Victor
Gama
freedom of design is freedom of creation
Trio performing at
Deloitte Ignite Festival,
London 2012
Victor
Gama
in the post-digital age all instruments are unconventional
Portuguese Chamber Orchestra conducted by Pedro Carneiro,
Lisbon 2013
Victor
Gama
Acrux leaning towards a quasi-12 division-chromatic tunning system
Performance at MIT's Kresge Auditorium
Cambridge, USA 2013
Victor
Gama
Dino is a one string modern musical bow, played with a loop sampler
Performance at Paul Hamlyn House
London 2013
Victor
Gama
Kronos Quartet had to learn how to play six new instruments in a week
Rio Cunene
premiere at
Carnegie Hall
New York 201o
Victor
Gama
Rio Cubango, from the series Music for Rivers
with Zapp4 string qt.
premiere at
Concertgebow
Amsterdam 2011
Victor
Gama
3thousandRIVERS,
a new multi-media work for singers and chamber orchestra
3thousandRIVERS:prelude
at the 2013 Prince Claus Awards Ceremony
Amsterdam 2013
Victor
Gama
GigantikArpz,
10 strings 75 mt long across a lake
with Pedro Carneiro
Next Future Festival
Lisbon 2011
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making music with design as a new variable
Gama's meditative solo pieces for the metallic acrux evoked both the Balinese gamelan and Cage's prepared piano, while his studies for the gleaming toha had the sophisticated simplicity of Howard Skempton or Ludovico Einaudi...
John L. Walters, Guardian
Fantastic desert music from radical experimentalist Victor Gama on Naloga album ...
Louise Gray, New Internationalist
NALOGA
Naloga is an archeological site where the ruins of utopian dreams lay preserved by the dryness and silence of the desert. It's also a voyage across spaces and times of conflict, geographies that once collided with great impact propelled by the geopolitics of an era.
The album is composed for Gama's extensive range of musical instruments such as the toha, acrux, zulao, tahra, morcego, espi, several types of kissanges and 12 string guitar. Compositions, field recordings, interviews and research were done in Angola, South Africa, Namibia and Cuba for over a decade.
PANGEIA INSTRUMENTOS
The first Rephlex release to be completely devoid of electronics, Victor Gama's "Pangeia Instrumentos" is a beguiling collection of compositions specifically written for his own designed instruments. Slightly visually reminiscent of the Swiss-Brazilian instrument builder Walter Smetak's creations in the '40s, '50s, and '60s, and sonically somewhat related to Harry Partch's more widely celebrated constructions and compositions, Gama's instruments are often built for two to four simultaneous performers.
OCEANITES ERRATICUS
Oceanites Erraticus is a space journey to the island of Aisa Tanaf on the Eguanalan planet. The planet has some sort of life that manifests itself via the dreams of people who come in contact with it. The album is almost entirely dedicated to Gama's work for 12 string guitar using alternative tunings and various types of preparations.
ODANTALAN
Odantalan was an interdisciplinary music/art history exchange, produced in Angola. Art historians, anthropologists, philosophers, linguists, as well as religious leaders joined a work group of performing artists in the area of music, dance, photography, and graphic design in Luanda. The aim was to research and develop new creative work around concepts, ideas, and principles that draw upon a conscious recognition of Angola/Kongo knowledge systems that span the Atlantic and Pacific. This collaboration enabled such encounters as that of the Angolan marimba and the Colombian marimba from the Pacific, or that of the berimbau from Brazil and the ungu from Angola. Several improvisation and composition sessions took place combining those instruments with the Bata drums, the Pangeia Instrumentos and an array of percussion instruments from all the participating countries.