Audible Systems: Held / Garet + Matamoros

A program of intermedia works exploring sound, image, and perception as interconnected systems.

Date: Sunday, September 13th, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Deering Estate Theater
7220 SW 168th Street
Palmetto Bay, FL 33157
Tickets: Free of charge, RSVP on Eventbrite required.

Barbara Held and Richard Garet – Nine Movements (2024) A durational audiovisual work structured in nine interrelated sections, developed through an open and iterative collaborative process. Flute, analog synthesis, and field recordings interact with moving image processes that explore luminosity, signal behavior, and temporal transformation. Sound and image unfold in reciprocal exchange, forming a continuously shifting perceptual environment.

Gustavo Matamoros – Tone Poem in Surround (2025) A work for amplified text, small piano sounds, and radio speech presented in surround sound. Combining live writing, intimate physical gestures, and shortwave transmissions, the piece unfolds as a sequence of brief sonic events — “audibles” — defined by texture, action, and spatial presence. Speech, memory, and interference intersect within a layered acoustic field.

Gustavo 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.

Barbara 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.

Richard 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.

Deering 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.

Cultural 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.

For 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.

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To 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, [email protected], five days in advance to initiate your request. TTY users may also call 711 (Florida Relay Service).

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