Marcel Vaid

Marcel Vaid (born 1967) is a Swiss-German musician (guitar) and composer of music for film and theatre.

Born in Erlangen, Germany, Marcel Vaid's father is of Punjabi origin from India.

Besides his work as a composer and music producer, he composes music for fiction and documentary films.

Marcel Vaid is together with his brother Ravi Vaid also the head of the electro-acoustic experimental collective Superterz.

Marcel Vaid's most important goal is to develop an individual language, an individual and discreet soundscape for every film.

In the foreground is the motto "less is more".

To this day he produced music for over 90 feature films.

An outstanding sound-aesthetical concern is the examination of acoustical instruments and their stereoscopic processing in the computer.

For this he collaborates with artists such as Nils Petter Molvær, Toshinori Kondo, Kate Havnevik, Mauro Pawlowski, Rodrigo González, Norbert Möslang, Marianne Schroeder, Lauren Newton and Jojo Mayer.

In film Marcel Vaid has worked a.o. with director Léa Pool, Eliza Kubarska, Anja Kofmel, Fredi Murer, Esen Işık, Marcus Vetter, Milo Rau, Grzegorz Zgliński, Oliver Paulus, Tommaso Landucci or oscar-nominated Timo von Gunten.

Marcel Vaid has been hounoured a number of times.

To this day he received four times the Swiss Film Prize Quartz (Zara 2009, Goodnight Nobody 2011, When the sun fell 2016 and Chris the Swiss 2019), the Prix Fondation Suisa (Tandoori Love 2009), the prize for Best Film Score at the Filmfstivals in Angers (Joshua 2003) and Valencia (Where is Max 2009).

In 2012 he received the Zurich City Award (Werkjahr der Stadt Zürich).

Marcel Vaid gives diverse masterclasses and is working as a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts.

He is a member of the Swiss and European Filmacademy and president of the Swiss Media Composers Association.