoustical character of architecture, landscapes, and public spaces.

  • 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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    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.

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    Soundscape with Grasshoppers

    Seasonal wing-flapping noises of grasshoppers mating recorded on Anhinga Trail emerge from behind Robert Thiele’s concrete sculptures, establishing scale and articulating the acoustics of a room bathed in resonant tones at Bridge Red Studios.

  • Grainy black-and-white film still showing a person’s arm and hand near a circular wall fixture, with reflections and shadowy interior forms in the background.

    FM: Paranormal

    A three-channel Frozen Music installation created from ultrasonic activity recorded during one night inside the Richmond Cottage, slowed into human hearing and allowed to descend from an inaccessible upper floor through the building’s central staircase.

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    Untitled: Social Commentary

    An eight-channel sound installation in which found performances of works by Bach, Corelli and Gesualdo move, overlap and contradict one another, revealing differences in interpretation, tuning, recording and acoustics.

  • Walk-through installation of suspended black-and-white square panels in a dark gallery, illuminated from above and fitted with small sound exciters.

    Memory Study
    for Surrounded Space
    MemoryLab

    A fifteen-point walk-through installation in which a Noise Melody assembled from archival fragments of Miami and Florida traveled across suspended sounding panels over a continuous environmental sound field.

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    SoundSpace

    Three hour-long compositions move along 24 independent trajectories through 120 loudspeakers, creating an abundant outdoor field whose spatial behavior remains open to live intervention.

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    Bats and Insects

    Bat calls, mosquito flight, and the resonances of a 200-foot passage continually rearrange their relationships within a sixteen-channel sound installation created for Florida Atlantic University.

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    Distant Bats

    for Skip Snow Gustavo MatamorosMultichannel sound installation 2013Recorded in Everglades National Park The calls of bats occur naturally at frequencies beyond the range of human hearing. We may see bats…