Rutger Muller

WTF Just Happened? (student adventure game project)

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:39:20 +0000

I made some Kraftwerk-meets-Chiptune-meets-John-Williams-meets-Dubstep music for Utrecht School of The Arts game developers/designers.

It’s the first scene of an adventure game, with lots and lots of nerdy references, can you spot them all?

…then Play it now!

rom left to right: Niek Tuerlings (Programmer), Rutger Muller (Sound Designer),
Tom Van Der Linden (Artist) and Marc De Vreede (Game Designer).

Check the development blog here.

Unofficial (School assignment) composition for Audi Commercial

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:32:11 +0000

My take on Audi.

Epic, high-tech, and powerful. Influenced by Hans Zimmer, (film music), Philip Glass (minimal music), Flying Lotus (hip-hop) and Alva Noto (glitch).

my new composition: http://www.rutgermuller.nl/video/Audi_Rutger.mov (opens in new window)

the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVQKrxSOx7Q (opens in new window)

Future Ballet (2008)

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:06:03 +0000

Dark but soothing experimental electronica with piano and cello. Satie was my inspiration for the piano. The grand noises are influenced by Sigur Rós and other post-rock bands. The main effect I used was the crazy little freeware VST plug-in called Crazy Ivan. [photo from State Library Of Queensland, no known copyright]

Chime Multiplayer Trailer

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:08:58 +0000

I made one of the interactive musical compositions for Chime Multiplayer. In-game video demonstrating interactive musical elements will be up soon hopefully. But in the meantime, here are the first moving images.

Stolen Couch Games (stolencouchgames.com): ”Chime Multiplayer was created by students of the Utrecht School of the Arts for Zoë Mode under supervision of Martin de Ronde and René Derks. // We would like to thank: Martin de Ronde, Martien, Peerdeman, Wendy Draaijer and Marinka Copier for giving us such an awesome assignment, Ard Bonewald for his game changing feedback and support, Dutch Game Garden for promoting our game at Indigo & NLGD (Festival Of Games), all the hundreds of testers who gave us their feedback, Zoë Mode for lending us their wonderful IP.”

Chime Multiplayer Trailer (music: Rutger Muller – Thrust Me) from Rutger Muller on Vimeo.

Minimal Music Study June 2009

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:01:53 +0000

This is a minimal music piece in which a wind instrument and a piano together create polyrhythmic patterns, which means for example that the piano can play a small 3 counts loop and the wind instrument a 20 counts loop. The harmonies and melody slowly evolve. There’s also a focus on volume dynamics. There’s some Morton Feldman influence in this.

Minimal Music Study June 2009 by RutgerMuller

[image - no known copyright - from the Brooklyn Museum Open Collection ]

Rain Steam And Speed

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:29:43 +0000

Inspired by J. M. W. Turner’s painting Rain, Steam And Speed – The Great Western Railway I made this collage of processed and edited samples from classical instruments. The deep drones are influenced by Sunn O))). I only used a couple of samples:
1) a part of ‘Cello Fundamentals’ by richtcello via freesound.org: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=32439
2) sample from Dianne Verdonk playing cello
3) small part from a Vienna Wind Solists play Ligeti record.

Drone sounds inspired by Murcof and Sunn O))).

Rain Steam and Speed by RutgerMuller

Out Now: DS-10 Dominator – The Smallest Party Ever

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:55:54 +0000

New FREE DOWNLOADABLE music from my Nintendo DS dance project: http://www.ds10dominator.com/music/. Expect electro/dubstep/drum ‘n’ bass/melodic/”chiptune”/gabber/….

Live laptop versus cello improvisation with Dianne Verdonk @ Zaal 100

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:36:51 +0000

Last night in Zaal 100 Dianne and I presented our partly improvised 10 minute work for cello and electronics.

Listen or download

Dianne Verdonk (Cello) & Rutger Muller (Ableton Live) – Improvisation 13 January 2010 by rutgermuller

Review by Digitale Kunst Review

DUTCH: “Blended en augmented reality
Onze werkelijkheid is steeds meer een mengsel van het fysieke en het virtuele (blended) en wordt daar rijker van (augmented). Dat lieten twee studenten, Rutger Muller (laptop) en Dianne Verdonk (celliste) in hun performance horen. Zij hielden de zaal in de greep met een dialoog tussen laptop en een cello.

De mix van analoog en digitaal werd versterkt door in de compositie muzikaal idioom uit de ‘oude’ wereld her te gebruiken: klezmerachtige intervallen en ritmes. Was dit postmoderne ironie of een blijk van de hedendaagse nostalgie die we zo in de architectuur aantreffen?”

ENGLISH: “Blended and augmented reality
Our reality is increasingly a mixture of physical and virtual (blended) and gets enriched by that (augmented). This is what two students, Rutger Muller (laptop) and Dianne Verdonk (cello) showed with their performance. They placed the audience in the middle of a dialogue between laptop and a cello.

The mix of analog and digital composition was reinforced by the musical idiom of the “old” world re-used: klezmer-like rhythms and intervals. Was this postmodern irony or a sign of nostalgia today as we find in the architecture? “

Image: ‘Corona of sun during eclipse in 1900′ – copyright unknown – source: smithsonian institute

DS-10 Dominator website online!

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:05:39 +0000

I welcome you all to visit the website of my 100% Korg DS-10 (Nintendo DS) live act.
The URL is simply: DS10Dominator.com. On it you can find free music, show dates, pictures, videos, etc.

Chiptune Inspired Music for Video Game Installation

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:01:31 +0000

I made chiptune/8bit-inspired music for the prototype of a 4-screen game-installation developed by 2nd year Game Design students at the Utrecht School of The Arts.

Listen and download for free

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