Mads Kjeldgaard — Composer and Sound Artist

September 10, 2025

Algo-Generative Music Composition

Algo-Generative Music is what I call my practice of composing using a combination of maths, probabilities, or numeric rules, often organised in patterns reminiscent of weaving recipes. It's an ongoing project exploring what musical possibilities might emerge when we abstract musical expressions into relative instruction sets, numbers and data to allow the creation of ever-evolving figures and structures in time and harmony.

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An example of algorithmic composition from Iannis Xenakis' classic book on the subject, Formalized Music (1963/1981)

Algo-Generative Music Composition projects:

Hyphal (2025)


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Algorithmic music for a computer-controlled pipe organ, celebrating life.

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Empty Cloud (2025)


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12 hours, 15 minutes and 7 seconds of minimalist background music.

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Akkorder (2020)


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Algorithmic music CD release on Ambitious Tapes.

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Hold Time (2020)


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Algorithmic music release on SuperPang.

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Internal Organs (2023)


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A 4 channel interactive installation for virtual organs.

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Musik for virtuelle orgler (2023)


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A release of algorithmic organ music for virtual organs on SuperPang.

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