installation
Moans and Groans (2025)
Listening through touch – a series of vibrator sound sculptures.
The sculptures of Moans and Groans explore this fundamental question: How do we listen with our skin? How does nature with its skin?
These questions are explored through a series of sound sculptures that translate recordings of trees’ movements into vibrations in tree branches.
A twig with a vibration motor attached inside, playing back vibrations from a tree recording. Photo: Mads Kjeldgaard, 2025.
Each sculpture contains a vibrator motor. Using custom electronics, they repurpose technology from sex toys, smartphones, and gamepads to translate audio into vibrations, a tactile language well known by anyone in our modern era through the everyday use of consumer electronics. Viewers are invited to touch the sculptures and feel the vibrations they transmit.
The title refers equally to the activities of the trees recorded – how they react to movements and wind in their surroundings – as well as the activities commonly associated with vibrator motor technology.
The first exhibition with these sculptures will be at Notam in Oslo, Norway where they will be installed from April 2025.
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Workshop at Notam, 2025
In conjunction with the installation, a workshop will be held at the same place on the subject of haptic feedback where participants will be allowed to play with the electronics themselves. Click here to sign up.
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Moans and Groans (2025)
Listening through touch – a series of vibrator sound sculptures.
Empty Cloud (2025)
12 hours, 15 minutes and 7 seconds of minimalist background music.
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Space In Between (2024)
Slow ambient piano looping with the window open and the outside world seeping in.
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Internal Organs (2023)
A 4 channel interactive installation for virtual organs.
Musik for virtuelle orgler (2023)
A release of algorithmic organ music for virtual organs on SuperPang.
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Death Told So Clearly To Fuck Off (2022)
Ambisonic (3D audio) piece for speaker domes.
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Singularity: Music for a dance performance (2022)
Interactive sounds and music for solo dancer Külli Roosna.
Akkorder (2020)
Algorithmic music CD release on Ambitious Tapes.
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Computer Music Journal, Volume 44, Issue 4 - Space as instrument (MIT) (2020)
Feature in MIT's Computer Music Journal.
Hold Time (2020)
Algorithmic music release on SuperPang.
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I Solens Flint 1000 Floder (2019)
Ambisonic (3D audio) piece for speaker domes, commissioned by NOTAM and Ultima Festival.
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Sværm: Båndmagasinet (The Lake) (2019)
Harmonic drone piece released as part of the Tape Magazine by The Lake/Resonans Recs.
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Hollow Body Timbals (2018)
Field recordings of cicadas. CD released by FLUF.
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States of Emergency (2018)
Electroacoustic music, released by Conditional Records.
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Else Marie Pade 'Samlede tekster' (2017)
A book collecting all texts written by the Danish composer Else Marie Pade.
Music for Power Supplies (2017)
Drones based on electromagnetic recordings of studio power supplies. Released by Co-Dependent.
Spatial remixes of classic electronic music (2019-2021)
Classic pieces remixed in ambisonics for speaker domes and sound diffusion systems.