Gustavo Matamoros (Miami, Florida) is an experimental composer, performer, and sound installation artist, and the founder of the composer based group PUNTO. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1957, where he developed an interest in music through experimentation with short-wave radios and tape recorders, he has lived in the U.S. since 1979. His music and sound installations have been featured at The Latin American Music Festival and the III Encuentro de la Nueva Musica Electronica '91 in Caracas; the XV New Music Forum in Mexico City; and at numerous venues in the U.S. and Europe. Since 1989 he has been director of the South Florida Composer's Alliance and artistic director of the Subtropics New Music Festival in Miami. He co-directed the WORD(S)OUND festival of text-based sound works and poetry for the 19th Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is the producer of FISHTANK Radio Journal of New and Experimental Music on WLRN in Miami.