ABOUT
BIO
Valentin Steiner, also known as vaZdaZ, is a multimedia & sound artist currently based in the Waldviertel region of Austria and Vienna. He is a member of the art and sub-culture association Subetasch and one of the founders of Subetasch Records.
Influenced by the underground scene, his immediate environment guided him toward a non-commercial sound, encouraging him to investigate unconventional genres and experimental approaches. Overall, his musical journey as a producer, DJ and live performer ranges from playful electronic grooves – particularly Freetekno, Tribal, and Acid, but also Breakbeat and IDM – to warm Ambient, Downtempo, and Field-recording soundscapes – always driven by an interest in discovering the sweet spot between technical limitation and the aesthetic of error.
Beyond audio, he also works on the intersection of digital and physical art through live visuals and interactive installations, often exploring randomness within generative noise structures. A key component is controlling imagery through various live inputs, establishing an evolving dialogue between audience and visualization.
Inbetween he dedicates his time to the simple joys of life: digging records in local stores, good food, dearest friends and being outdoors in nature to find a balance.
CV
Education
2024 – present
USTP St. Pölten – MSc Digital Design
Masterclass Experimental Media
2021 – 2024
USTP St. Pölten – BSc Media Technology
Specialization: Audio/Video & Experimental Media
Praktika
2024 – Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten
Stage Assistant, Stage Construction
2021 – Wald4tler Hoftheater, Pürbach/Schrems
Stage Construction, Waiter
Volunteer Work
2023 – present
Subetasch Records
2019 – present
Subetasch – Verein zur Förderung antikommerzieller Kunst und Subkultur
RELEASES
2025
vaZdaZ – Primal Ambience (Single)
SUBETA006: TakaTuka & vaZdaZ (12″ Vinyl EP)
Alina & vaZdaZ – 104-J (Live Recording)
vaZdaZ – Layers of Perception: A Sonic Journey Through Athens (Single)
SUBETA005: Various Artists (feat. Track)
2024
m0h & Vali G & vaZdaZ – Live Set at Progress
(Live Recording)
SUBETA004: Various Artists (12″ Vinyl EP, feat. Track)
vaZdaZ – LDF (Album)
TakaTuka & vaZdaZ – Inside The Radiator (Live EP)
2023
vaZdaZ – Early Projects (Album)
SUBETA002: Various Artists (feat. Track)
SUBETA001: Various Artists (12″ Vinyl EP, feat. Track)
m0h & vaZdaZ – Live Set at Wild im West (Live Recording)
vaZdaZ & Hannah Propaganda – Every Day My Style (Single)
m0h & vaZdaZ – Together (Live Recording)
m0h & vaZdaZ – For The Funk (Live Recording)
vaZdaZ & m0h & Danalog – Hardware meets PVC (Live Recording)
DEFRAG006: vaZdaZ – Evoking Sensory Disturbances (EP)
2022
DEFRAG005: VA Compilation Vol. II (feat. Track)
DEFRAG003: Douchean – It Was Obviously Colonel Mustard With The Candlestick In The Library (feat. Track)
vaZdaZ – Franky (EP)
vaZdaZ – Choppy (EP)
vaZdaZ & TakaTuka – Contumelia (Single)
2021
vaZdaZ – BiBaBu (Single)
2020
vaZdaZ & TakaTuka – qöbdöp (Single)
TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
Audio
// Ableton Live
// DIY-Instruments/Devices
// Drummachines & Synthesizers
// Field Recording
// Paul(X)Stretch
// Reaper
// (Un)conventional Instruments
// Vinyl & Tape
Video
// Projection & Mapping
// Resolume Arena
// TouchDesigner
// Tube TV’s
// vvvv
Graphic
// Affinity
// Glitch Lab
// Lunacy
// Mirror Lab
// Screen Printing
3D
// Blender
// Scanniverse
// 3D Printing
FURTHER LINKS
// Youtube
// Bandcamp
// Soundcloud
// Freesound
// Linktree
// subetasch.org
COLLABORATIONS
Website Development
Gobl Design & Development e.U.
Kulturverein Anpressdruck
anpressdruck.instagram.com
Label DE/FRAGMENT
defragment.bandcamp.com
Stefan Wetzka
stefanwetzka.com
TakaTuka
taka-tuka.bandcamp.com
Vinyleria
vinyleria.at
PAST HAPPENINGS
2026
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Subetasch Residents, Subetasch Sommerfest @Bobbin, Gmünd, Austria
VMS-25A (Sound Installation), GöttwAIg – Wunderkammer (21) @Stift Göttweig, Furth, Austria
Hardware Live Set: vaZdaZ, Pizzbeats, Lower Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Pizzbeats, Lower Austria
DJ-Set: Alex b2b Vali @Wild im West, Vienna, Austria
AMS (Live Performance), Lucid Dreams: Happy Palace @Bühne im Hof, St.Pölten, Austria
Floating Palace (Exhibit), Lucid Dreams: Happy Palace @Bühne im Hof, St.Pölten, Austria
VMS-25A (Exhibit), Lucid Dreams: Happy Palace @Bühne im Hof, St.Pölten, Austria
Ambient Soundscape (unreleased), Lange Nacht der Forschung @Rathausplatz, St. Pölten, Austria
DJ-Set: Küwe b2b vaZdaZ, Tanzabend @Celeste, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Beats #4 @Lichtspiele, Allentsteig, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Soliparty 4lthangrund, LSDG Floor @Alte WU, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Küwe, Tanzabend #6 @Celeste, Vienna, Austria
INNER STATE, Projektevernissage @USTP, St. Pölten, Austria
2025
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Küwe, Subetasch Christmas Gathering @Bobbin, Gmünd, Austria
INNER STATE, DodekaOTTO Workshop @USTP, St. Pölten, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, X-Mashup @Usus am Wasser, Vienna, Austria
Primal Ambience, Lucid Dreams: Echoes @Haus der Digitalisierung, Tulln, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Gloria Gloriette @Inner Circle, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Alex Ernst, Nahtlose Übergänge @Nähsalon Nahtlos, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ @Das Werk, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b TBSNMN, Release Party SUBETA006 @Rhiz, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Progress #17 @Wald4tler Hoftheater, Pürbach/Schrems, Austria
NOISE CONTROL, Progress#17 @Wald4tler Hoftheater, Pürbach/Schrems, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Alex Ernst @Wild im West (1030), Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Subetasch Sommerfest @Bobbin, Gmünd, Austria
104-J (Live Performance), Alina & vaZdaZ, Lucid Dreams: Stoneage @Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten, Austria
Primal Ambience (Sound Installation), Lucid Dreams: Stoneage @Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten, Austria
3D Shatzkiste (Exhibit), Lucid Dreams: Stoneage @Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten, Austria
Schicht für Schicht (Exhibit), Lucid Dreams: Stoneage @Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Küwe, Volta @Pratersauna, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Küwe, Tanzabend #4 @Rhiz, Vienna
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Tanzabend #2 @Rhiz, Vienna, Austria
2024
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ @Usus am Wasser, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Tanzabend #1 @Rhiz, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Küwe, Photo Exhibition by Lukas Gross @Gürtelbogen 28, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Progress #16 @Böllerbauer, Haag, Austria
Hardware Live Set: MOVAVA (m0h & ValiG & vaZdaZ), Progress #16 @Böllerbauer, Haag, Austria
Channel 004 (Installation), Progress #16 @Böllerbauer, Haag, Austria
Hardware Live Set: MOVAVA (m0h & ValiG & vaZdaZ), Stereowattski #2 @Skalákův mlýn, Meziříčko, Czech Republic
Anomalia (Microscope Edit), House of Arts @PostCity, Linz, Austria
3133 (Short Film), House of Arts @PostCity, Linz, Austria
F[AI]TH (Short Film), House of Arts @PostCity, Linz, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Küwe, Lucid Dreams: Digital Funghi @Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Release Party SUBETA004 @Flucc Deck, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Ostern in der Mühle @Kultur in der Mühle, St. Veit an der Glan, Austria
Live Visuals: vaZdaZ & TBSNMN, Ostern in der Mühle @Kultur in der Mühle, St. Veit an der Glan, Austria
2023
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Vienn-a-Tek @Fluc Wanne, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Gendefekt b2b Gloria Gloriette, Punsch am Wasser @Usus am Wasser, Vienna, Austria
Science Friction (Live Performance), Lucid Dreams Festival @Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten, Austria
Echoes In Motion (Interactive Installation), Lucid Dreams Festival @Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten, Austria
Channel 004 (Interactive Installation), Lucid Dreams Festival @Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten, Austria
Anomalia (Microscope Edit), Lucid Dreams Festival @Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Jdis, Release Party SUBETA002 @Rhiz, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Küwe b2b junglesteve @Operschall Club, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ @Wild im West (1150), Vienna, Austria
Vinyl DJ Workshop @Wild im West (1150), Vienna, Austria
Hardware Live Set: MOVAVA (m0h & ValiG & vaZdaZ), Sakra & Watra B-Day @Omlenička, Czech Republic
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Progress #15 @Wald4tler Hoftheater, Pürbach/Schrems, Austria
Channel 004 (Interactive Installation), Progress #15 @Wald4tler Hoftheater, Pürbach/Schrems, Austria
Ambient Live Performance, Progress #15 @Wald4tler Hoftheater, Pürbach/Schrems, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Kabelbinder @Wild im West (1150), Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Electronic DJ Line @Wild im West (1150), Vienna, Austria
Hardware Live Set: m0h & vaZdaZ @Wild im West (1150), Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Tribal Ritual @Skalákův mlýn, Meziříčko, Czech Republic
Valve (Experimental Live Performance), TakaTuka & vaZdaZ, eXmedia23 @Fine Art Gallery, Traismauer, Austria
3Dan (Mapping Installation), eXmedia23 @Fine Art Gallery, Traismauer, Austria
3133 (Short Film), eXmedia23 @Fine Art Gallery, Traismauer, Austria
F[AI]TH (Short Film), eXmedia23 @Fine Art Gallery, Traismauer, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Devil’s Dance @House of Bandits, 1150, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Rave On XXL @Club Exil, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, SIN @Fluc Wanne, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Gloria Gloriette, Lab 23 @Flucc Deck, Vienna, Austria
2022
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, DE/FRAGMENT VA Vol. II Release Party @Channel Zero, Ljubljana, Slovenia
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Progress #14 @Wald4tler Hoftheater, Pürbach/Schrems, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Lab 23 @Flucc Deck, Vienna, Austria
V^2 (Exhibition) by Valentin Steiner & Victoria Hofstetter, Subetasch @Bobbin, Gmünd, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Tree Of Life Festival @Seedcamp, Kautzen, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Gloria Gloriette @Futuregarden, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ @Radio Student FM 89.3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ b2b Gloria Gloriette, Das Letzte Spektakel @F23, Vienna, Austria
DJ-Set: vaZdaZ, Progress #13 @Wald4tler Hoftheater, Pürbach/Schrems, Austria
2020
Hardware Live Set: vaZdaZ & TakaTuka, Progress #12 @Wald4tler Hoftheater, Pürbach/Schrems, Austria