selected works

Selected compositions, performances, and sound installations, with recordings, images, scores, and accounts of how the works developed.

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    Anémic Cinéma

    Soundtrack for Marcel Duchamp’s filmGustavo Matamoros Stereo electroacoustic soundtrackComposed 2014Duration: 7′05″Commissioned by Bruce Posner for Flicker AlleySoundtrack for Marcel Duchamp’s Anémic Cinéma (1926) I composed this soundtrack for Marcel Duchamp’s silent film Anémic…

  • Close-up of a recessed opening in a concrete sculpture containing a small figure assembled from narrow textured forms and circular coils.

    Bridge Red Studios Residency Project (2012)

    Red Bridge Book—a mixed media publishing project combining photographs by Luis Olazabal in the Subtropics Archives of the concrete sculptures of Robert Thiele, and the sounds of Gustavo Matamoros and Rene Barge. In-Progress…

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    Acoustical Portrait

    A video composition documenting the controlled-feedback mapping of the Bass Museum of Art—a process that revealed the gallery’s acoustical signature and helped prepare it for the multichannel installations presented in SOUND.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Performance of Four Stone Guitars with four electric guitarists onstage at Festival Punto de Encuentro in Valencia, Spain, in 2015.

    Stone Guitar

    The Stroke That Kills is an album of electric guitar music by various composers performed by Seth Josel released by New World Records. It contains a nice rendition of his version of my piece, Stone Guitar with Tig Welder (2005)

  • “Close-up portrait of harpist Elizabeth Panzer looking toward the camera beside a sunlit window.”

    Re: Elizabeth (1997)

    Created for harpist Elizabeth Panzer, Re: Elizabeth is a gated sound portrait in which two live microphone signals reveal the stereo channels of a continuously running fixed composition.

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    Music on a Budget

    An evolving collection of concise event scores that turns limited means into compositional material, inviting music to emerge from simple actions, inexpensive objects and the resources at hand.

  • Trombonist David Manson performing Re: David onstage during Subtropics 25 at the Deering Estate Theater in 2021.

    Re: David (1995)

    Gated sound portrait for trombone and stereo recorded soundCommissioned and performed by David MansonDuration: 6′30″Dated October 27, 1995 Re: David is a stereo sound portrait in which David Manson’s live trombone…