Otto Muller

ISEA2020

Otto Muller is a composer, educator, and sound artist, whose work explores the dynamics of complicity, grief, and loss through installation, participatory performance, hybrid poetics, and chamber music. Muller has collaborated closely with the devised theatre company Theatre Témoin, choreographers Hanna Satterlee and Maura Gahan, and new media artist Sean Clute. His music has been performed internationally by Duo Stump-Linshalm, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Formosa Quartet, the Slee Sinfonietta, and other ensembles at festivals including Tzlil Meudcan (Israel), Zvuk i Vryska (Bulgaria), June in Buffalo (USA), and Klangraum (Germany). Muller received his PhD at the University at Buffalo, and has studied with David Felder, Amnon Wolman, Chaya Czernowin, and Steve Takasugi. He is the co-founder of the BFA program in Socially Engaged Art at Goddard College, where his research includes publications on noise aesthetics, rural sound practices, and critical arts pedagogy.