Norman I. Müller (NM) is a sound artist and performer of improvised electronic music from the Lake Constance area. As a producer and sound designer of award-winning radio art, he runs a compact foley studio and workshop for experimental music named Soundindex in Meersburg. Here, he transforms texts by Berlin-based author Dominik Irtenkauf into audio drama, which aired under the moniker SmaelyP at festivals in Santiago de Chile, The Hague, Glasgow and Cologne. Following an MA in Music Design from Furtwangen University (2018 - 2021) he worked four years as academic staff in musicological research and degree programme development (Master of Music Composition) at Trossingen University of Music's State Centre for Music-Design-Performance (2022 - 2025). 

Since 2010, NM has appeared live across the EU, UK and USA with the solo project Ypsmael and collaborations involving electroacoustic improvisation with amplified objects, live electronics, tape manipulation, various media and conventional instruments in the context of festivals, concert series and underground label releases. Recent work spans improvised sound art, concrète and composed musics noted for "exploring the grains and textures of his materials [...] to create a very distinctive language of his own" (Sound Projector Music Magazine & Radio Show, UK), using "the studio as an instrument, cooking up surrealistic pieces of music [with] a solid musical thread" (Vital Weekly, Netherlands) and "evocative soundscapes that are as unsettling as they are moving" (Loop Music Magazine, Chile). 

All sounds made by NM, all rights reserved.

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Work

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Ypsmael

NM Soundindex

CV (on request)