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SUMMARY:Subtropics: Audible Fields at Deering Estate
DESCRIPTION:Deering Estate and Subtropics present Subtropics: Audible Fields at Deering Estate, a five-part series of immersive listening experiences curated by composer and intermedia artist Gustavo Matamoros. Taking place on select weekends at 4:00 PM, the series brings together experimental music, moving image, radio art, and spatial sound practices in a sequence of programs that foreground listening as an active, perceptual experience.\nAcross the series, sound, image, gesture, and environment converge within multichannel audio, expanded cinema, and durational performance. Audiences are invited to engage listening not only as hearing, but as a spatial mode of attention shaped by movement, resonance, and proximity. All events take place in the Deering Estate Theater, recently enhanced with updated projection, lighting, and surround sound capabilities. The theater serves as a cultural resource for the community, presenting a wide range of programs that include music, dance, film, and educational initiatives aligned with Deering Estate’s mission.\nSUBTROPICS: AUDIBLE FIELDS — SCHEDULE \nAll events take place on weekends at 4:00 PM\nAll events are free of charge with RSVP on Eventbrite ( https://www.eventbrite.com/o/17501086010 )\nAll events will be located at the Deering Estate Theater.\nSunday, July 26, 2026\nUnfinished Visions: Silent Film & Sightless Radio\nA program of expanded cinema and radio art exploring fragmentation, montage, and transmission across time.\nSaturday, August 1, 2026\nListening Club: Sound in Space\nThe Listening Club, created by Gustavo Matamoros, makes its Deering Estate debut with an episode dedicated to spatial listening.\nSunday, August 16, 2026\njamJamStrawberry: Strawberry Sweets ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jamjamstrawberry-strawberry-sweets-tickets-1989224742754?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true )\nAn immersive, durational performance by the experimental collective jamJamStrawberry, featuring Sony Mao and Emile Milgram with participation of Øivind Idsø.\n\nSunday, September 13, 2026\nAudible Systems: Held / Garet + Matamoros\nA program of intermedia works exploring sound, image, and perception as interconnected systems.\nSaturday, September 26, 2026\nThe Music of Julio Roloff\nA rare presentation of works by Miami-based composer Julio Roloff, featuring acoustic, electroacoustic, and computer music performed by the composer and guest musicians.\nAbout the Artists-in-Residence\nGustavo Matamoros is a Miami-based intermedia artist, composer, and curator working in experimental music, sound installation, and interdisciplinary performance. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he has been active in South Florida since 1979 and is the founding artistic director of the Subtropics Festival. His work explores listening as a spatial and perceptual practice through immersive and site-responsive environments. He is currently in residence at Florida International University’s i360 XR Theater and at Deering Estate Theater, supported by a Knight Arts Challenge award.\nFreddy Jouwayed is a Miami-based multimedia artist and exhibition designer and a resident artist at Deering Estate. His practice spans projection environments, multimedia installation, and exhibition design. For this series, he develops the multiscreen realization of ¡Que Viva México! materials and contributes visual projection and spatial image design across the programs.\nBarron Sherer, a Miami-based visual artist, works across moving image, projection, and immersive media. His practice explores light, abstraction, and perceptual experience through layered visual systems that respond to sound and spatial context. Drawing from both analog and digital processes, he creates dynamic visual environments that emphasize transformation, rhythm, and texture. For Subtropics: Audible Fields at Deering Estate, Sherer contributes live visual elements for Strawberry Sweets, in collaboration with Freddy Jouwayed.\nAbout the Participating Organizations\nSubtropics is a Miami-based platform dedicated to experimental music and sound art, presenting concerts, installations, and interdisciplinary projects that explore new approaches to listening and sonic experience.\nFrozen Music is a Miami-based experimental music collective dedicated to improvisation, sound exploration, and the presentation of alternative listening environments.\njamJamStrawberry is an experimental collaboration originating in early network-based music exchange between Sony Mao and Sawako. Known for its hybrid of granular synthesis, glitch aesthetics, and distributed collaboration, the project continues as a live and evolving performance platform integrating additional collaborators and expanded instrumentation.\nAbout All Participating Artists\nOlivia Block is a composer and sound artist whose work explores psychoacoustics, resonance, and site-specific listening. Her compositions often engage field recordings, electronic processing, and architectural space. She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Alvin Lucier Award.\nSergei Eisenstein (1898–1948) was a pioneering Soviet filmmaker and theorist whose work fundamentally shaped the language of cinema. Renowned for his development of montage as a compositional and expressive technique, his films—including Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible—redefined cinematic form through dynamic editing and visual structure. His unfinished project ¡Que Viva México! remains one of the most significant and influential works in the history of experimental and documentary cinema.\nRussell Frehling is a Miami-based sound artist and organizer whose work explores environmental sound, improvisation, and experimental listening practices. He is the founder of Frozen Music.\nRichard Garet is an intermedia artist working across sound, moving image, and installation. His practice engages signal, perception, and material transformation through hybrid analog and digital processes.\nBarbara Held is a Barcelona-based flutist and composer whose work focuses on the physical and spatial qualities of sound, integrating acoustic performance with electronic processing and installation.\nØivind Idsø was one of the original “Dropbox Darlings” whose file-sharing contributions were instrumental to jamJamStrawberry’s inception. By introducing “rough edges” into the project’s early file exchanges, Idsø helped define the duo’s signature “soft glitch” evolution through a unique tension of texture. He continues to sustain the group’s digital roots from Norway.\nStuart King is a trumpeter known for his work in contemporary and experimental music, performing across composed and improvisational contexts.\nJuraj Kojs is a Miami-based composer, performer, and multimedia artist whose work spans concert music, sound art, and interactive media, often integrating gesture, movement, and technology.\nSony Mao is an experimental sound artist and composer based in Miami and Los Angeles. Associated with microsound and tactical media practices, their work centers on granular synthesis, electroacoustic processes, and the intersection of sound and social context. They have released music on labels including Mille Plateaux, Fals.ch, and Rice & Beans, and have collaborated with artists such as Kim Cascone and Frank Metzger (Oval).\nEmile Blair Milgrim is a Miami-based multi-instrumentalist, archivist, and cultural organizer, and the founder of the Other Electricities label. Her work spans the “dream punk” rhythms of the band Las Nubes, to site-specific sound art with the duo Archival Feedback, reflecting a deeply community-driven approach to music-making. Milgrim frequently contributes live percussion and documentation to experimental projects, bridging performance and archival practice. She is actively involved in the Subtropics sound art community and is a co-founder of the Miami Girls Rock Camp. Additionally, she performs caixa with MiamiBloco’s Bateria Saideira, the largest Brazilian percussion orchestra in the United States.\nMoskitoo (a.k.a. Sanae Yamasa) is a Tokyo-based sound artist and musician, and a longtime collaborator within the JamjamStrawberry ecosystem. Known for her ethereal blending of organic instruments, vocals, and digital textures, she contributes to the project’s ongoing digital evolution. Her work has been featured on the second of the “Strawberry Sweets” and the forthcoming vinyl release, Strawberry Moon in Aspic.\nBruce Posner is a film historian, archivist, and curator specializing in avant-garde and experimental cinema. He is widely recognized for his work in the preservation, restoration, and reintroduction of historically significant non-narrative film. Posner played a key role in the reconstruction of Sergei Eisenstein’s ¡Que Viva México! and lived in Miami for many years, contributing to the city’s experimental film culture.\nAna Roloff is a flutist whose performance practice engages contemporary and experimental repertoire, with a focus on collaboration and new music performance.\nJulio Roloff is a Miami-based composer whose work spans acoustic, electroacoustic, and computer music, with a focus on structure, timbre, and sonic exploration.\nSawako (Sawako Kato) was a Tokyo-based electronic musician and multimedia artist known for her “soft glitch” aesthetic and immersive sound environments. Her work combined field recordings and digital processing and was widely released on labels including 12k and Mille Plateaux.\nAlfredo Triff is a violinist, composer, and writer based in Miami whose work spans classical, experimental, and improvised music, often engaging interdisciplinary and conceptual approaches.\nDavid Tudor (1926–1996) was a pianist and composer closely associated with John Cage and a central figure in the development of experimental and live electronic music. His work helped redefine performance as an open, systems-based process.\nGregory Whitehead is an award-winning radio artist, audio artist, and text-sound poet whose work has been broadcast internationally on outlets including the BBC, Radio France, Deutschland radio, ABC Australia, and NPR. A central figure in the resurgence of radio art since the 1980s, his practice explores voice, transmission, and the poetics of broadcast media. His work often navigates the tension between continuity and rupture, as well as the material instability of language and sound.\nAbout the Deering Estate\nDeering Estate, located at 16701 SW 72 Ave. in Miami, is a 21st-Century house museum, cultural and ecological field station, and a national landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, owned by the State of Florida and managed by Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department. Deering Estate is designated as one of seven Miami Dade County “Heritage Parks” which have a vital role in our community’s history, environment and in providing recreational and cultural experiences.\nCultural Arts Programming at the Deering Estate is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc. Programming in the Deering Estate theater is also possible thanks to The Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation.\nAbout the Deering Estate Foundation\nFor those who treasure the Deering Estate, who advocate for its preservation and wish to invest in its future, The Deering Estate Foundation provides opportunities for individuals and corporations alike to partake in membership, signature events, and one-of-a-kind experiences, all in service of providing vital funding and support to the Deering Estate. Through these efforts, the foundation fulfills its mission to uphold the legacy of Charles Deering’s cherished 1920s-era property, to provide funding for the cultural, educational and recreational experiences it offers, as well as its significant scientific and archaeological endeavors to conserve its diverse flora, fauna and the eight native ecosystems that thrive on its 450 acres, and to ensure its longevity as a prized American heritage site. Established in 1989, The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc. is a community-based charitable 501(c) 3 Florida Corporation and the philanthropic partner of the Deering Estate.\n# # #\nTo request materials in accessible format, sign language interpreters, and/or any accommodation to participate in any County-sponsored program or meeting, please contact Miami-Dade Parks ADA Coordinator at 305-755-7848 or email, Gisel.Prado@miamidade.gov, five days in advance to initiate your request. TTY users may also call 711 (Florida Relay Service).\n
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