from Alternate African Reality – Electronic, electroacoustic and experimental music from Africa and the diaspora, released January 29, 2020
Victor Gama (Angola)

Victor Gama was born in Angola and currently lives between Luanda, Lisbon and Bogotá. His work of musical composition intersects areas as diverse as music, image, field recording, audiovisual installation and the design of contemporary musical instruments. Gama has been commissioned work by ensembles and institutions such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Kronos Performing Arts Association, the National Museums of Scotland, the Tenement Museum in New York, Prince Claus Fonds, the Amsterdam Fonds for the Arts, the Royal Opera House of London or the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

A graduate in Electronics Engineering and a Master's degree in Organology and Music Technology from the Sir John Cass College of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University, he was recently guest artist at the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in California and the MIT Center for Arts Science and Technology.

He composed for the Kronos Quartet who premiered his piece “Rio Cunene” at the Carnegie Hall in New York with a European premiere at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. The multimedia piece “Vela 6911” premiered at the Harris Theater in Chicago commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra / MusicNOW and the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Vela 6911 was further presented at the Dinkelspiel Auditorium in Stanford and at the Haus der Kultur der Welt in Berlin. Gama's multimedia opera “3 thousand RIVERS” commissioned by the Prince Claus Fund and the Gulbenkian Foundation premiered in Lisbon in 2016 and in Bogotá in 2017.

"Aisa Tanaf: the Book of Winds" premiered in February 2017 at the Kennedy Center with musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra directed by Edwin Outwater. Gama has been at the origin of projects such as Berimbau - Ungu with Naná Vasconcelos and Kituxi touring in Southern Africa, the Folk Songs Trio with New York musicians William Parker and Guillermo E. Brown, Odantalan with Barbararo Martinez - Ruiz and Hugo Candelario, and the Makakata Exchange in South Africa with Diso Platges and the Kalahari Surfers. In 1997 he started Tsikaya, an online platform of musicians from the interior of Angola. Among several works, Pangeia Instruments was released by Aphex Twin on Rephlex Records, Naloga, Oceanites Erraticus and Quatro Momentos were released by his own label PangeiArt.
www.victorgama.org
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