sound art: aaaa-rrr-t = art!
thoughts about an on-going social experiment
a lecture by composer gustavo matamoros
part of isaw’s understanding sound series in
collaboration with the FEASt electronic music festival
at florida international university
saturday, february 2, 2008 / 3 pm
green library, room 535
fiu – university park campus, miami
free and open to the public
one most striking realization for me in the lifelong experiment of becoming a composer is the myriad contrasting ways we relate to sound. there are as many ways of listening as there are people in the world, and i have learned to take that as a given. from a marketing perspective, a great deal of what stands in the way of a meaningful, productive interaction between composer and community is not so much ignorance or bias, but some form of benign prejudice. in the meantime, with the advent of new technologies, musicians continue to discover new exciting ways of relating to sound. some view these developments as extensions of music while others feel the need to call it something else. in this lecture i will reference examples of my own musical output to stimulate an open discussion about the linguistic undercurrents that frame and color our relationship with sound