public art / installations

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

  • Artwork by Ralph Provisero showing a standing figure exhaling a pale cloud toward a small black mechanical form, surrounded by smoke, green shapes and wavering vertical lines.

    Ffffff

    An 8′54″ miniature 5.1 installation created inside Robert Chambers’s Floor Flute, returning recorded breaths to five wind instruments and the bellows through a concealed spatial-audio system.

  • Gustavo Matamoros performs at a grand piano while a microphone swings above the open strings during Piano Marina at Miami City Ballet in 2007

    Swept Away | Piano Piece with Pendulum

    Swept Away | Piano Piece with Pendulum is an evolving work in which imagined movement, physical balance and a piano’s quiet mechanical sounds continually influence one another. Created as an event score in 1994, it later incorporated a swinging stereo microphone and expanded into the six-hour performance and installation Piano Marina.

  • Gustavo Matamoros stands before a seated audience surrounded by tropical plants and historic architecture in Vizcaya’s central courtyard. Photo by Luis Olazabal.

    Organ

    Organ gathers five interconnected works created from Vizcaya’s historic player organ, its surviving rolls and the resonant architecture of the Villa’s central courtyard.

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    Cars & Fish

    Cars & Fish brought moving images, environmental recordings, and live performers into the unfinished Miami Performing Arts Center plaza, where cars traveled north, fish swam south, and the two buildings became a single audiovisual field.

  • Long covered walkway at FIU’s School of Architecture containing Gustavo Matamoros and Shahreyar Ataie’s sixty-speaker Breezeway installation.

    Breezeway

    A permanent sixty-speaker installation sends two counter-moving piano noise melodies through a 180-foot walkway while stationary tones reveal the resonant architecture of FIU’s School of Architecture.

  • A stone lantern, red footbridge, and curving path inside the Japanese garden at Miami Beach Botanical Garden.

    Symbiosis by Osmosis

    A four-speaker sound-gardening installation that transformed the idling drones and hydraulic bursts of a neighboring bus stop into a delicate listening field within a Japanese garden.

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    An Interaction of Ideas

    A collaborative installation with Tom Schmitt that used obsolete audiovisual equipment, computer-controlled power, electromechanical bamboo bells, suspended speakers, and exposed cables to generate changing relationships among sound, image, machinery, and space.

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    Improvisation

    A site-specific collaboration with visual artist Larry Cressman in which 300 piezoelectric speakers, glass, graphite, rubber, and black speaker wire formed a three-dimensional drawing animated by an eight-channel field of recorded glass-scoring sounds.