Victor Gama(I)
- Composer
- Music Department
Victor Gama (Angola 1960) is a composer, performer, designer of innovative musical instruments as well as an electronics engineer. He holds a BSc in electronics engineering and an MA in Music Technology from the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design in London and was recently artist fellow at the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts at Stanford University and at MIT Center for Art Science and Technology. Gama has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet who premiered his piece 'Rio Cunene' at Carnegie Hall in March 2010. 'Rio Cubango', commissioned by the the Prince Claus Fund and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts premiered in November 2011 at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as part of the series 'Música para Rios'. In 2012 a commission by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra resulted in "Vela 6911" a piece for an ensemble of musicians of that orchestra premiered at Harris Theatre, Chicago in 2012 and staged on the 20th of January 2013 at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
He has exhibited his instruments and sound installations and performed extensively in Africa, Latin America, USA, Canada and Europe, having received a Project Development Award by Visiting Arts/British Council for his exhibition and performance at Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast.
Among several albums and recordings for dance and film, his album Pangeia Instrumentos was released by Aphex Twin on Rephlex Records. Naloga is a recent compilation of works specially released for the exhibition INSTRUMENTOS staged at the Royal Opera House in London in summer 2012 and at the Fundación Carlos De Amberes in Madrid in November 2012.