Books & Books, Subtropics Organization and the City of Coral Gables present…

Gustavo Matamoros’s Listening Club Part 1: Eggstravinsky

Monday, June 6, 7 PM | LIVE & IN-PERSON at Books & Books, Coral Gables

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This event is part of a special four-part series presented by the Subtropics Organization and the City of Coral Gables at Books & Books.

Find more information on parts two through four here:

Part 2: A Disturbance in the Force

Part 3: Songbook

Part 4: Supersonic Tales of Sound and Speed

About Episode 1:

This two-hour long first episode of Listening Club explores the audible influences of Modern Music on 1970s Progressive Rock and features recordings of compositions by Egg and Stravinsky.

Episode highlights include the use in music of asymmetric and multi-metric rhythms, not as capricious novelties, but as grammatical tools that make musical sentences feel surprising, less redundant, more poetic, natural and easier to discern.

About the Listening Club series:

Created by Gustavo Matamoros, the Listening Club is a series of listening experiences curated for the stimulation of the sound mind: the mind with which we listen. The 2022 season is in four parts and makes its Coral Gables debut in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Books and Books.

About the Author:

GUSTAVO MATAMOROS is North American intermedia artist born in Caracas who works in Miami since 1979 in the arenas of experimental music, sound installations and intermedia. He is the founding artistic director of the Subtropics Festival and is currently in residence at Florida International University’s i360 XR Theater, and at Deering Estate Theater — residency for which he received a 2021 Knight Arts Challenge award. His work was recently featured during the Aspen Ideas: Climate conference at the New World Center in Miami Beach.