Victor Nubla
From Unearthing The Music
Victor Nubla (b. Barcelona, 28 July 1956 - d. 31 March 2020) was a Spanish writer, composer and musician.
Biography
Victor Nubla was a writer, composer, musician, illustrator and graphic designer. He also wrote narratives, essays and poetry, as well as opinion columns in the press and texts on gastronomy. Between 2009 and 2011 he was co-director of the Marabunta magazine.
As a musician, he worked with the clarinet, both acoustic and electronically processed, the sampler, and the synthesizer. He has collaborated with numerous musicians throughout his career, including Francisco López, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Tim Hodgkinson, Jochen Arbeit, Robin Storey and Clónicos. He was one of the original members of the laboratory group Macromassa, founded in 1976, experimenting with electronic modifications of the wind instruments and voice through the advanced or unknown ways of rock, jazz, industrial music, noise or minimal. More than 40 recordings and hundreds of concerts are the product of those years. His solo work started in 1980, founding the Laboratorio de Musica Desconocida (Unknown Music Laboratory) and working in improvisation, electronic experiments, soundscape, installations and music for cinema, video, theatre and contemporary dance.
He was a founding member of the Bel Canto Orchestra and the European Improvisers Orchestra. He also composed music for dance, theater and cinema. He is the director of the international experimental music festival LEM, organized by Gràcia Territori Sonor, an entity of which he has been a founding member since 1996. In the visual field, he was responsible for the visual identity of the LEM Festival and has done the same work for other events, such as the Le Bruit de la Neige festival, as well as numerous album covers and illustrations for the Marabunta and Les Males Herbes magazines.