Gavin Gamboa | Music

Mexican-American composer/pianist
based in Los Angeles, California, United States

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music composition across eons • self-released discography

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gavcloud Gavin Gamboa

A colorful print of a flower against a white background, with the album title and artist name rotated 90º set close to the right margin.

Carlos Chávez ⎮ Sonatina

The image features several human-like figures and surreal creatures, depicted in a style reminiscent of Cubism. The composition includes geometric shapes and intersecting lines, creating a dynamic and fragmented scene.

Trois Esquisses de 2014

A 3D rendering of a man seated at a piano facing the frontwards with large planets and stars surrounding him set against a black background.

Austin & The Endless Planetary

A painting of an rural 18th century street scene in Austria.

Beethoven ⎮ Sonata 30

Facsimile of the opening bars of music notation from Ferruccio Busoni's original manuscript of his transcription of J.S. Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 565.

Bach-Busoni ⎮ Toccata & Fugue in D minor

The image features a detailed view of the interior mechanisms of a piano, showcasing strings, tools, and various objects scattered around. Superimposed on this image is a large, bold text in white and blue, reading: "The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine."

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine

A photo of the artist with a picture-in-picture of a video frame of imperial Vienna covering his head, agaisnt a dark background.

Reliquie · a Sonata by Franz Schubert & Ernst Krenek

A photograph of a 5th century ornate jewlery glassworks, against a black background.

An image of a fake cover to a score generated by Midjourney modelled after Schubert's Trout Quintet title page, with nonsense letterings and the title embedded into the image subtly.

Der Verstiegenheit Quartett

An abstract digital image generated by DALL·E 2, showing a visualization of infrapuncture, hyper stylized and showing how small-scale interventions have a catalytic effect on the whole.

Infrapuncture III

The image captures a musician playing a piano, seen from above. The photograph is edited to create a layered effect, showing multiple instances of the pianist's hands on the keys.

The image is a blue-toned illustration reminiscent of classical Renaissance art. It features three nude figures and an angelic figure with wings. The figures are depicted with detailed musculature and flowing hair, suggesting a sense of movement and interaction.

Detail of The Butterfly and the Pond by Rodolphe Bresdin, 1868

Wall Stone Craft

The cover of the original first edition of J.S. Bach's Partita II.

Bach ⎮ Partita II

An abstract 3D rendering of liquid meshes and lattices.

Quadratic Lattice • with Max Jaffe

A painting by Reijer Stolk depiciting two wood carvings in the shape of ghostly apparitions with exaggerated expressions on their faces.

Ligeti ⎮ Rachmaninoff

An abstract 3D rendering of liquid meshes and lattices.

Puzzle Weasel • with Frank Moka

A picture of a text editor displaying code written in the TidalCycles syntax, with a section of Holy Herndon's face and blue colored eye appearing on the very right margin of the image.

+ Convexity Effect

A red-tinted photograph of Frédéric Chopin's face with some digital displacement distortion over the lower part of his face.

Chopin ⎮ Eight Pieces

$A 3D graphical rendering of yellow coral-like forms and a cluster of refracted red light on transparent human limbs in a jumble in the upper right.$

+【 1 ( O ) p ⎟ us 】

Film poster for Polia & Blastema, depicting two cosmic beings in an embrace, floating above the sun justified along the bottom margine with the firmament in the background and the film's title center-justified.

Announcing ⎯ Polia & Blastema ⎯ a cosmic opera

The image is a monochromatic illustration with a yellow tint, depicting a scene that combines elements of the macabre and the scholarly. In the foreground, there is a large skull and an open book with visible text.

Zigzagging Syntax

The original cover in Bach's handwriting for The Well-Tempered Clavier.

Second Assortment of The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I

An illustration of the Erykah Badu scarab against a green backround with artist and album titles rotated 90º on both the left and right margins.

Apocalypse Two ⎮ Sounds For The Quarantine Concert Series

A monochromatic triptych of a photograph of George Enescu.

The Pillow Book of Hours

A painting of an 18th century street scene in Vienna.

Beethoven ⎮ Sonata à Joseph Haydn

A collage of the artist as a photograph and illustrated portrait amalgam with a map of Amsterdam in the background and a floral arrangement accent in the upper right.

Live at RHO Hotel Amsterdam

A spherical illustration of a floral arrangement in the center of the artwork, with a red border around the edges.

13,013 Fragmented Impromptus

A still from the film Cobra Verde depicting the open Atlantic ocean.

Guèbrou ⎮ The Song of The Sea

$A 3D rendering of two Julia set fractals, one above the other, textured in light grey against a white background.$

Transmogrificantus III

The image is a collage of three different vintage wallpaper patterns, each featuring floral designs in vibrant colors.

The image has a dark, abstract design featuring intricate, mesh-like patterns overlaying a partially obscured face. The colors are predominantly dark, with hints of teal and green adding some contrast. The overall aesthetic is complex and mysterious, giving a sense of depth and texture.

The Quantæ of Káryyn

A detail from the still life painting The Overturned Boquet by Abraham Mignon (1679) displaying a floral arrangement.

ANTI ANTI-CIRCUMVENTION

An amalgam of multiple engravings from John Martin's Paradise Lost, creating impossible landscapes of vistas within caverns and forests.

RQM après-Berlioz

A monochromatic photograph of Alexander Scriabin and Tatiana Schloezer, seated on the grass with the Oka River in the background. Scriabin is holding an open umbrella in one hand.

Scriabin ⎮ Sonata-Fantasy

A photograph of a ruined dome structure on the rooftop of a building, with lots of blue tones in the sky and reflected off the concrete.

Teufelsberg Tower

The image is a surreal portrait of a man with a mustache and intense eyes, rendered in a minimalist, sketch-like style. The upper part of the portrait is surrounded by an explosion of abstract, colorful paint streaks and textures, including elements resembling crumpled paper and net-like patterns.

Trees Leaping Greenly Toward Sky True Dream Ears Awake

An amalgam of the death mask of Joseph Haydn and a photograph of Claude Debussy holding an umbrella emerging out of the lower left cheek of Haydn, monochromatic.

Debussy ⎮ Haydn

A woman on stage with two vertical screens behind her displaying a golden orange orb, spit down the middle as the screens are separated in space from one another.

A painting by Remedios Varo titles Vampiros vegetarianos. The painting is a surrealist depiction of a group of vampires in a forest. The vampires are not attacking humans, but rather are feeding on fruit. The painting is in a dark, muted color palette with a lot of detail. The painting is signed in the bottom right corner with the artist's name and the year 1962.

José Pablo Moncayo ⎮ Tres Piezas

A photograph of a vocal tenor surrounded by string players and a colorful sculpture.

1416 ㎥ (Double Quartet Version)

A colorful, abstract digital painting with an emphasis on warm colors.

Odas A La Luz Encantada

A collage of the faces of Ludwig van Beethoven and György Ligeti overlayed on top of each other.

Beethoven Ligeti Abereations

An abstract, cubist painting by Fernand Léger, depiciting vaugely machinic and mechanical forms.

Music For Kitchens : Volume Two

Detail from the painting Willow Mill by Albrecht Dürer, 1498.

Scarlatti ⎮ Two Sonatas

The image is an aerial view of a landscape featuring winding rivers, lush greenery, and large, billowing clouds.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

A detail from the painting *Temptation of St. Anthony* by Hieronymus Bosch, 1505.

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right way was lost.

A detail from Raphael's The Transfiguration, showing christ ascending towards heaven.

Principium Individuationis

Dance With The Devil In The Pale Moonlight

A print by Liaizon Wakest of small circles slightly overlapping and deviating from eachother to form an impression of a wider circle.

A portrait of young Ludwig van Beethoven with short hair colored red and blue in the style of pop art.

Beethoven ⎮ Opus 2 Number 3

The image is a textile art piece, featuring a circular frame containing a woven landscape. The scene depicts a tree and foliage crafted from various yarns and fibers in shades of green, brown, and beige, giving a textured, three-dimensional effect.

Urgency Apparatus

A painting by Beth Hagenbuch of a forest landscape with psychedelic colors of red, orange, yellow, and green.

A photograph of a conductor as he conducts a string orchestra in a dark room with a screen and projected abstract, colorful visuals on the upstage wall.

1685 • Shadow Owes Its Birth To Light

A an ornamental print from the 19th century, with mandala-like shape and complexity.

Piece For Samuel LaBudde

A photograph of the dancer Josseline Black, crouching with her hand placed on her leg, with scattered papers and hanging decorations around her.

Metabird : Our Ethology

A distorted version of a famous portrait of Chopin by Eugène Delacroix.

Chopin ⎮ Four Pieces

An image of a girl making drinks in a kitchen with a 1950s futuristic refrigerator with the doors open.

Music For Kitchens : Volume One

The image depicts a vintage scene of elegantly dressed people in a theater balcony. They appear to be watching a performance, with expressions of interest and engagement. The background includes ornate golden decorations and red curtains, giving a luxurious and classic atmosphere. Overlaid on this scene is an abstract, colorful drawing that resembles a chaotic, tangled mass with eyes, adding a surreal and contrasting element to the otherwise refined setting.

The Velocipedic Age

A digitally fragmented amalgam of Manuel Ponce and George Frideric Händel.

Ponce ⎮ Händel

A false color image showing Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi in a 90º rotation with mirroring down the center.

A photograph of a performance with the artist holding and singing into a mask, with the background walls decorated in elaborate hanging sheets of paper.

La Bibliothèque Fantastique

A painting by Keren Oo, with drippy, mesmeric colors and forms, with a highlight of pink and purple against black and white in the background.

Discovery of New Species

A postcard from Mexico dated circa 1950s showing a sunny downtown street scene.

Boleros Interrumpidos

A photograph of young Johannes Brahms with an extrusion over his left eye that shows successive layers moving forward, in the style colorful style of pop art.

Brahms ⎮ Ballade IV

An illustration by Micah Nelson depicting Gnomes and smiling Trolls and other enchantments.

Among Gnomes & Trolls

The image features a worker in a traditional henequen plantation in Yaxcopoil, Yucatán. The worker, dressed in white and wearing a straw hat, is feeding long strands of henequen fibers into a mechanical processing machine with large gears.

An glitchy, and colorful digital manipulation of an 18th century engraving of a piano lesson with an instructor and two seated players at a keyboard instrument.

Musik Störungen die dem Empfindsamen Stil entspringen

A monochromatic photograph of a statue of Chopin with a find edges filter applied to it.

Chopin ⎮ Fantaisie

$A 3D rendering of a Julia set fractal, textured in light grey against a white background.$

Transmogrificantus II

A detail from a painting depicting a medieval choir inside of a church.

Morphologies On A Work By Gunnar Karel Másson

A painting of an 18th century street scene in Vienna.

Beethoven ⎮ Sonata 27

A photograph of Prince during a performance, close-up with his eyes and hands raised towards the sky.

A screenshot of a terminal stdout window with blue background and white text showing a trace in a network.

A detail of the painting Resurrection by Albrecht Altdorfer (1518) showing a verdant landscape in the foreground and lush greens and reds receding into the distant vista in the background.

Awaken Dimensional Crimson

An abstract digital image of biomedical origin.

A photograph of a flooded street in New Orleans, Louisiana, flipped upside down.

The Flooding Of New Orleans

The image features a violin attached to a complex mechanical apparatus, suggesting a blend of traditional musical instruments with modern technology. The photograph is artistically altered with fragmented, angular cuts that distort and multiply parts of the violin and machinery, creating a visually dynamic and somewhat abstract representation.

Vectorial Monody

A photograph of a bust of young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a black background.

Mozart ⎮ Klaviersonaten 4 • 6

A detail from a monochromatic photograph showing an urban setting with people in the background in 19th century attire.

Notes On Cybism ⎮ Cybism Reconsidered ⎮ An Afterword

A stone sculpture of a face with a bird's eye view of a river system overlayed onto it.

Mapping The Rivers' Unconscious ⎮ String Quartet I

A photograph from a tall building looking down over a suburb in winter. The sky is overcast and the ground is covered in snow. The photograph is taken from a high angle, and the buildings are small and distant.

Three Scenes In Winter

A dark blue collage showing the steeple of a gothic Czech church and an engraving of a musical wheel in the background.

Sculptrex after Teilhard de Chardin

A false color image the conductor Christopher Rountree.

Rountree Convexations

The image is an abstract line drawing featuring three overlapping figures. The figures have expressive faces with large eyes and hold objects resembling guns. The drawing style is loose and dynamic, using black lines for the primary shapes with accents of pink, blue, and yellow lines adding depth and complexity.

This Precious Paralysis

A collage of a painting of an 18th century Vienna urban setting and a line drawing.

Beethoven ⎮ Grande sonate pathétique

The image is a detailed and vibrant mandala, likely of Tibetan Buddhist origin. It features an intricate, symmetrical design with concentric layers radiating from a central point. The mandala includes elaborate architectural motifs resembling temples, surrounded by various symbols, deities, and patterns.

The image is of a group of penguines congregated on a beach, with the hollowed-out wooden wreakage of a ship's hull in the background.

Voyages and Wanderings in Far-off Seas and Lands

An illustration of two monkeys, one brown on the left and one darker colored on the right, ascending a bare tree branch against a beige background.

A lithograph by Silvia Barbotto, showing a vaguely coral reef-like structure of organic growth and form.

Take Me To That Place Where I Know Nothing

An engraving of the starry firmament, encapsulated in a circle that stretches to the image's margins, and set against a beige background.

A collage of a artist's rendering of the surface of Mars depiciting human settlements and bases, and a real photograph of the Martian sky.

Dōgen's Garden On The Surface Of Mars

A lithograph by Silvia Barbotto, showing a vaguely coral reef-like structure of organic growth and form.

String Trio I : Into The Magnificent Sea, I Dispose Of Thee

An aerial view of a dense urban area with a fire and smoke cloud casting a large shadow over the city in the distance.

Territory of the Nine Pollutants

The image shows a facsimile of a page from the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad, which is the oldest complete manuscript of the Iliad. The text is written in two columns.

An image that shows a densely layered collapse of multiple staves of music notation.

Quartet Forensics

A 19th century monochromatic photograph of an urban landscape with trams, old Ford Model A, horse-drawn wagons, and people visible.

A lithograph by Silvia Barbotto, showing a vaguely coral reef-like structure of organic growth and form.

Tausendvierhundertsechzehn

A photograph of plant and shrubs amidst rocks in the desert.

Esthetogenesis ⎮ Hamakhaave

The image is a collage combining various scientific and abstract elements: microscopic images showing clusters of cells illuminated in blue and red hues, likely captured through fluorescence microscopy; mathematical equations and formulas related to physics or engineering, written in a clear, academic style.

Three Regular Axioms

A painting of an 18th century street scene in Vienna.

Beethoven ⎮ Sonata ‘Quasi una fantasia’ II

An abstract painting with frenzied brushstrokes.

The image is an abstract artwork featuring a dense, vibrant mix of colors resembling a forest or garden. Predominantly, the colors range from deep reds to soft pinks, with hints of white and orange, creating a rich, textured appearance.

The Anatomical Exercises (for Ersatz String Quartet)

The image is of a map of Iraq set against a beige background.

Two Canons and Cadenza for Sérgio Vieira de Mello

A graphic representation of three human heads in 1980s style green wireframe mesh, with the stars in the background.

Canciones de mi padre que han sido completamente deconstruido y vuelto a montar

An engraving of a pastoral scene by a river, with a bridge and a city visible in the background.

First Assortment of The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I

An abstract painting with frenzied brushstrokes.

Humoresques For The Verge Of Sanities

The image is an abstract artwork featuring vertical black lines that resemble drips or streaks, with a dense area of white lines interwoven within the black. Below this, a bold horizontal red stripe adds a striking contrast.

Two Views From Mount Eden

An baroque engraving of the moments prior to an execution by beheading.

Into Tears Is How I'll Melt Away

An engraving showing a circular wheel covered in rich ornaments set on top of a background of musical notation.

Chanson-Tombeaux sans paroles pour Athanasius Kircher

An illustration of ornamental organic patterns by Furuya Korin, (1904) … dark background with elements of blue, green and red.

Demo Team Derivations

An ornamental print from the 19th century, with mandala-like shape and complexity.

Partita No. 1 ‘Zircon’

A nineteenth century engraving by Japanese Katsushika Hokusai which shows a red mountain and a blue sky with clouds.

¡He aquí! ¡El Volcán!

A collage of Picasso's sketch of Igor Stravinsky and a drawing of of Maurice Ravel, set against a photograph of the two composers faintly in the background.

Stravinsky ⎮ Ravel

A photograph of a white house designed by architect Adolph Loos.

Alban Berg ⎮ Klaviersonate Op. 1

A painting of an 18th century street scene in Vienna.

Beethoven ⎮ Sonata ‘Quasi una fantasia’ I

A satellite image of the Leo IV galaxy.

A detail from a painting depicting a medieval choir inside of a church.

Modus Futurus Posterus Machina

A scientific diagram of magnetic properties and electrical charge.

Book of Magnetic Inquiries

A digital illustration of a grapefruit, sliced in half.

Fresh, Fleshy Grapefruit

A 3D rendering of an alien-looking being from the animated film Anamnesia (Strangeloop).

A photograph of a landscape at dusk with a tree in the foreground with heavy clouds low in the sky.

Bartók ⎮ Schubert

A cloudy background with an image of the moon of Uranus, Nereid, with the album's title in large font.

Wind Quintet ⎮ ‘NEREID’

An abstract painting with frenzied brushstrokes.

A collage of a painting of Franz Schubert alongside a black & white photograph of Tony Conrad with dense foliage and a snake curling through it in the foreground.

A Minor Schubert For Tony Conrad

An illustration with three circle busts: from left to right, Gavin Gamboa, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Anton Diabelli, against a black background.

Beethoven ⎮ Diabelli Variations

An pixelated image of a circular form with bezier curved lines coming off the top and bottom and the album title center justified in an ornate font.

'Cantemos hoy, mañana moriremos' : Album Leaf for David Alfaro Siqueiros

A minimal cover design with the title accented with outlines made of white lines and four solitary floating orbs of various colors and sizes.

Unquestioned Images In The Age Of Iconophilic Seduction

An abstract image with grids and oraganics overlayed over each other, with the album title rotated 90º clockwise and left-justified.

10,010 Fragmented Impromptus

A photograph of a music stand with a score on it and violins and bows visible in the foreground and background.

Sextet for Six Stringed Instruments

A photograph of a Cambodian soldier during the 1960s with weaponry and ammunition clearly visible.

Cadres! Find The Hidden Enemies Burrowing From Within!