Hans Muller

Hans Muller (NL) once studied to become a barrel organ builder. He became an artist, but he used his knowledge to produce ceramic organ-stones; modular bricks, which are stackable and have the ability to pass air and generate sound. The dream is to build an Organ House, a pavilion or folly that visitors can enter to experience what it sounds like inside a musical instrument. Muller used a 3D designed wooden press-in-mold with CNC-milled and 3D printed plastic rabbets. The hollow air-tubes were made with our mechanical extruder. Muller also created a flute-stone in which an extruded hollow tube has been modified by hand to function as a flute, inspired by an archaeological discovery near Dordrecht (NL) of a flute from the fourteenth century, which turned out to herald the origin of church organ building in the Netherlands. Being impatient, waiting for the clay to dry, Muller worked on a side project he named Ritalin Man. He made a 3D scan of his own body which was then 3D printed in clay. The body was glazed with an underglaze and the box received a glaze transfer.