About Mads Kjeldgaard
Mads Kjeldgaard is a composer and sound artist from Denmark. He works mainly in the fields of algorithmic composition and interactive sound art, using self-authored software and hardware, generative processes, patterns, biology, and sound environments to create dazzling sonic structures.
In 2024, he founded the platform Exformal Records for sound and listening-based thinking. He studied electronic music composition at The Royal Academy of Music (DIEM), trained as a journalist, and is a member of The Danish Composers’ Society.
His work has been commissioned by NyMusikk, Aggregate Festival, The Norwegian Centre for Technology and Art, The Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, Intonal Festival, Aggregate Festival and Lemur Ensemble among others. In 2019 he won a gold award at the International Spatial Audio Conference.
He has worked for years in arts-related institutions, from helping run the artist residency camp.fr in the mountains in France to working as a technician and developer at The Norwegian Center for Arts and Technology (aka Notam), and as a software developer for music instruments at Torso Electronics, among other things. He is an open source software contributor, making and maintaining different softwares relating to arts, sound and music, and shares creative technology and open-source hardware through hyaline.systems.
Press photos
Mads Kjeldgaard photographed by Sofie Amalie Klougart 2025.
Click here to download press photos.
Contact
Email:
Chat / instant message: Signal.