Mads Kjeldgaard — Composer and Sound Artist

dsp | electronics | arduino

Pico Programmable Audio Board (2025)

Audio development board for the Raspberry Pi PIco

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License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

A development board for working with audio, SD cards, hardware midi and sensors on the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Use this board to create interactive art projects, synthesizers, audio file players, props, USB audio interfaces, you name it.

Designed by Mads Kjeldgaard for hyaline.systems.

Features

  • High quality i2s stereo output DAC with 3.5mm line out jack: PCM5102A DAC – this DAC is widely compatible with all platforms and SDK’s, including Arduino and C.
  • SD card reader
  • NeoPixel
  • Hardware MIDI in and out.
  • Compatible with all Pico-compatible boards, including Pico 1, PicoW and Pico 2.
  • StemmaQT connector for easy i2c expansion.
  • Power: Use external power (5V) or power from USB on Pico. Circuit will automatically switch between these two sources, depending on what’s available. Includes reverse polarity protection on power input.
  • Optional: Hardware mute button may be connected directly to DAC.
  • All remaining pins broken out with lots of ground and power pins to make external connections easy
  • Reset button connected to RUN on the Pico to make it easy to restart the Pico.
  • Self-documenting board: All pins and connections are written on the board itself.
  • 4 x M3 mounting holes

Part of longterm project Hyaline Systems

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Open source creative technology for art and music.

More projects:

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Hyphal (2025)

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

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Life in the Quiet Zone (2025)

An audio essay about the so-called quiet zone in the Copenhagen S-train system.

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Moans and Groans (2025)

The forest is a sex toy: Recreating the wind in the trees through a series of sound sculptures with vibrator motors.

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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.

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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)

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Singularity: Music for a dance performance (2022)

Interactive sounds and music for solo dancer Külli Roosna.

music release
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Tour Mode (2021)

SuperPang compilation.

music release
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Akkorder (2020)

Algorithmic music CD release on Ambitious Tapes.

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Hold Time (2020)

Algorithmic music release on SuperPang.

immersive | ambisonics
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Verdenskværnen (2020)

Ambisonic (3D audio) piece for speaker domes.

immersive | ambisonics
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I Solens Flint 1000 Floder (2019)

Ambisonic (3D audio) piece for speaker domes, commissioned by NOTAM and Ultima Festival.

music release | field recording
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Hollow Body Timbals (2018)

Field recordings of cicadas. CD released by FLUF.

book
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Else Marie Pade 'Samlede tekster' (2017)

A book collecting all texts written by the Danish composer Else Marie Pade.

music release | electromagnetic
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Music for Power Supplies (2017)

Drones based on electromagnetic recordings of studio power supplies. Released by Co-Dependent.

radio
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Radio/Mixes (2017)

Various mixes and radio work.

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Spatial remixes of classic electronic music (2019-2021)

Classic pieces remixed in ambisonics for speaker domes and sound diffusion systems.

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Sværm: Båndmagasinet (The Lake) (2019)

Harmonic drone piece released as part of the Tape Magazine by The Lake/Resonans Recs.

music release
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States of Emergency (2018)

Electroacoustic music, released by Conditional Records.