Marcel Vaid

Marcel Vaid (born 1967 in Erlangen) is a Swiss-German composer of music for television and film.

Marcel Vaid
NationalitySwiss and German
OccupationFilm composer and musician
Known forAls die Sonne vom Himmel fiel (2015)
Usfahrt Oerlike (2015)
WebsiteOfficial website

Life and career

Born in Erlangen, Germany, Marcel Vaid's father is of Punjabi origin from India. He studied guitar at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Zürich. Besides his work as a composer and music producer for theatre, he composes and produces film music for fiction and documentary films. Vaid is also the head of the electro-acoustic experimental collective Superterz. Among others, he collaborated with Sophie Hunger, Nils Petter Molvær, Fredi Murer, Lauren Newton, Marianne Schroeder and Damo Suzuki.[1]

Vaid produces music mainly for German-language films, but also for international productions, among them Wake Up Running: A Story of Losers. Feature-length films he served as a composer for include the 2015 documentary Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel (The Day the Sun Fel) by the Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig,[2] the 2015 Swiss comedy Usfahrt Oerlike starring Jörg Schneider and Mathias Gnädinger,[3] the 2008 Swiss-Austrian-German comedy Tandoori Love, and the 2004 Swiss television film Das Paar im Kahn.

Filmography (selected work)
Year Title Role Notes
2002 Joshua short film, as composer
2003 Wake Up Running: A Story of Losers (Faces on Mars) as composer
2004 Das Paar im Kahn Television film, as composer
2008 Tandoori Love as composer
2009 Zara as composer
2010 Bon Appétit as composer
2010 Goodnight Nobody as composer
2010 The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD as composer
2011 Forbidden Voices as composer
2015 Usfahrt Oerlike as composer
2015 Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel as composer
2015 Köpek as composer

Awards
  • 2003: Angers European First Film Festival, Best Soundtrack, for Joshua.
  • 2009: Festival del film Locarno, Swiss Film Score Award for Tandoori Love.
  • 2009: Swiss Film Prize, Best Music for Zara.
  • 2011: Swiss Film Prize, Best Music (Beste Filmmusik) for Goodnight Nobody.
  • 2016: Swiss Film Award, nomination Best Film Score (Beste Filmmusik) for Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel.[4]
  • 2016: Swiss Film Award, Best Film Score (Beste Musik) for Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel.[2][5]
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References
  1. "biography marcel vaid". marcelvaid.com. Retrieved 2016-03-20.
  2. "Best Film Score 2016". Swiss Film Award. Archived from the original on 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2016-03-20.
  3. "Usfahrt Oerlike" (in German). 10vor10. 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  4. "Nominations for the 2016 Swiss Film Award". Swiss Film Award. Archived from the original on 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2016-01-29.
  5. "News and screenings". Official website The Day The Sun Fell. Archived from the original on 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2016-03-20.
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