The Mechanical Artist and Sound Whiz Martin Müller is a trained mechanic and body therapist. From 1984 until 1990 he owned and operated a mechanical and metalworking shop. In 1991 he ventured in a new direction, creating the Midea company to develop and design his own interior furnishings and lighting products. Martin Müller has been involved in the design and technical operations of exhibitions and has also collaborated on various audiovisual and artistic projects.Alongside these activities, he did a four-year part-time training course as a shiatsu therapist, following which he had his own part-time shiatsu therapy studio for seven years until 2005.
The synthesis of knowledge, experiences and observations from his different occupations and activities animated him to create his own art objects. In 2002 he started to realise his ideas.

He constructs and programmes controlled interactive devices with audiovisual effects. Cinematic illusion-generators and watch-like precision instruments at one and the same time, they afford glimpses of continually re-composed soundscapes.

We all love to be seduced by technology and mechanical devices. Technology addresses the supernatural and artificial life: music-boxes, mechanical gadgets and dolls have been used for entertainment and to cause a stir at fairs and in bourgeois salons. 
We all love to use automatic devices. We know about robots, and are wowed by sensational new inventions presented at technology fairs. The artist Rebecca Horn's Peacock Machine reveals these facets as it unfolds into an artificial peacock's wheel. In Martin Müller's kinetic objects and musical devices we can actively interact to create ever new effects to fascinate our eyes and ears.

As Jonas Mekas, the American experimental film-maker has said, improvisation is the highest form of concentration. Martin Müller's art is the result of an extended process of invention, creation and manufacture. The artist experiments with assemblages of all manner of ingredients to create interactive, improvisational constructions.
Sound is an essential part of his creations; technology is more a means to an end. And what is the end, the purpose of Martin Müller's works? 
While the German artist Cornelia Sollfrank uses machines - her net.art generator - to produce art for her, Müller's machines are more like partners that perform in (art) space. Müller's creations surprise and entertain us.

His training in technology and mechanics and in human physiology serve him well to create his often figurative sculptures and objects. His highly differentiated media of interactive communication are programmed to make a subtle yet strong physical and lively impact. 
Balloons, toys, percussion instruments; whistles and pipes, pumps, mist or fog, light; countless metal joints, arcs, screws; boxes full of wires and circuit boards - it all comes together in his sculptures. Each one of these filigree structures with their sombre, matte finish is a kind of performer for an evening's home entertainment. Suddenly they begin to pump spastically, they emit sound or steam or light. We can see what materials they are made of, and how they function - yet it is their mystery that holds us spell-bound.

These objects seem to have their own secrets and we are waiting for their messages. Martin Müller's next sculpture should write - we would love to read it.