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Contents
Reception
Reviews of selected live performances and recordings
2026: The Wire (UK), Fringes Of Sound (UK), Freq (UK)
2025: Offside Santa Fe (USA), The Sound Projector (UK), Bad Alchemy (Germany), Vital Weekly (Netherlands), Organ Zine (UK), Ruix Records (USA). The 'Of Delusions' LP by the duo Eloine + Ypsmael was included on Thurston Moore's best of 2025 list.
2024: The Sound Projector (UK), Adverse Effect (Poland), It's Psychedelic, Baby! (Slovenia), Loop (Chile), Bad Alchemy (Germany), Vital Weekly (Netherlands), etc.
2020 - 2023: Hörspielwiese Köln award jury (Germany), S. Glass / Tedium House (USA), Lost In A Sea Of Sound (USA), Tabs Out (USA), Raised by Cassettes (USA), Disaster Amnesiac (USA), Bad Alchemy (Germany), Vital Weekly (Netherlands), Dereck Higgins (USA), Kathodik (IT), Sands-Zine (IT), etc.
2010 - 2020: The Quietus (UK), Wysing Arts Centre (UK), Transborder (CH), Pressed Art (UK), Slate The Disco (UK), The Flash Boston (USA), The Liminal (UK), etc.
Selected commissions, grants and awards
2023: Musikfonds commissions for audiovisual Ypsmael solo performance and NM Soundindex production for Reservoir 2023 Festival, Linachtalsperre (Germany)
2022 - 2023: STMWK sound art commission as part of an interdisciplinary performance and production, as part of Berlin/Meersburg-based audiovisual / mixed media duo Krausen Ypsmael, Munich (Germany)
2022: Hörspielwiese Köln award (3rd place), as part of Berlin/Meersburg-based radio art duo Dominik Irtenkauf & SmaelyP, Munich (Germany)
2019: Global Forest Kunstverein, Ypsmael solo sound art residency and StiftungErlebnisKunst grant for maker workshop and San Francisco/Meersburg-based duo performance with Bryan Day for Global Forest Kunstverein, St. Georgen (Germany)
2014: Werkstatt für Improvisierte Musik , Ypsmael short-term residency with two solo performances for WIM's Zentral-deZentral concert series, Bern (Switzerland)
Performances / radio and festival appearances (selection)
2026: Colour Out Of Space (Brighton, UK), Resonance FM and Resonance Extra (London, UK), Camp Radio (Aulus-les-Bains, France & London, UK), Xerox Exotique (Offenbach, Germany)
2025: Avant Garde a Clue Festival (Rochester, USA), Radiophrenia (Glasgow, UK), On Site - On Air, Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatoire (The Hague, Netherlands) and Museo del Sonido (Santiago de Chile and Valparaíso, Chile)
2024: A Duck In A Tree (London, UK), Resonance FM (London, UK), WFMU (Jersey City, USA), Encyclopaedia Progtannica (London, UK), etc.
2023: Iklectic (London, UK), Reservoir 2023 Festival (Germany), etc.
2022: Instandsetzung Medienkunst Festival (VS-Schwenningen, Germany), CK13 (Novi Sad, Serbia)
2021: Jefferson Park Exp / Pan Y Rosas Discos (Chicago, USA)
2020: Donauhallen (Donaueschingen, Germany)
2019: next_generation, ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany)
2018: Coaxial Arts Foundation (Los Angeles, USA), High Desert Soundings (Joshua Tree, USA), Canessa Gallery (San Francisco, USA)
2017: GENERATE!° Festival for Electronic Arts (Tübingen, Germany), ВОДА фестивал за съвременни изкуства / WATER Festival for Contemporary Art (Burgas, Bulgaria), DUAL Sessions 2017 - Symposium für Hörkultur (St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, Germany)
2016: Iklectic (London, UK), Domagk Ateliers (Munich, Germany)
2015: Multiversal (Berlin, Germany), Betty’s Turquoise Chain / Nuovo Panificio (Cagliari, Italy)
2014: Bonner Theaternacht (Bonn, Germany), Dortmunder U (Dortmund, Germany), Werkstatt für Improvisierte Musik (Bern, Switzerland), Zuider Festival (Enschede, Netherlands), La Maison Peinte (Toulouse, France)
2013: Goldsmiths University of London (London, UK), Cornell University (Ithaca, USA), SuperCoda (Brooklyn/New York City, USA), Welsh Chapel – Eddie Prevost Workshop (London, UK)
2012: Center for Contemporary Culture and Community (Indianapolis, USA), Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridge, UK),
2011: Stew Gallery – Kleeep-a-kleeep (Norwich, UK), Kettle’s Yard Gallery – Past Forward: New Music From Old Sound (Cambridge, UK)
Full list of performances here.
Collaborations and affiliations (selection)
- Current recording projects include Karen Constance, Diurnal Burdens, Simon Whetham, Bryan Day (Eloine), Stefan Krausen, Joel Penoan Collective, Dominik Irtenkauf and Faust's Hans-Joachim Irmler.
- Label releases are available on CD, LP, Lathe Cut, cassette and digitally and can be ordered directly and via Chocolate Monk, Steep Gloss, scatterArchive, Longs Arm Artefacts and Colliding Lines in the UK; Public Eyesore / Eh?, Un Poco Fría (forthcoming), Tedium House and sPLeeNCoFFiN in the USA; Sonic Rubbish|KindlingEditions (forthcoming) in Australia; Tobira Records in Japan; Insitu Recordings in Indonesia; and eë editions, Spalt-ung, Klanggold, Consouling Sounds, Droning Earth or NM soundindex in Europe.
- In 2012, NM founded a concert series for improvised music under the project MaeLyps in London and Cambridge, UK. At the end of 2016, he was a founding member of the Global Forest 2017 project group in Sankt Georgen, Germany.
- He was co-initiator and artistic director of Dual Session#1, a symposium for auditory culture at the German Phonomuseum, and a founding member of the Global Forest Kunstverein (arts association) and its Klangspiel concert series in 2018. In 2019, he was co-initiator and team member of the Reservoir Festival at the Linachtalsperre (Black Forest, Germany) and a founding member of Reservoir e.V. (arts association, now part of Global Forest e.V.).
- In the field of electroacoustic improvisation and group improvisation, he has curated and taught on-site workshops such as Peripheral Techne (HfM Trossingen / Latent Space, AI and Immersive Media Lab, VS-Schwenningen, Germany, 2024) and Soundindex@DKollektiv (VEWA Espace de Création, Dudelange-Usines, Luxembourg, 2024).
- As a co-curator and co-moderator he organised international online symposia such as <AI in Music: Agency, Performance, Production and Perception and Stakeholder perspectives from practitioners, industry and academia (HfM Trossingen, 2023 and 2025), whilst working as an academic staff member in musicological research and masters degree programme development in composition with pathways in AI music design, electroacoustic composition and instrumental composition at Trossingen University of Music for four years. Previously, he had worked for colleges in Germany, the UK, companies of various sizes, as well as self-employed.
Formative years and first live appearances
- Born to a family of 20th century industrial workers in Sankt Georgen, Black Forest,
NM discovered his interest in sound autodidactically as a child, introduction to improvised jamming, free-form musics and DIY ethos via relocating between rural Black Forest, Bellingham (WA), Freiburg (DE), Stuttgart (DE) and Cambridge (UK) between 2001 and 2008.
- NM started combining conventional and modified instruments, location recordings (MiniDisc) and digital audio (Reason, Audacity) before replacing the computer intermittently by a Fostex cassette four-track gifted to him by a close friend in England in 2009 as a first step towards building an evolving hardware-based setup as an instrument for live-only experimental performance (2010 - 2020).
- First solo appearances under the Ypsmael moniker took place in Cambridge, involving audiovisual performance (sound collage, live sampling and visuals) at a Changing Spaces finissage (29th June 2010) and a shop display window exhibit (art brut/mixed media assemblage) as part of a group exhibition titled Independents (30th September to 14th October 2010). Since 2010 at the "crossroad of ambient, industrial, lo-fi, and musique concrète" (Ypsmael's 'Torsion' 7" as described by critic Frans de Waard, 2024).
- From 2018 to 2021, NM studied music design with Norbert Schnell, completing with an MA from Furtwangen University. His work has since been cutting across boundaries of performing composer/improviser and autodidact/trained researcher/producer at the margins of music and non-music.