Norman I. Müller (NM) is a Black Forest-born sound maker focused primarily on live work akin to  electroacoustic improvisation (2010 - 2020) via autodidact use of amplified objects, live electronics, tape manipulation, radio waves, various media and broken instruments. Further work has since included composition for radio plays and sound collage summoning "moods and atmospheres of doubt / exploring the grains and textures of his materials [...] to create a very distinctive language of his own" (The Sound Projector, UK). With the project Ypsmael he has appeared live across the EU, UK and USA involving solo sonic exploration, collaboration, festivals, concert series and multi-format releases. Recordings have been noted for "evocative soundscapes that are as unsettling as they are moving" (Loop Music, Chile), using "the studio as an instrument, cooking up surrealistic pieces of music [with] a solid musical thread" (Vital Weekly, Netherlands). 

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, texts by Berlin-based author Dominik Irtenkauf are transformed into audio drama shown 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). 

Biography (long version)

Work

Projects

Ypsmael

NM Soundindex

CV (on request) 

All sounds made by NM, all rights reserved.