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

Life and career

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. Superterz Pit In Kyoto 2017

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Filmography (selected work)

Feature films

* 2002 ''Joshua'' by Andreas Müller * 2003 ''At'' ''Parish'' by Yaël Parish * 2006 ''First Love, Last Rites'' by Susanne Kaelin * 2007 ''The Illettrist'' by Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand * 2008 ''Zara'' by Ayten Mutlu Saray * 2008 ''Der Freund'', in collaboration with Sophie Hunger, by Micha Lewinsky * 2008 '' Tandoori Love'' by Oliver Paulus * 2008 ''Un día y nada'' by Lorenz Merz * 2008 ''Wo ist Max?'' by Juri Steinhart * 2009 ''Die Standesbeamtin'', in collaboration with Markus Schönholzer, by Micha Lewinsky * 2010 ''Bon Appétit'' by David Pinillos * 2010 ''Sommervögel'' by Paul Riniker * 2012 ''Poupée'' by

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* 2012 ''Dreamgirl'' by Oliver Schwarz * 2013 ''Cherry Pie'' by Lorenz Merz * 2013 ''Sitting Next To Zoe'' by Ivana Lalovic * 2013 ''Vielen Dank für Nichts'', in collaboration with Rodrigo González, by Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand * 2014 ''Controlling And Punishment'' by Ayten Mutlu Saray, Ridha Tlili * 2014 ''Now or Never'' by Fredi Murer * 2015 ''Köpek'' by Esen Isik * 2015 ''

Usfahrt Oerlike ''Usfahrt Oerlike'' (german: Ausfahrt Oerlikon) is a 2015 Swiss German-language film. It was filmed and produced at locations in Zürich in Switzerland, and is the second last film starring Mathias Gnädinger, and Jörg Schneider's last movie film ...

'' by Paul Riniker * 2017 ''La Fuga'' by Sandra Vannucchi (replaced Theo Teardo) * 2017 ''Lasst die Alten sterben'' by Juri Steinhart (new composer) * 2018 ''Level Up Your Life'', in collaboration with Jochen Doc Wenz, by Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand * 2019 ''Al-Shafaq – When Heaven Divides'' by Esen Isik * 2020 ''Eating the Silence'' by Joël Louis Jent, Ali Al-Fatlawi * 2020 ''Of Fish and Men'' by Stefanie Klemm * 2021 ''The Sphere'' by Manuel Šumberac * 2022 ''Semret'' by Caterina Mona

Documentary films

* 2009 ''Dachkantine'' by Nicole Biermaier, Ravi Vaid * 2010 ''Guru – Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard'' by Sabine Gisiger, Beat Häner * 2010 ''Goodnight Nobody'' by Jacqueline Zünd * 2010 ''Hüllen'' by Maria Müller * 2011 ''Das Geheimnis unseres Waldes'' by Heikko Böhm * 2011 ''Marc Ristori d'une seconde à l'autre'' by Benjamin Tobler * 2011 ''The Substance – Albert Hoffmans LSD'' by Martin Witz * 2012 ''Bernard Bovet, le vieil homme à la caméra'' by Nasser Bakhti * 2012 ''

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'' by Barbara Miller * 2013 ''My Name Is Salt'' by Farida Pacha * 2013 ''The Green Serpent'' by Benny Jaberg * 2014 ''

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* 2014 ''ThuleTuvalu'' by Matthias von Gunten * 2015 ''

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* 2016 ''Staatenlos'', in collaboration with André Bellmont, by Erich Schmid * 2017 ''The Kongo Tribunal'' by

* 2017 ''Double Sentence'' by

* 2018 ''

Chris the Swiss ''Chris the Swiss'' is a 2018 Swiss animated documentary film directed by Anja Kofmel. It was screened in the International Critics' Week section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Susanne-Marie Wrage as German Narrator / Voice Anja * ...

'' by Anja Kofmel * 2019 ''The Forum'' by

* 2019 ''Golden Age'' by Beat Oswald, Samuel Weniger * 2019 ''Gateways to New York – Othmar H. Ammann and His Bridges'' by Martin Witz * 2020 ''The Wall of Shadows'' by Eliza Kubarska * 2020 ''Not Me – A Journey with Not Vital'' by Pascal Hofmann * 2020 ''Unter einem Dach'' by Maria Müller * 2021 ''Ostrov – Lost Island'' by Svetlana Rodina, Laurent Stoop * 2021 ''Caveman – The Hidden Giant'' by Tommaso Landucci * 2022 ''Dear Memories'' by Nahuel Lopez * 2022 ''Do you remember me'' by Desirée Pomper, Helena Müller

Television

* 2004 ''Das Paar im Kahn'' by Marie-Louise Bless * 2004 ''Voyage contre la faim'' by Matthias von Gunten * 2006 ''Flanke ins All'' by Marie-Louise Bless * 2011 ''Vater, unser Wille geschehe'' by Robert Ralston Jr. * 2015 ''Undine Gruenter - Le projet d'aimer'' by Anita Hugi * ''2015 Au coeur des Robots'' by Bruno Victor-Pujubet * 2017 ''My unknown Russia'' by Roger Brunner, Lisa Röösli, Dave Leins * 2018 ''My unknown America'' by Roger Brunner, Lisa Röösli, Dave Leins, Beat Häner * 2019 ''Dynastie Knie – 100 Years Nationalcircus'' by Greg Zglinski * 2020 ''Ursus & Nadeschkin – Aufhören wäre einfach'' by Stefan Jäger * 2020 ''My other China'' by Roger Brunner, Lisa Röösli, Dave Leins, Beat Häner * 2021 ''Stille über Fukushima'' by

* 2021 ''Il demolitore di camper'' by Robert Ralston Jr. * 2021 ''The Pianist who came in from the cold – Sergey Tanin'' by Helen Stehli Pfister * 2022 ''Tatort – Schattenkinder'' by Christine Repond * 2022 ''Tatort – Risiken mit Nebenwirkungen'' by Christine Repond

Awards

* 2003 Winner Prix de la Création musicale
European First Film Festival
Angers in ''Joshua'' * 2009 Winne
Swiss Filmprize Quartz Best Filmscore
in
Zara
' * 2009 Winner Best Filmmusic, Filmfestival La Cabina, Valencia, in
Wo ist Max?
' * 2009 Winner Best Filmmusi
Prix Fondation Suisa
at the Internationalen Filmfestival Locarno in
Tandoori Love
' * 2011 Nomination Best Filmscore at th
12th International Filmfestival Aubagne
in ''Goodnight Nobody'' * 2011 Winne
Swiss Filmprize Quartz Best Filmscore
in ''Goodnight Nobody'' * 2012 Winne

Jazz/Rock/Pop, shared with Ravi Vaid * 2016 Nominatio

in (Doublenomination with ''

'') * 2016 Winne
Swiss Filmprize Quartz Best Filmscore
in ''

'' * 2018 Nominatio
Swiss Filmprize Quartz Best Filmscore
in ''The Kongo Tribunal'' * 2018 Nominatio
Cristal Pine Award
Best Original Score in a Documentary in ''

'' * 2018 Nomination European Animation Award Best Soundtrack in a Feature Film in ''

'' * 2018 Nominatio
German Documentary Filmmusik Award
'Best original Score' in ''

'' * 2019 Winne
Swiss Filmprize Quartz Best Filmscore
in ''

'' * 2019 Nominatio
Swiss Filmprize Quartz Best Filmscore
in '

References

External links

* * * Interview with Marcel Vaid in
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' 2021
Review
Neue Zürcher Zeitung new album ''Superterz'' Inland Empire, 3CD Box * Marcel Vaid a
Swissfilms
- Nationale Filmdatenbank * Marcel Vaid a

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