Tag: mapping

Mapping is a term i learned from my mentor Russell Frehling who composed a piece with that very title. the idea resonates with that of a Trancing in that it involves the scanning of an architectural space by means of controlled feedback performed with a moving microphone in order to identify, not frequency bands, but specific tones that define the acoustical signature of that space. Russell’s whole philosophy of sound installation design is entirely based on that

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    SOUND

    A 42-page catalog documenting SOUND, the 2009 exhibition curated and designed by Gustavo Matamoros for The Bass Museum of Art.

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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.

  • 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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    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.

  • Sewing machines mounted on sculptural wooden resonators in Duane Brant’s interactive installation Sew Organ.

    SOUND
    A Sound Art Exhibition

    A museum exhibition composed across space and time, SOUND brought together multichannel, autonomous and interactive works while addressing the problem of presenting sound art within shared galleries.

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.