VELA 6911 - VICTOR GAMA @ STANFORD UNIVERSITY

This concert at Dinkelspiel on March 6th 2015 is a special occasion as the idea to compose Vela 6911 started at Stanford University in 2010 when Gama was a SICA Arts Visitor at the Humanities Center. Valuable contributions during the research phase of this project were provided by Stanford University Libraries and specifically by librarian, Regina Roberts. The piece was subsequently commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and premiered at Harris Theater in 2012. It was presented at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon in 2013, in Luanda, Angola in 2014 and Berlin at HKW in 2016. Vela 6911’s video component was shot in Antartica by Gama in January 2012. In 2013, Gama gifted all of his Vela 6911 research and production content materials to the Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University Libraries. This collection features 507 videos, 3,093 high-resolution photographs, 600 research documents, scanned original scores and performance information. This concert is supported by the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford Music and Stanford University Libraries.