Ben Vida
The Beat My Head Hit
Huge Tip! Where Ben Vida’s music has previously explored the sound of text at the outer register of electronic composition, here, in collaboration with the Yarn/Wire quartet and the vocalist Nina Dante, the voice and the words it works to inhabit are…
Murmurations
Tip! Comprising 10 tracks of creative expression, veteran experimentalists, Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci, deliver “Murmurations”, their first release as a duo, incorporating live tape manipulation, modular synthesis, sampling, and real-time instrumental…
E.S.P. TV Lifestyle Guru Pt. 2 : Soft Systems Music
Ben Vida’s “Soft Systems Music”, using facial recognition software as a compositional tool (!)
Leaving
**Glass mastered CD • 6-panel digisleeve (coated 350gms cardboard)** Operating between Italy in Japan, since its founding in 2018, 901 Editions has carved a singular path through the landscape of experimental sound. Like its predecessor, Farmacia901,…
Umwelt
Bocian Records presents Umwelt by Lucio Capece (Gema): on bass clarinet, slide saxophone, cardboard tubes, analog synthesiser and filter, and Ben Vida (Bird Show/ASCAP): on Synthesis, sampling and digital arranging. Recorded in Brussels, Berlin, New …
Vertice
Edition of 300 copies. Comes in a bespoke dye-cut sleeve, cover art by Monika Baer. The LP was mastered by Taylor Deupree and includes an essay by François J. Bonnet aka Kassel Jaeger, director of the GRM. New York’s Fridman gallery re-activates its …
Feel Anything
Edition of 200 copies. Fractal, electro-acoustic improv from NYC’s Marina Rosenfeld and Ben Vida, conjuring a steeply layered investigation of proprioception and dreamtime psyches... Marking Marina’s first appearance since the resoundingly unusual e…
Damaged Particulates
Ben Vida's Damaged Particulates LP represents the conclusion of one body of work, Damaged Particulates, and the beginnings of a new long form project titled Reducing The Tempo To Zero. The version of Damaged Particulates (2012-2016) included in this …
Monoblock's and 200 Tracks b/w TQ80108
Ben Vida is one of the most interesting experimental electronics musicians in New York right now. His work with sound is quite astonishing and idiosyncratic. Closer in purpose to sound art. His stock as a recording artist has risen over the last c…
Extraction
Extraction is a collaboration between composer Ben Vida, visual artist Meredyth Sparks and curtor and writer Anthony Elms. Continuing Vida's explorations of digital and analog synthesizing systems,ÊExtractionÊgives particular focus to aural phenomena…
Slipping control
Slipping Control derives from the text piece “Tztztztzt Î Í Í…” wrote last year by Ben Vida (and published as a book by Shelter Press). Composed to act as a score, a sound piece and as raw data for electronic control source, “Tztztztzt Î Í Í…” became…
Esstends-esstends-esstends
Five pieces for Computer Controlled Modular Synthesizer and Digital Signal Processing. Composed and recorded from February 2010 – April 2011 in Brooklyn, New York. 'esstends-esstends-esstends' is a collection of spatial compositions in which audio…