selected works

compositions and sound installations | audio samples

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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…

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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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    In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant

    This version of In Gated Memory of Gentle Giant featuring soloist David Williams on electric guitar is part of INDIVISIBLES, an anthology of compositions and sound art pieces by Gustavo Matamoros and David Dunn spanning 40 years, and published as a limited edition art album by Subtropics Editions. The image is a drawing by Ralph Provisero.

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    (~) Tilde (´) Tilde

    Learn about the pieces I created during my 10-month-long residency at the Koubek Center in Little Havana as part of En Residencia under the title, (~) Tilde ( ‘ ) Tilde

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    Sin Ninguna Imperfección

    This chamber piece for instruments ( from 1-8 ) and sound portrait, is performed over the fixed media soundtrack of Retrato: Ricardo Dal Farra. It can also be presented as a sound installation

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    Small Sounds Series

    Small Sounds are the result of various sounding strategies applied to objects or captured from sources the natural sound of which isn’t readily perceivable by the naked ear. a feature of these pieces is the impression of sound being heard from the perspective of the probed sound source. to hear these sounds transducers of different kinds are used the same way a microscope is used to discover fascinating features of the real world too small for us to see without it

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Everglades: Applied Universal Force

    Everglades: Applied Universal Force

    part two of Four Audible Experiences of Movement of Sound in Space
    this is a 5:37 excerpt of the binaural documentation of this orchestration for 30-channels created as one of four short installations in the Audiotheque 2.0 opening sound art exhibition project on display from September 13-December 15, 2018 at Audiotheque

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: String Solo

    String Solo

    part three of Four Audible Experiences of Movement of Sound in Space
    this is a 5:39 binaural documentation of this orchestration for 8-channels created as one of four short installations in the Audiotheque 2.0 opening sound art exhibition project on display from September 13-December 15, 2018 at Audiotheque

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Williams Tells of Rights

    Williams Tells of Rights

    Also known as Piece for Amplified Snare Drum, Williams Tells of Rights (WTR) is a sound song for speech activated snare drum which I composed in 1994 at the request of my dear friend, percussionist Jan Williams. It has also been presented as a sound installation

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Bow Hard at the Frog | Corbett vs Dempster

    Bow Hard at the Frog |
    Corbett vs Dempster

    Information about this album by Fred Lonberg-Holm and Gustavo Matamoros released on the Corbett vs. Dempster label as well as reviews and information about its first live performance as part of the Deep Listening Festival at LAXART in West Hollywood, CA