Victor Gama. Credit: Najib Nafib.

Victor Gama

Victor Gama’s work addresses the relationship between instrument building and music composition, while using new technologies and the creative practices of Africa and the Diaspora.
A man plucks strings on a large instrument made of wood and strings.
Victor Gama plays the TOHA, 2012. Credit: Niklas Zimmer.

Visiting Artist Victor Gama Creates Futuristic New Instruments

Victor Gama is a composer whose process begins with the creation of an entirely new instrument, one whose design is steeped in symbolic meaning. Concept design, the selection of materials, fabrication, and scoring is all part of the rigorous way Gama creates new music for the 21st century, blending current fabrication technologies with ideas, materials, and traditions inspired by the natural world.