christian müller, born in 1971 near basel, switzerland, is clarinettist and electronic-musician. he completed his classical studies at the conservatory for music & theater berne in 1996 with a teacher's diploma and in 1998 with a reifediplom (master). during the last fifteen years christian müller worked mainly as improvising electronic-musician, electro-acoustic bass-clarinettist and composer with a conceptual approach. he realized numerous works with his duo strøm (with gaudenz badrutt, electronics, since 2000), and also in national and international projects with musicians like hans koch, martin schütz, jonas kocher and tomas korber. as member of strøm and as a solo musician he created several sound installations and audiovisual pieces and also worked in multimedia-based contexts with dancers and performers. since 2002 he composes regularly music for theater productions a. o. at the staatstheater stuttgart (de), the schauspielhaus wien (at), the staatsschauspiel dresden (de), the stadttheater bern (ch) or the luzerner theater (ch). additionally to his music, christian müller regularly organizes concerts and festivals, among them the ear we are, an international festival for improvised music in biel, switzerland.

working bands:
-) strøm: duo with gaudenz badrutt since 2000
-) deer: an electronic bass clarinet-trio with hans koch and silber ingold since 2011
-) ad'absurdum meets strøm: a collaboration between the instrumental rock band ad'absurdum and strøm since 2010
-) dark: duo with the bass player daniel sailer since 2010
-) low pass boogie: duo with the drummer peter conradin zumthor 2007 - 2009

diverse collaborations in concerts and in multimedia-based works, a. o. with the musicians norbert möslang, günter müller, martin schütz, hans koch, tomas korber, diatribes, jonas kocher, burkhard beins, clayton thomas, bertrand gauguet, michel doneda, peter conradin zumthor, daniel sailer, lionel friedli, simon hostettler, lê ninh quan, dieb13, susanna gartmayer as well as katharina vogel (dance), adrian russi (dance), jacques zwahlen (actor), verena lafarque (objects) and miriam affolter (visual works).

rewards/grants/residencies:
-) 2010: commission 'music and dance' by the swiss art foundation pro helvetia for the composition of the music for the dance-music-duet 'ohr' (katharina vogel & christian müller)
-) 2009: grant for the composition of the music of 'somnonaut', solo piece of the performer philipp boë, by the ssa (swiss association of the authors)
-) 2008 and 2009: work residencies at the institute steim in amsterdam
-) 2006: six month's residency 'zeit' on the lofoten, norway.
-) 2004: first price of the concours de reding (by schweizerischer tonkünstlerverein, the swiss association for contemporary music) with strøm
-) 2002: reward 'coup de coeur' by the committee for music of the kanton bern
several financial supports by the city of biel and the kanton of bern for works by strøm



biography of gaudenz badrutt - bandhistory