Longterm Projects on Mads Kjeldgaard — Composer and Sound Artist

Modular Algorithmic Sound System (M.A.S.S.)

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

MASS is a software system for creating, exploring, and improvising music.

It is a composition-instrument that contains compositional ideas in abstract form. For example, melodies are represented as relative distances rather than explicit pitches, which allows further manipulation of the basic pitch gesture. Rhythms are equally abstract - represented as binary numbers and geometric algorithms.

The system is designed to make structural musical changes intuitively available during performance/composition. Musical choices, decisions, and combinations are encapsulated in parameters, and as such, using the system becomes a form of exploration of musical possibility spaces - the interpolation of the composer’s musical ideas, finding unknown zones in your own musical material. There is no difference between performing, composing, and improvising with this system. All acts are equal in the sense that they are explorations where the composer-performer is finding new musical territories at the same time as the listener.

Algo-Generative Music Composition

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Exformal Records

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It was founded in 2024 by Mads Kjeldgaard as a platform for artists and musicians to release sound-based works and thinking.

Haptic Fields

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Haptic Fields is an artistic research project exploring the potential of material vibration — that is, vibrations not in the air (like sound) but rather in other materials like water, sand, soil, trees, plants and the human body.

In biology, these sorts of vibrations are called ‘substrate vibrations’. More than 150.000 species in nature have been identified to communicate solely through substrate vibrations. Studies of fossils show that the earliest vertebrates on land detected substrate vibrations before they were able to hear airborne sounds, by laying their jaws against the soil, allowing a bone-structure in the jaw to conduct vibrations to their inner ears.¹

Hyaline Systems

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000