Wolfgang Müller (born 24 October 1957) is an artist, musician and writer, based in
Berlin
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and
Reykjavík
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.
Müller is the founder of the multi-media performance art group
Die Tödliche Doris
Die Tödliche Doris ''(Deadly Doris;'' a pun on ''tödliche Dosis,'' meaning ''lethal dose)'' was a performance art and music group based in West Berlin from 1980 to 1987. It was founded by band members Wolfgang Müller and and later joined by , ...
('The Deadly Doris').
Müller published the book
Geniale Dilletanten in 1982, naming a musical genre encompassing Die Tödliche Doris,
Einstürzende Neubauten
(, 'Collapsing New Buildings') is a German experimental music group, formed in West Berlin in 1980. The band currently comprises founding members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard) and N.U. Unruh (custom-made instruments, percussion, ...
,
Malaria!
Malaria! was a German post-punk experimental electronic music band from West Berlin, formed in 1981 by Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster following the dissolution of Mania D with Karin Luner, Eva Gossling later Die Krupps and Beate Bartel (of L ...
,
Frieder Butzmann and many others.
Müller's interest in Iceland and its culture has been documented in several art projects since 1988. He has participated in arts projects in both Germany and Iceland, addressing the Icelandic culture of elves, natural and supernatural phenomena. In 1998 he transferred the music of his first record with two sign language interpreters into signs and gestures and published it as a DVD, "Gehörlose Musik/Deaf Music" in 2006.
In 2003,
Cologne
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based record label
A-Musik released Müller's album ''Mit Wittgenstein In Krisuvík - Zweiundzwanzig Elfensongs Für Island''. In 2009, Müller published ''Séance Vocibus Avium'', an audioplay with reconstructed sounds of extinct birds for which Müller was awarded the
Karl Sczuka-Preis.
''Séance Vocibus Avium'' was also released on record by
Gothenburg
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based record label
Fang Bomb. The record contained 11 bird calls, performed by artists such as Wolfgang Müller himself,
Justus Köhncke
Justus Köhncke (born 1966 in Gießen) is a German techno producer and pop musician from Cologne.
Köhncke was a member of the house music, house trio Whirlpool Productions, along with Hans Nieswandt and Eric D. Clark. Together, they had a numb ...
,
Namosh
Namosh (born 8 May 1981), also known as Erkan Arslan, Namosh E. Arslan or Namosh Erkan Arslan, is a German singer, musician, performance artist, actor and DJ of Kurdish descent.
Life and work
Namosh has lived in Berlin since 1999 and is known ...
, Max Müller and
Annette Humpe
Annette Humpe (born 28 October 1950) is a German singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her band Ideal was one of the most important and seminal representatives of the Neue Deutsche Welle. In 2004, she returned as a singer with the project Ic ...
. The record came with a 40-page catalog containing Müller's illustrations of the birds.
Discography
* ''BAT - Aus Der Schule Der Tödlichen Doris'', LP,
Die Tödliche Doris Schallplatten, 1989
* ''Mit Wittgenstein In Krisuvík - Zweiundzwanzig Elfensongs Für Island'', CD/LP,
A-Musik, 2003
* Wolfgang Müller &
Namosh
Namosh (born 8 May 1981), also known as Erkan Arslan, Namosh E. Arslan or Namosh Erkan Arslan, is a German singer, musician, performance artist, actor and DJ of Kurdish descent.
Life and work
Namosh has lived in Berlin since 1999 and is known ...
/
Frieder Butzmann: ''25 Jahre Geniale Diletanten'', 7",
Monitorpop Entertainment, 2006
* ''Gehörlose Musik/Deaf Music'', DVD,
Monitorpop Entertainment, 2006
* ''Séance Vocibus Avium'', 7"/CD with catalogue,
Fang Bomb, 2009
Partial bibliography
* ''Geniale Dilletanten'',
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It has two meanings:
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, 1982
* ''Die Tödliche Doris. KUNST/ART'',