Günter Müller
Kangaroo Kitchen
n 2018 Mikroton Mikroten Festival offered a special occasion to record five important musicians from the Swiss experimental music scene.
Joke Lanz was born in Basel in 1965 and now lives in Berlin. He is a pioneer of the electronic independent scene and a crossover artist whose work spans improvised and experimental music, noise and turntablism, performance art and musique concrète. In addition to theatre and film music, radio works, installations and objects, there are two constants in his work…
Limmat
Limmat is the second CD from Günter Müller, Jason Kahn and Christian Wolfarth, following their first album Drumming released in 2005 on Creative Sources. Recorded during one afternoon in Kahn’s Zürich studio, “Limmat” features three unedited improvisations melding microsounds, percussive mastery and swaths of noise and static into a mesmerizing whole.
Originally from Los Angeles, Jason Kahn has lived in Europe since 1990. He has performed or recorded with musicians such as Günter Müller, Norbert…
Cym_Bowl
Cym_bowl is Günter Müller’s fourth solo CD. On cym_bowl he follows even more consequently the idea he already realized on his last album reframed; focused on the sound of one cymbal and one singing bowl; he feeded his iPods with dozens of variations of processed sounds. Afterwards he conceived with recorded material from sessions he improvised with processed cymbal and bowl sounds only the 4 pieces for his new album. cym_bowl could easily go as a symbol of getting lost in time.
Teplo_Dom
Jason Kahn, Günter Müller and Norbert Möslang, all from Switzerland, comprise MKM trio, spontaneously founded in 2006 in Tokyo during their Japanese tour. They immediately achieved very fine results and collaborate since then. Their sound hovers between the at times harsh rhythmic noise of Norbert Möslang’s cracked everyday electronics and the rich sonorities of Günter Müller’s percussion-based samples and electronics. Jason Kahn’s work on analog synthesizer bridges these two worlds, adding high…
Ground
Norbert Möslang had been playing in Voice Crack duo with Andy Guhl in 1972-2002, they’ve been working with “cracked everyday-electronics”, modifying and recontextualising the use of home electronics. After the split he continued working solo and in different musical combinations using “cracked everyday-electronics”, among them a duo with eRikm with whom he played in duo from time to time since 2002. He released numerous solo albums as well as collaborations with Günter Müller, Jason Kahn, Ralf W…
Live at White Cube
In collaboration between Christian Marclay and the London Sinfonietta, some of the world’s most renowned contemporary musicians have been invited to stage performances, including new compositions and live improvisation sessions inside the White Cube. Each performance over the course of the exhibition will be recorded, pressed and screen-printed live inside the gallery. This performance is from Gunter Muller.Side A: Gunter Muller, 'Refilled'.
vlan_vloila
A beautifull record from two Swiss masters of electronic music. Like an imaginary landscape full of pulses, resonances, ghostly voices and nice noises! Günter Müller, ipods, electronics. Norbert Möslang, cracked everyday electronics. Recorded April 10, 2016, cave12, Geneva.
Pavillon du lac Geneva 2015
Günter Müller, iPod, percussion, electronics. Norbert Möslang, cracked everyday electronics. eRikm, CD-J & electronics.Performed in a double space.Final mixing and mastering by Norbert Möslang.
Buenos aires tapes
Günter Müller (ipod, electronics) with Disc 1: Alan Courtis (unstringed guitar & tapes), Pablo Reche (sampler, md's, electronics). Disc 2: Sergio Merce (4-track portastudio without tape, WX7), Gabriel Paiuk (piano, tapes). Disc 1 was recorded live February 9th and disc 2 February 10th, 2006 at Fundación Cultural Surdespierto, Buenos Aires by Gabriel Paiuk. Mixed and mastered by Günter Müller at Remisch Lupsingen. Cover art by Günter Müller.
Taste Tribes
2025 stock ** "Alfred 23 Harth, reeds, kaosspad. Hans Joachim Irmler, organ. Günter Müller, iPods, electronics. The last time Harth and Müller met was in 1987 as part of a quintet at the Festival Willisau, including Andres Bosshard, Phil Minton and Sonny Sharrock. Exactly 20 years later, Alfred Harth, now based in Seoul, South Korea, asked Günter Müller to do some recordings on a visit to Switzerland while traveling in Germany and Italy. Several days before, Harth recorded with Hans Joachim Irml…
AMPLIFY 2002 | Balance
2003 release ** Featuring: Thomas Lehn, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Günter Müller, Christof Kurzmann, Taku Sugimoto, Keith Rowe, Marcus Schmickler, Otomo Yoshihide, Burkhard Stangl, Sachiko M, Cosmos. "A document of the 2002 Amplify festival in Tokyo curated by Erstwhile's Jon Abbey. Disc 1 and 7 are smaller club shows that took place outside the Festival proper, disc 2 is a studio session that took place around the time of the festival and discs 3-6 feature eight of the twelve sets that…
buda_rom
2002 release ** "This album features the Swiss three-quarters of the Swiss-French electro-acoustic improv group poire_z. It consists of live recordings from Budapest and Rome in late 2000. There are three "buda" tracks, each one lasting over ten minutes, and four "roma" tracks of three minutes and under -- the latter have also been remixed by Günter Müller and Norbert Möslang to serve as bridges between the main pieces. Müller has been performing with Voice Crack (Möslang and Andy Guhl) since 19…
Points and Slashes
Over the past decade, Swiss-based Günter Müller has collaborated with many of the most prominent Tokyo-based musicians, recording CDs with Otomo Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto, Sachiko M, Masahiko Okura, and Toshimaru Nakamura. Points and Slashes is the latest of these, a duo collaboration with guitar wizard Tetuzi Akiyama.It's impossible to pin down Akiyama, a musician of diverse interests and activities, with a brief description. He has been playing electric guitar since he was 13, and formed his fi…
Filament 2
Recorded at GOK Sound, Tokyo, July 1998. Mixed at GOK Sound, Tokyo, March 1999. Mastered at Transonic Studio, Tokyo, March 1999.
Wireless_Within
2026 stock Together with the album Oystered of Ambarchi - Müller - Voice Crack on Audiosphere, wireless_within are the very last recordings of the legendary Voice Crack. Together with Müller and Melbourne-based Philip Samartzis they create stunning atmospheric soundscapes -- recorded one day after they visited together a rain forest in South Australia.
Oystered
Released in DVD case size super jewel box.
Structures with monochromes on reports of the Golden Number 1,618033989.
Recorded July 23, 2002 at Big Jesus Burger, Sydney.Mixed and mastered October/November 2002.
More Gloom - More Light
2003 ** "This collaboration hardly needs explanation - Mueller's gorgeous, eerie sound fields are a perfect playground for nmperign's irreverent cooperation. Two extended trio tracks creep between beauty and menace and lend evidence to the rumor that nmperign can be real bullies. Mueller accepts this behavior with aplomb and puts forth a solo track that is as eyebrow-raising as it is understated. nmperign, refusing to be upstaged, finishes the CD with an ante-upping duo track."
Conduction #22: Documenta: gloves & mitts
1995 release ** Documenta: Gloves & MittsDocumenta 9, Kassel, Germany; June 14, 1992Christian Marclay, turntables; Lê Quan Ninh, percussion; J. A. Deane, trombone, live sampling; Martin Schütz, cellos; Günter Müller, drums, electronics.Conducting is no longer a mere method for an interpretation, but an actual part of the process of composition. Conduction is a means by which a conductor may compose, (re)orchestrate, (re)arrange and sculpt both notated and non-notated music. Using a vocabulary of…
The World Turned Upside Down
A document of a performance last autumn at Parisian Improv spot Instants Chavires, in which Günter Müller is flanked by two very different but distinctive users of the electric guitar. On one side of the stage is Keith Rowe, who's worked for half a lifetime to unsettle the boundaries between music and noise. On the other is the restrained presence of Taku Sugimoto, whose crabbed phrases waft above the shifting timbral networks laid down by the other two. The trio's music is dominated by rasps an…