Otto Muller is a composer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist interrogating peripheral spaces (the rural, the buried, the drowned) and the ruptures that emerge when we attempt to represent the experience of others. His music engages existing material, unfastening the associations that make it intelligible, and constructing fragile new structures from the empty husks.
His work has been performed internationally at festivals including Tzlil Meudcan (Israel), Zvuk I Vryska (Bulgaria), June in Buffalo Festival (USA), and Klangraum (Germany), by ensembles including Duo Stump-Linshalm, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Third Coast Percussion Quartet, the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Slee Sinfonietta, and his close collaboration with the devised theater company Grafted Cede has resulted in performances in London, Edinburgh, and across the United States.
Muller received his PhD in Composition as a Presidential Fellow at the University at Buffalo where he studied with David Felder and has also studied with Amnon Wolman, Amy Williams, Chaya Czernowin, and Steven Takasugi.
Otto Muller teaches music, aesthetics, and interdisciplinary art at Goddard College in Vermont, where he researches the intersection of experimental music and critical pedagogy and rural noise aesthetics.