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Andre VIDA

Berlin-based American composer and saxophonist André Vida (1974) has perfumed widely as a soloist and has collaborated with a diverse group of artists including Anthony Brxton, Cecil Taylor, Lee Ranaldo, Jim O'Rourke, Hilary Jaffery, Kevin Blechdom, Tim Exile, Tarek Atoui, James Tenney, Hildur Gudnadottir and Jamie Lidell. Vida's compositional work focuses on the medium and materiality of scoring and includes explorations of animation, lighting, and costume design as essential elements of a compositional system that reflects the physicality of his performance practice.

Berlin-based American composer and saxophonist André Vida (1974) has perfumed widely as a soloist and has collaborated with a diverse group of artists including Anthony Brxton, Cecil Taylor, Lee Ranaldo, Jim O'Rourke, Hilary Jaffery, Kevin Blechdom, Tim Exile, Tarek Atoui, James Tenney, Hildur Gudnadottir and Jamie Lidell. Vida's compositional work focuses on the medium and materiality of scoring and includes explorations of animation, lighting, and costume design as essential elements of a compositional system that reflects the physicality of his performance practice.

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André Vida is a Berlin-based saxophonist, composer and lyricist. He has developed a series of practical approaches to improvisation using restrictive outfits, animated graphics-based score installations and self-made instruments. His solo saxophone pieces are a synthesis of these areas of improvisational research, combining body, instrument, song-forms, and voice. In this case the pieces are made in the moment and memory, with shifting time matrices. Over the course of a two-minute walk, some fo…
'Brud: Volumes I-III
Brud is a three volume compilation of recordings from 1995 to 2011 by Andre Vida, morphing seamlessly between a sense of total irreverence and the sublime. His spontaneous compositions and notated works are the angled mirrored counterparts of a transient saxophone driven performance language, drawing on elements of 1970s performance art, new music, improvisation cult, folk and pop hybrids, channeling them into asymmetrical tunes of feral beauty. BRUD traces the development of Vida's wayw…
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