Tag: site-specific

a work designed for a specific space or location that seldom works the same way in any other context without significant alterations or adjustments

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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.

  • Orange graphic bearing the words Tilde Tilde above two geometric forms containing a white tilde and a black acute accent.

    (˜) Tilde (´) Tilde

    A portrait and spatial soundscape of Little Havana, created from voices recorded in people’s homes and the audible life of the surrounding neighborhood during a ten-month residency.

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    Untitled: Social Commentary

    An eight-channel sound installation in which found performances of works by Bach, Corelli and Gesualdo move, overlap and contradict one another, revealing differences in interpretation, tuning, recording and acoustics.

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    Small Sounds Series

    An evolving series of works that finds ways to listen from closer within things, using contact microphones and other transducers to reveal hidden activity in objects, materials, places and everyday encounters.

  • Dusk over water and wetlands in Everglades National Park during Gustavo Matamoros’s 2013 A.I.R.I.E. residency.

    Everglades: Applied Universal Force

    Drawn from field recordings made throughout Everglades National Park, this 30-channel work assembles overlapping habitats of wildlife, weather and environmental sound. Dedicated to Charles Recher, it gives the Everglades the FUÁ—the extra force.

  • Walk-through installation of suspended black-and-white square panels in a dark gallery, illuminated from above and fitted with small sound exciters.

    Memory Study
    for Surrounded Space
    MemoryLab

    A fifteen-point walk-through installation in which a Noise Melody assembled from archival fragments of Miami and Florida traveled across suspended sounding panels over a continuous environmental sound field.

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    Hextet for Stan Brakhage

    Rubbing sounds from a bass drum and precomposed organ chords travel through six channels, drawing shifting figures in the PAMM auditorium between films by Stan Brakhage.

  • Black-and-gray concentric-circle graphic with white text reading “audiotheque 2.0” and a red band reading “gustavo matamoros.”

    Audiotheque

    Audiotheque ( 1.0 and 2.0 ) was housed inside my resident artist studio at ArtCenter South Florida ( now Oolite Arts ). Since 2012 and through 2018, it provided audiences of up to 50 people with intimate access to some of the most adventurous, unfiltered, high quality experiences of sound-based art and performance available anywhere

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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.

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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.