Victor Afonso - Electronics, guitars, voices, programming, production.
Kubik live in Lisboa
Kubik live in Barcelos
Influences
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David Shea | Amon Tobin | Christian Marclay | Muslimgauze | Philip Glass | Holger Hiller | Suicide | Squarepusher | Aphex Twin | Prokofiev | Pascal Comelade | Raymond Scott | Danny Elfman | Harry Partch | Faust | Glenn Branca | La Monte Young | DJ Spooky | Ornette Coleman | Bob Ostertag | Can | Faust | Spike Jones | Einstürzende Neubauten | Negativland | Mouse on Mars | Secret Chiefs 3 | Mike Patton | Autechre | Edgar Varèse | Sofa Surfers | Pierre Schaeffer | Shellac | Luigi Russolo | Robert Fripp | Graeme Revell | DJ Rupture | Steve Albini | Brian Eno | Henry Mancini | Ennio Morricone | Naked City | Young Gods | Estradasphere | John Cage | DJ Shadow | Techno Animal | Matmos | Terry Riley | Kid 606 | Atom Heart | Fantômas | Spiritualized | Red Snapper | Foetus | Felix Kubin | Hedningarna | SPK | Spring Heel Jack | Spacemen 3 | DJ Shadow | Liars | Bill Frisell | Art Zoyd | Fred Frith | Kraftwerk | Tortoise | Trans Am | Derek Bailey | Ian Simmonds | Cabaret Voltaire | Deadelus | Coil | Nurse With Wound | Lightning Bolt | Psychic TV Barry Adamson | Ravi Shankar | Mr. Bungle | Throbbing Gristle Photek | Coldcut | Marc Ribot | Bernard Herrmann | Nino Rota | Pan Sonic | Jean Jaqcues Perrey | Luke Vibert | ...
CINEMA: Dziga Vertov / Eisenstein / Jean Vigo / Murnau / Fritz Lang / Buster Keaton / Luis Buñuel / Jean Cocteau / Tod Browning / Jacques Tati / Orson Welles / Alain Resnais / Maya Deren / Kubrick / Stan Brahkage / Sam Peckinpah / David Lynch / Chris Marker / Fellini / Visconti / Jan Svankmajer / Godfrey Reggio / Andrei Tarkovski / Godard / Sokurov / Peter Greenaway / Tim Burton / Kurosawa / Carl Dreyer / Michael Haneke / David Cronemberg / Ingmar Bergman / Ozu / Darren Aronofsky / Abel Ferrara / Pasolini / Scorsese / Béla Tarr / Joel Coen / Terry Gilliam / Antonioni / Wim Wenders / David Fincher / Almodovar / Larry Clark / and so many more...
Sounds Like
A weird mix of electronica, experimental, noise rock, IDM, sampling music, pop, lounge, hip-hop, sound poetry, world music, minimalism, tecno, breakbeat, easy listening and so on.
Welcome to weird and wacko music factory. I play guitar, bass and drums since the mid 80's. I have experience in very different styles, such as improvised, electro-acoustic, experimental, electronic, DJ, and indie rock. I also make original soundtracks for films, theatre, performances and video-art. I have two records released in 2001 - "Oblique Musique" and "Metamorphosia" in 2005. In May 2004, I was personally invited by Mike Patton to play the first part of the Fantômas concert in Lisbon. This what Mike Patton said about my second album: Metamorphosia is an amazing record. Kubik is moving into a particular universe, very special. It is a fantastic record and a fantastic music it is a monster!
I Also made original soundtracks for two surrealistic movies: "UN CHIEN ANDALOU" - Luis Bunuel /Salvador Dali; and "ENTR'ACTE" - Rene Clair. In May 2006, the new EP by Kubik: http://www.monocromatica.com/netlabel/ More info: kubik.com.pt (in portuguese!).
THIS IS ONE OF MY VIDEOS, DIRECTED BY GRURY AND WITH MY MUSIC "PROKO"!:
«Victor Afonso is a portuguese musician living in Guarda, a city lying near Serra da Estrela (Star Mountain) at some 1000 meters above the sea level. He has been releasing music under the name Kubik (2 albums) as well as in many other projects. Oblique Musique and Metamorphosia albums recorded as Kubik showed up a musician deeply inspired by cinema and also by a great variety of music, from eastern europe folk to contemporary drumnbass. This alloy allowed Kubik to develop a very personalized and surrealistic sound, which defies the listener imagination with a wave of references sequenced in a way that take shape in the form of musical pieces. Infinite Territory is his new release. It is a departure from earlier works, because here Victor Afonso decided to explore electronic music more close to the IDM genre. It is obvious from Infinite Territory that musicians like Amon Tobin or Aphex Twin play an important role as sources of inspiration. This EP is very well balanced between ambient soundscapes and bursts of drillnbass, showing Kubik at the maximum of his skills and inspiration. From phantasmagorical pieces like Bona Fide, to kinetically unstable tracks like Infernis, Plus Ultra and the surrealistic Non Hilum (perhaps the track more related with his previous works), Kubik shows up his personal view of what electronic music (or IDM) can be, with a great capability to create images in the mind of the listener, rather than being purely another kind of dance music. Infinite Territory is therefore a kind of a soundtrack of a lost science-fiction movie, lost in the outskirts of the galaxy (or, more precisely, of the mind), exploring lost territories and lost spirals that liewithin the more pristine forces of nature.» - César A. Laia
To listen or download the EP "Infinite Territory", click here:
http://www.monocromatica.com/netlabel/releases/tube043.htm
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FREE NEW EP ONLINE - "HOW BLUE WAS MY SKY" released by Mimi Records. Please download here - http://www.clubotaku.org/mimi/pt/album99.php
OI! Kubik, we've just dropped the new DnB hotness for 2010 w/ tunes from NOAH D, GREMLINZ, THE RIOT, CASTOR & ILL-ESHA, VECTOR BURN, AFLAME, GLITCH, PATTERN RECOGITION and more - it's ALL FIRE!
feat. BLACKSUGU Schwarz Weiß White Fang & the Aerobica Gang
Schwarz Weiß, enigmático dandy do hip-hop electrónico e do big beat, sofreu um acidente de ski, sendo substituído pelo seu colega de curso White Fang. WF, nascido nas encostas de Mount Logan, mudou-se para Toronto onde fundou o ginásio Gold Mine e desenvolveu a sua revolucionária dieta à base de panquecas e xarope de ácer. Provindo de um clima ártico, utiliza técnicas que resultam num output elevado de calor, retendo o máximo de líquidos.
Os Blacksugu são BlackBambi (Miguel Bonneville) e DJ Sugu (Susana Guardado), consagrados mestres aeróbicos das explosivas festas Blacksugu e das famigeradas Corvak Nights, no ginásio Europa, em Lisboa. De microfone em punho, o electrizante Miguel Bonneville vai fazer-nos saltar até à exaustão, enquanto a glamorosa DJ Sugu nos mostra a raça feminina com sonoridades electrizantes desde os 80's e 90's até à actualidade. Prometem técnicas novas performativas de improvisação, Go-Go Dancing e muita, muita loucura.
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Sábado dia 10 de Outubro é um dia como nós gostamos. Cheio de movimento.
À
tarde inaugura a exposição "papel sobre uma mesa" de Nuno Sousa Vieira
na SEDE (18.00h.) e à noite é a estreia mundial da produção do a9))))
"Música dos Osso para paisagens de Moçambique" (Teatro Miguel Franco,
Leiria, 21.30h.).
Sábado dia 10 de Outubro é um dia como nós gostamos. Cheio de movimento. À tarde inaugura a exposição "papel sobre uma mesa" de Nuno Sousa Vieira na SEDE (18.00h.) e à noite é a estreia mundial da produção do a9)))) "Música dos Osso para paisagens de Moçambique" (Teatro Miguel Franco, Leiria, 21.30h.).
