Instrumentos 4 da museum

One of the projects developed within the PANGEIA INSTRUMENTOS range of new musical instruments.

INSTRUMENTOS 4 DA MUSEUM
are four contemporary musical instruments designed and built by Portuguese/Angolan composer and instrument-maker Victor Gama for the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.



Each of the four instruments has been developed in dialogue with curators in response to the Jean Jenkins collection of musical instruments based at the museum – looking at issues of construction and sound production – and in keeping with the themes being developed in the Performance and Lives gallery in the new Royal Museum Project. The instruments have also been built in accordance with their ability to be played by the public in the resulting display.

In the last two years the project has taken Gama to four continents, visiting Colombia, Angola, India and Scotland, in his search for new materials, technologies and inspiration, as well as participating in conferences with the NMS curators in Cardiff and Calcutta (Kolkatta), India. Gama has used unique processes and technologies such as 3D modelling, CNC machining, laser-cutting and rapid prototyping in the design and construction of the musical instruments.



Here is Vulk – inspired on a volcano, made out of an oil drum with china cymbals on top as vibrating elements.


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