Ben Vida is a composer, improviser and artist. His works explore aural phenomena, durations, language and communication.

In the mid-1990s he moved to Chicago and became involved with the city's multifaceted experimental music scene, co-founding the minimalist quartet Town & Country and releasing solo records under the moniker Bird Show. In the Mid-2000’s he relocated to Brooklyn and shifted his focus to electronics and systems based compositions which utilized psycho-acoustics, aural phenomena and advanced synthesis techniques. He also began showing his works for video, text and sound installation in galleries and arts institutions.

Since 2015 he has been composing pieces that combine his interest in experimental writing with his love of singing with people. His six hour performance piece for vocal ensemble and electronics, Reducing the Tempo to Zero, was staged at Lampo in Chicago, the Kitchen, NYC, STUK in Leuven, BE and in Italy at Centro Pecci, Prato. His work, And So Now, was commissioned for the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2018, and his newest piece, Always Already, scored for ensemble, electronics and voices, has been produced in collaboration with the YarnWire ensemble and vocalist, Nina Dante, and has been performed in New York and Chicago.

Besides his solo work he has developed recent duo projects with Marina Rosenfeld, Lucio Capece and Lea Bertucci. Vida has released his music with many wonderful labels including Shelter Press, Kranky, PAN, iDEAL and 901Editions just to name a few. His work has been featured in Artforum, The Quietus, Modern Painters, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Art Review, The Wire, The Creators Project, WIRED Magazine among others.

Vida has been touring and presenting his pieces for over 20 years, performing in venues such as the Guggenheim, NYC, the MCA, Chicago, MadeiraDig Festival, Fuchel, Maderia, Performa Biennial, NYC, EMPAC, Troy, NY, Berghain, Berlin, the Unsound Festival at the Cricoteka Museum, Kraków, the Sydney Opera House, Australia, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Borderline Festival, Athens, the Royal Festival Hall, London, Moonji Cultural Center, Seoul, South Korea, INA/GRM, Paris, Shinagawa Gloria Chapel, Tokyo, Japan and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY.

Since 2017 Vida has taught at Brooklyn College in their Sonic Arts MFA program.