Gustavo Matamoros

Gustavo Matamoros

Gustavo Matamoros (* 1957 in Caracas ) is a Venezuelan composer.

Life

Matamoros lives in the USA, where he has been artistic director of the Subtropics Festival for experimental music since 1989 . Since 1996 he has also led the interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop he founded .

Matamoros is best known for his band SEE, in which hand saws are used. In addition, Sam Ashley is one of his partners, with whom he also appeared in Germany. He also worked a. a. with Alison Knowles , Fred Lonberg-Holm , Lou Mallozzi , Malcolm Goldstein , Russell Frehling , Jacqueline Humbert , Shahreyar Ataie , David Manson , Charles Recher , Helena Thevenot , Dinorah Rodriguez , Davey Williams and Jan Williams .

His intermedia works include solo performances, objects, sound installations, sound videos and radiophonic works. His portraits (retratos) , in which he processed sound material from the person portrayed, became known. Among other things, he has twice received the Venezuelan National Prize for Composition.

Works

• Cervatana Music for flute and live processing, 1982
• 142857 for tape, 1986
• Truly Yours for xylophone and tape, 1987
• La Pieza / NMA-Miami version for broadcast, 1988
• R con R , installation with toy trains and sound (with Fred Snitzer ), 1989
• Ferrocarril , installation with computer-controlled toy trains and sound (with Fred Snitzer), 1990
• Con el dedo en el timbre , multimedia work for drums, dancers, video, light and tape, 1990
• Retrato: Flores Chaviano for guitar and tape, 1990
• Retrato: Joseph Celli for oboe and tape, 1990
• Retrato: Bob Gregory for Reader and Tape, 1990
• To the Victims… for snare drum and tape, 1991
• Sin Ninguna Imperfección… for eight instruments and tape, 1991
• In Memory of Gentle Giant II for live electronics and video, 1991
• Auto-Retrato for Live Electronics and Video, 1991
• Hold On !!! Sound installation, 1991
• The Garden , installation with sound, paintings and sculptures (with Kate Rawlinson and Diane Dawes ), 1992
• Heavy metal for amplified instruments and tape, 1992
• 37, for instance, or 36, to John Cage for string orchestra and tape, 1992
• Retrato: Luis Gómez-Imbert for double bass and tape, 1992
• Retrato: Ricardo Dal Farra for tape and live electronics, 1992
• Tracing the Radio Landscape for Broadcasting, 1992
• Preparing The Air To Let The Rhythm Be Heard And Help The City With Its Dancing for broadcast, 1992
• Una Guitarra… Toca Sola for live electronics and lyrics, 1993
• Dreamcatcher for string quintet, vocoder and tape, 1993
• Music On A Budget , five short pieces, 1993
  • Variations on a Shoe String for reinforced pencil and shoelace
  • Sound consumption for an amplified burning match
  • More for Less, or Time is Money for as many musicians as possible
  • Pocket change for reinforced loose coins
  • Cheaper Imitation: Stars & Strips Forever More for electronically controlled tape
• The Ear of the Beholder , interactive sound sculpture, 1993
• An Interaction of Ideas, an installation of sound and computer images (with Tom Schmitt ), 1994
• Field , installation with wood, glass, loudspeaker system and sound (with Larry Cressman ), 1994
• Ventanas de Contacto for amplified double bass and tape, 1994
• RE: TdM (are), for Anthony deMare for piano, voices and tape, 1995
• Private Thoughts / Public Forum for three readers and three-track tape, 1995
• ¿METAPHOR? , Sound installation, 1995
• Piano, ma non tango for piano and tape, 1996
• Mapa / Memoria for six audio channels, mokrophones and dancers, 1996
• Trump (s) Car (d) for wind quintet, percussion and tape, 1997
• Sound Painting with Dreams and Spirits , tape loop, 1997
• William Tells of Rights for recorded text and snare drum, 1997
• Sound Painting with Piano , tape loop, 1998
• Sing and Follow the Leider for voice, singing saw and tape, 1998
• Fishtank: Music BorderLine and Fishtank: B (ey) ON'K (ey) West , two full-length pieces made up of overlapping, unrelated sound and video pieces, 1998
• Sound Painting with Harp and Gongs , Tonbandschleife, 1999
• In my Mind as I Work for saw and wood plank, 2000
• Dreams & Spirits , an outdoor installation made of sounds received via antennas, 2000
• Dreams Gathered for projected images and radio sounds from two windows on 125th street, 2001
• Electra , 2001
• An Old Shoe… for saw and tape, 2001
• Sounds Gathered recorded by any number of participants, 2001
• Symbiosis by Osmosis four-channel sound installation in a garden with bus noises from a nearby bus stop, 2002
• Breezeway , 2003
• FTNK GTR: Evidence No 1 , 2003