Victor Nubla, who already performed in Experimentaclub'00 next to Antón Ignorant and who now repeats in 2005 with a very personal Dj session, is one of the more relevant figures of the experimental music scene in our country. Restless as few artists, Nubla is a musician, essayist, activist of the experimentation, writer, ideologist, programmer, occasional Dj, editor, to summarise: an agitator, whose trajectory has been fundamental in the vanguard scene of Barcelona during the last thirty years.
Nubla was next to Juan Crek one of the original members of Macromassa, group founded in 1976, experimenting with electronic variations of the wind instruments and of the voice through a very particular interpretation of rock, jazz, industrial music, the noise and minimalism. The long trajectory of Macromassa reaches until 1997 with the apparition of their last album "Puerta Heliogábal". More than forty records and a hundred concerts were the result of those twenty-one years of free and radically personal creation.
His soloist work starts in 1980 founding the Laboratorio de Música Desconocida (Laboratory of Unknown Music) and working in the improvisation field, the electronic improvisation, sonorous atmospheres, installations and music for cinema, video, theatre and contemporary dance. After publishing in 1986 "Delirio de Dioses" next to Antón Ignorant (LP of only one side, Frenetic Records) and already in 1993 associating with Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga to record together "Galvana", Victor Nubla starts in that same year 93 a new phase of reflection on his creative work, focusing his investigation on the electronic processing of wind instruments, designing systems aimed to allow the playing of clarinets (his original instrument) without the need to blow or manipulate them, obtaining at the same time complex sounds, controlled in all their parameters. These techniques were developed in his solo performances up until 1995, producing with the clarinets a wide sample of unusual sounds in real time.
In this year 95 appears the first CD of the project MCO ("Método de Composición Objetiva"-Method of Objective Composition), whose origin dates from 1987: a sound construction project using chance and sonorous sampling as a system. Encouraged by the release of this first recording work of the series, Nubla decides to continue with the project, and at present he still works with it. "Piedra Nombre" (95, edited by G3G, recorded in between 1989 and 1992), "La vía iluminada" (99, Zanfonia), "Elogio de la misantropía" (99, Zanfonia, the same as the previous one, but including works done until 1997), "El blando recibo de las especies" (99, Zanfonia, with material recorded from 1998 to 1999) and "Sleca" (2000, album only available in mp3 format published by Experimentaclub and Vitaminic inside the "Discos Virtuales" collection), were the first five volumes of this series.
Already in this new decade, Nubla has succeeded in both the continuation of his soloist career and in the development of other joint projects such as Dedo (next to Io Casino). "Seven Harbour Scenes", "Neige" and "Empuries", all edited by his recording company Hronir Label. He also completed a CD with Tibetan Red ("Tao Point", Hronir Label) and another with Robin Storey: "About Breathing" (Caciocavallo / Soleilmoon).
Victor Nubla is also founder of Gràcia Territori Sonor (trans-European project created to impulse the circulation of non-habitual artists, ideas and music through European cities). Amongst their activities the Festival LEM de Barcelona has a special importance.

F. Metamars

as Victor Nubla:

• Piedra Nombre (CD, G3G, 1995)
• La Vía Iluminada (CD, Zanfonia, 1999)
• Elogio de la Misantropía (CD, Zanfonia, 1999)
• El blando recibo de las especies (CD, Zanfonia, 1999)
• Sleca (MP3 exclusive edition, "Discos Virtuales" Experimentaclub / Vitaminic, 2000)
• A las nueve y media intenté el experimento de lanzar un puñado de plumas por la válvula hacia el exterior - fragmento (Book-Record "Laboratorio", El Europeo, 2001)
• Hammerhead: The Secret Journey of Elidan Marau Thru the Milky Sea (Mini-CDr, The Bside Project / Testing Ground, 2001)
• Seven Harbour Scenes (CD, Hronir Label)
• Victor Nubla & Tibetan Red: Tao Point (CD, Hronir Label)
• Victor Nubla & Robin Storey: About Breathing (CD, Caciocavallo / Soleilmoon)
• Antichton (w. Robin Storey, Pascal Comelade, Io Casino, Francisco López, Evru, Antón Ignorant, Babel Agatha) (CD, Hronir Label, 2003)
• Neige (CD, Hronir Label)
• Empuries (CD, Hronir Label)
• Victor Nubla & Pascal Comelade: Les Places de Gràcia (box w. cd + writings + drawings + pictures)
• Clarinets: catàleg d'usos simbòlics (CD, Hronir Label, 2007)

as Universonormal:

• Oigo Voces (CD, Línea Alternativa, 1998)
• Bar du Nil (CD, Hazard Records, 1999)

Dedo (Victor Nubla - Io Casino):

• Momento Cero (CD, Hronir Label, 2003)
• Avatar (CD, Hronir Label, 2004)
• Resumen de Movimientos (CD, Hronir Label, 2006)

others:

• Pelayo Arrizabalaga / Victor Nubla: Galvana (CD, 1993)
• Nubla & Ignorant: Delirio de Dioses (LP, Frenetic Records, 1986)
• Victor Nubla: Le Beau Danuble Bleu (LP, various artists)
• Victor Nubla: Voices, Notes + Noise (LP, various artists)
• Victor Nubla: La Zona (LP, various artists)
• Victor Nubla: Noise Club Uno (CD, Por Caridad, various artists, 1994)

Books:

• La Nueva Música (Ed. Teorema)
• Los Hechos Pérez (con Juan Crek) (Ediciones del Khan)
• Mi Pueblo (La Espiral de Ediciones)
• Sociedad Bianual Ronchis (Manufacturas Marte)
• Tratado sobre los frenos (Ediciones del Khan)
• Cinc receptes amb fetge de rap (L'Estamperia)
• Clariaudiencias (Biblioteca para Misántropos)

" 'Piedra Nombre' is shaped as an altarpiece where the experimentation, the sampling and the electronics form an alliance to create worlds between the dream and the nightmare.../... There is no place for the self-satisfaction but for the transgression, which is channelled through a non-academic conception of the electro-acoustics, based on the use of the sampler as a central element of the composition and on the relegation of the melodies and rhythms. Unsuitable for frail stomachs." (Javier Blánquez - ROCK DE LUX)

SPAD (excerpt)

No es una alfombra de hojas, es un destornillador (excerpt)