Ben Vida
Education:
MFA, Milton Avery Gradual School of the Arts at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Bachelor in Music, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
2014 Artist in Residence, EMPAC, (Troy, NY)
2013 Artist in Residence, Issue Project Room, (Brooklyn, NY)
Artist in Residence, Clocktower (Manhattan, NY)
2011 Composer in Residence, EMS Studio (Stockholm, Sweden)
Composer in Residence, Diapason Space (Brooklyn, NY)
2008 AIR, Experimental Television Center (Owega, NY)
Awards and Commissions:
2014 Unsound NYC, New Works Commission, “Damaged Particulates”
2013 Triple Canopy Commission for “Bloopers: #0”
2012 ACM “Composer, Alive” New Works Commission, Chicago, IL
2011 Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, "Composing with Process"
New Works Commission, ISSUE Project Room, NY
Travel Grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2006 Illinois Art Council Grant for Music Composition
2013 “Bloopers: #0” Performa Biannual,
(Manhattan, NY)
“Metal
Fatigue Music” w/Jeff DeGolier, NADA Fair Miami special project
2013 “Slipping Control” Solo
Exhibition Audio Visual Arts (Manhattan, NY)
“Sound
Spill” Zabludowicz Collection(Manhattan, NY)
2012 “hy.morf.eld” Artist’s
Institute (Manhattan, NY)
“Metal Fatigue Music (1992 Toyota Previa)”w/Jeff DeGolier
Socrates
Sculpture Park (Queens, NY)
“Zizzlers”
w/Hisham Bharoocha “Musique Plasique” Agnes B (Manhattan, NY)
“Biographies of Our Neighbors” AVA Space at The Dependent (Manhattan,
NY)
2011 “Zizzlers” w/Hisham
Bharoocha “Musique Plasique” at
La
Galeria du Jou Agnes B. (Paris, France)
Artist
Talks, Panels and Visiting Artist:
2014 Artist Talk, Liebig12, (Berlin,
Germany)
Visiting Artist, The School of Visual Arts, (NYC)
Visiting Artist, Brooklyn Collage, (NYC)
2013 Visiting Artist, Colombia
College, (Chicago, IL)
Visiting Artist, University of Illinois, (Chicago, IL)
Panel,
Kitchen L.A.B. at The Kitchen (Manhattan, NY)
2012 Artist Talk, Transmission Gallery
(Glasgow, Scotland)
Artist
Talk, Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Panel,
with Luke Fowler, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)
2011 Visiting
Artist, Bard Collage (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
2014
Ben
Vida w/ IIII, Royal Festival Hall (London, England)
LiveArtsWeek
(Bologna, Italy)
Unsound
NYC (Manhattan, NY)
2013
Ben
Vida/Marina Rosenfeld Duo, ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn, NY)
PAN Festival New York (NYC)
The
Kitchen (NYC)
Electrónica
en Abril (Madrid, Spain)
Akousma
Festival (Montreal, Canada)
Lampo
and the Graham Foundation (Chicago, IL)
2012
Unsound Festival (Krakow, Poland)
Berghain (Berlin, Germany)
Berghain (Berlin, Germany)
Ben Vida and Ryan Sawyer (Philip Glass, Music with
Friends w/Laurie Anderson)
“Sounds
Corridors” at Roulette (Brooklyn, NY)
Ben
Vida w/ IIII, Sydney Opera House
(Sydney, Australia)
Ben
Vida w/ Lawrence English, Now Now Fest (Sydney, Australia)
Ben
Vida w/ Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle), New Museum (Manhattan, NY)
2011
New
Works Commission Performance, IPR (Brooklyn, NY)
NADA
Art Fair (Hudson, NY)
Café
Oto (London, England)
Festival
of Endless Gratitude (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Batofar (Paris, France)
2010
Moonji
Cultural Center (Seoul, South Korea)
Ben
Vida w/ Hisham Bharoocha, MoMA (New York, NY)
Ben
Vida w/Yamatsuka Eye & Hisham Bharoocha, ICA (London, England)
Shofukuji
Temple (Niigata, Japan)
Ben
Vida /w Greg Davis, Hopscotch Festival (Raleigh, NC)
2009
The
For Carnation, All Tomorrows Parties (Minehead, England)
Ben
Vida w/ Koen Holtkompf, X-Initiative (Manhattan, NY)
Floating
Points Festival, Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY)
A
Crimson Grail by Rhys Chatham, Lincoln Center (Manhattan, NY)
2008
Issue
Project Room (Brooklyn, NY)
The
Stone (New York, NY)
2006
Galeria
Z,E Dos Bois (Lisbon, Portugal)
Town
and Country, Shinagawa Gloria Chapel (Tokyo, Japan)
Festival
Soy, Planètarium à Nantes (Nantes, France)
2000-2005
Locanda Atlantide
(Rome, Italy)
Ben
Vida w/ Tony Conrad, 2000 Tongues Festival (Chicago, IL)
Town
and Country, Shinagawa Gloria Chapel (Tokyo, Japan)
Town
and Country, The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL)
Town
and Country, Podewil (Berlin, Germany)
Ben
Vida w/ Werner Dafeldecker, MCA (Chicago, IL)
Selected
Discography:
2014 Ben Vida
Slipping
Control (Shelter Press)
2013 Ben Vida Extractions
(Future Audio Graphics)
2012 Ben Vida Monoblocks
and 200 Tracks b/w TQ80108 (ALKU)
Ben
Vida esstends-esstends-esstends
(PAN)
2011 Ben Vida Trading
Prescriptions (LDE)
Ben
Vida/
Keith
Fullerton Whitman Split
LP (Amish Records)
Ben
Vida/ Andy Ortmann Split
LP (Nihilist)
Singer Mind
Reading (Drag City)
2010 Ben Vida Music
For a Soft Epic (Root Strata)
Ben
Vida Patch
Pieces (Autumn Records)
Bird
Show Band S/T
(Amish Records)
2008 Bird Show Untitled
(Kranky)
Singer Unhistories
(Drag City)
2006 Bird Show “Lightning
Ghost" (Kranky)
Town
& Country Up
Above (Thrill Jockey)
Pillow
Plays
Brotzmann (Bottrop)
2005 Bird Show Green
Inferno (Kranky)
2003 Town & Country 5
(Thrill Jockey)
2002 Town & Country C’Mon
(Thrill Jockey)
2001 Pillow Three
Henries (Hapna)
2000 Town and Country It
All Has To Do With It. (Thrill Jockey)
Ben
Vida Mpls.
(Boxmedia)
Pillow
Field
on Water (HereForeverAlways)
1999 Town and Country Decoration
Day (Thrill Jockey)
1998 Town and Country S/T
(Boxmedia)
Articles
and Publications
2014 Catalogue
for LiveArtsWeek
2013 Tztztztz
III…. Book and Audio Work, (Shelter Press)
Article:
Florian Hecker “Chimerizations” BOMB Magazine, Spring 2013
Article:
Julia Holter “Julia Holter by Ben Vida” BOMB Magazine, Spring 2013
2012 Article:
“Playing Phenomena as a Compositional Material”,
Radio
Web Macba (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona)
