This article is about Volker Müller (b. 1942), a German sound engineer who worked at the WDR Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne for approximately 30 years. I look into Müller’s training as a sound engineer at the Düsseldorf Sound Engineering College and his activities at the WDR studio as a way of expanding on West German post-war state’s building and cybernetics pedagogy. By complicating merely technical, operational and mechanistic views of the sound engineer’s role in the studio, I argue that Volker Müller embodied a particular culture of sound engineering and certain political and artistic utopias that resonate with broader political, economic, and pedagogical structures developed in the context of Cold War.

本文是关于沃尔克·穆勒（VolkerMüller，1942年生），他是德国声音工程师，曾在科隆WDR电子音乐工作室工作了大约30年。我将目睹穆勒在杜塞尔多夫音响工程学院（DüsseldorfSound Engineering College）担任音响工程师的培训以及他在WDR工作室的活动，以此作为扩大战后西德州州建筑和控制论教育学的一种方式。通过仅使声音工程师在录音室中的角色的技术，操作和机制观点复杂化，我认为沃尔克·穆勒（VolkerMüller）体现了声音工程的一种特殊文化以及某些政治和艺术乌托邦，它们与在该领域发展的更广泛的政治，经济和教学结构产生了共鸣。冷战的背景。