Tag: collaboration

  • Album cover featuring a vintage black-and-white illustration of a frog beneath the title Bow Hard at the Frog in green lettering.

    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

  • 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.”

  • 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…

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Frozen Music

    Frozen Music

    A sound-art collective formed in 2009 by David Dunn, René Barge and Gustavo Matamoros, Frozen Music uses autonomous sounds, spatialization and extended duration to discover what a site will do.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Cars & Fish

    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.

  • Subtropics Vol. 1: Breath CD in an open jewel case beside overlapping transparent printed sleeves.

    Subtropics Vol. 1: Breath (2002)

    The first album of live recordings from the Subtropics Festival’s digital archives, this collection revolves around the sounds generated by breath and features performances by Robert Dick, Earle Browne, John Gibson, Needle & Sony_Mao, Thomas Buckner and Alvin Lucier, Gustavo Matamoros and Robert Gregory, and John Cage. The album was released in 2002 and was intended as a fundraiser for Subtropics Organization ( SFCA ) a nonprofit organization.