Tag: public art

in my personal case these are exercises in cultural urbanism that are focussed on issues pertaining to the use of sound in the context of public space. i have focused my attention mostly on the investigation and design of community based experiments in sound-gardening and soundscaping that explore functionality in orientation, signaling, landmarking, and other elements of navigational design

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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.

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    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.

  • 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.