Tag: sound installation

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    Glasshouse

    Everglades frog calls visit Yerevan and move through a glass atrium overgrown with subtropical vegetation, creating an uncertain scale between recorded ecosystem, architectural resonance and the living environment already present.

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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.

  • Aerial coastline image in brown and pale orange with swirling water patterns and the title Sin Ninguna Imperfección.

    Sin Ninguna Imperfección

    An open instrumental composition and later eight-channel installation in which independently paced sounds unfold alongside a voice portrait of Argentine composer Ricardo Dal Farra.

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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.

  • Black-and-white film still showing sparks flying from a rotary grinder in Ricardo Matamoros’s visual interpretation of String Solo.

    String Solo

    A vibration captured directly from a single piano wire becomes an enveloping eight-channel work. Recorded in one continuous action around 2005, String Solo was spatially orchestrated for Audiotheque 2.0 in 2018 and dedicated to Vito Acconci.

  • 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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    Bats and Insects

    Bat calls, mosquito flight, and the resonances of a 200-foot passage continually rearrange their relationships within a sixteen-channel sound installation created for Florida Atlantic University.