public art / installations

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

  • Hand-drawn promotional image for Flow by PUNTO, combining the title with colorful abstract lines suggesting several gestures converging and separating.

    Flow

    An eight-channel Listening Gallery installation by PUNTO in which seven instrumental parts attempt to follow a melody known only to the performer who begins it, producing a spatial texture Gustavo Matamoros and Armando Rodriguez call “Scattered Unison.”

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    Sounding Through Empty Words IV
    Cage Centennial

    John Cage’s recorded phonemes raise and release a field of tones drawn from the resonances of a 160-foot public façade, then recomposed for another architecture.

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    Listening Gallery

    A public sound-art platform extending approximately 180 feet along the ArtCenter/South Florida façade, Listening Gallery brought changing experiments in sound into the everyday activity of Lincoln Road from 2011 through 2015.

  • Six white foam-core panels suspended like awnings at regular intervals along a museum staircase.

    Stairway

    A six-channel installation that transformed the mapped resonances of a museum staircase into stationary fields of sound, changing as visitors climbed or descended.

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    Coincidence

    Snapping shrimp in Biscayne Bay and shrimp frying in a pan meet inside an elevator bay transformed into a dense, waterlike acoustic threshold.

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Canal (2009)

    Canal (2009)

    An eight-channel installation extending 1,000 feet along Collins Canal, activated through a thirteen-hour performance that marked the beginning of Frozen Music.

  • An illuminated empty tabletop stands before two black directional speakers in the darkened gallery at the Bass Museum of Art.

    Small Sounds
    On a Table Top

    Small Sounds on a Table Top uses directional sound to create the illusion of small, invisible objects inhabiting and moving across the surface of an empty illuminated table.

  • Dense tropical vegetation and a winding pathway inside the Fern Room, with one elevated loudspeaker visible at the upper left.

    Cardinal Points

    A four-channel installation by Gustavo Matamoros and Rene Barge in which Small Sounds, wildlife recordings, slowed ultrasonic material and electronic sounds inhabited the four cardinal points of the Lincoln Park Conservatory’s Fern Room.

  • Interior of Mosquera Orthodontics showing a dental treatment area and the microphone stand used to document Small Sounds in the Workplace.

    Small Sounds in the Workplace

    Six independent sources distribute Small Sounds throughout a working orthodontic clinic, where random audible events mingle with the ordinary sounds of the workplace.

  • Long gallery chamber with small black loudspeakers distributed along white walls and illuminated by individual pools of light.

    Two Chambers Divided by an Opening

    Two autonomous sound environments occupied adjoining gallery chambers, becoming a continuously changing third environment where their resonant tones met through the opening between them.