Gustavo Matamoros
Glass House — South Florida

My performance consists of a single work featuring sounds collected over many years in South Florida, the place were I live and work. The emerging soundscape is presented in four channels of audio surrounding the audience.
In contrast to my work with sound installations, which focus on exploring context, my performances often focus on two other aspects of information available to us as we experience sound. I am referring to gesture and character. Glass House — South Florida is a kind of sound portrait of the area where I live. The work is composed of audible gestures sometimes captured in field recordings, and other times performed by holding and manipulating objects close-at-hand. These sounds are presented as side-by-side events and as overlappings. The soundscape is performed and moved around in immediate response to their behavior in the room.
— Gustavo Matamoros
September 6, 19:30
Yerevan Botanical Garden
Performance, 2023
Gustavo Matamoros is North American composer born in Venezuela who creates experimental music and sound art. He is the founder of the Subtropics Festival in Miami and a core member of Frozen Music — a sound art collective with David Dunn and Rene Barge that has included Russell Frehling and David Behrman. He is best known for his work with small sounds, as well as for his sound portraits; the use of “gated” recorded sound as an interactive element in live electroacoustic performance; his “noise melodies”; and for his site-specific and public sound art installations.























