Stefan Németh (born 1973, Baden, Austria) is an electronic musician and biologist. With Martin Brandlmayr and John Norman he founded the band Radian, which performed on various international festivals and released a series of albums for Thrill Jockey records, Rhiz and Mego. In 2003 he and Michaela Schwentner launched the Mosz record label for electronic and "non-conform" music, focusing on productions aside established genres. In parallel to his activities within live projects and the record label (which Schwentner runs on her own since 2008) Németh creates soundtracks for short films and experimental videos. The list of film directors he worked with includes: Dariusz Kowalski, Lotte Schreiber, Anu Pennanen, Lynne Marsh, Maia Gusberti, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Thomas Fuerhapter and Tinhoko.
On stage he has collaborated with: Steven Hess and Bernhard Breuer (as Innode); Martin Brandlmayr and John Norman (as Radian); Florian Kmet (as Lokai); Martin Siewert, Oskar Aichinger, Franz Hautzinger, Werner Dafeldecker.
Since 2012 he also runs the platform Sonotope, which publishes audio works by or related to Németh.
Selected discography
- németh - koi (12"/DL) Sonotope, 2015
- innode - gridshifter (LP/DL) Editions Mego, 2013
- lokai - transition (CD/LP) Thrill Jockey, 2009
- radian - chimeric (CD/LP) Thrill Jockey, 2009
- németh - film (CD) Thrill Jockey, 2008
- lokai - 7 million (CD) Mosz, 2005
- radian - juxtaposition (CD/LP) Thrill Jockey, 2004
- radian - rec.extern (CD/LP) Thrill Jockey, 2002
- radian - tg11 (CD) Mego/Rhiz, 2000
- radian - radian (CD) Rhiz, 1998