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taohojgaard.bsky.social
Musician, Composer, Sound Artist and MSc student at IT University of Copenhagen Improvised electronic music, generative music, science and art. web: https://mutestate.com/ sound: https://mutestate.bandcamp.com/ video: https://youtube.com/@MuteStateVideo
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This is a three-minute example of my latest methodical transfer epistemic art–science project at @itu.dk‬: AirPrint, a real-time exploration of urban air quality. The music reflects the concentration of six air pollutants measured in central Copenhagen on May 7th at 6:48pm. #ArtScience #AffectTheory

An experimental platform combining chess with real-time harmonics. Each move triggers a chord tied to a board position, letting players hear their gameplay. After the game, the full game becomes a continuous chord progression. #audiovisualresearch #musictech #generativemusic #DiatonicChess

The Diatonic Diamond: a self-similar harmonic grid where every part reflects the whole. Suggests new models for fractal composition — harmony unfolding recursively across scales. Interactive version here: www.mutestate.com/Diatonic_Dia... #harmony #fractal #music #MethodologicalTransferEpistemology

Time Prism: Affective Audio Modelling of Social Transformation (1820–1920). Created in collaboration with AIR Lab @itu.dk An immersive synthesis of historical data, sound, and visual dynamics. #SoundArt #AudioModelling #history #AIRLab #datavisualization #ArtAndScience

New composition tool in the making. The tool doubles as an affective chess game analyser by converting chess games into chord progressions. #AffectTheory #generativemusic #algorithmiccomposition #MethodicalTransferEpistemology

A little diatonic experiment. Maybe a key in spe to fractal composition. 🤔🤗 #musicgeometry #fractalcomposition #modalexploration #experimentalnotation

Virtual Ikebana based on Fibonacci numbers 9 loops (1–55 min), starting randomly, always aligning musically. A 3D soundwork inspired by Japanese flower art – 3 sound types (soundscape, melody, bass) arranged in 3 asymmetrical triangles following Ikebana principles. #GenerativeSound, #FibonacciMusic

My latest “art as scientific method” @itu.dk: an app-based art project where real-time air quality data shapes a soundscape, visualized through color codes. Seven data points (gases + particles) distort the ideal sound. AR makes users see and hear air quality around them. #Art_Science #DataDrivenArt

Through my studies at @itu.dk I've developed a rhizomatic composition tool and technique, that could become a new way of releasing autogenerative music ... not just digitally but also physically. Try out the prototype! #GenerativeMusic #AlgorithmicComposition #AffectTheory #ArtisticResearch #Deleuze

Come check out my alter ego on Friday (if you should happen to be in Copenhagen).

A final shout-out about my geometric scale and chord tool, which I now declare complete. The tool is packed with features such as chord and scale recognition, a random chord and scale generator, a root tone soundscape, MIDI export, and much more. #Scales #Chords #MusicTheory #Geometry

Switching between Root Scape and Rndm Seq allows you to hear your scale in a dynamic musical setting, with Root Scape providing a tonal foundation for the random note combinations. #ScaleAndChordTool #MusicalGeometry #MusicTheory #ScaleExploration #HarmonicContext #MelodicDiscovery #ModalExploration

Beautiful scale! I call it Hexatonic dominant (b9#5), and with C as the root, I call it Diminished 13 Hexatonic. It’s balanced and full of tension, just as the geometric form suggests. Try it yourself here: www.mutestate.com/itu/Fretboard/ #HexatonicDiminished13 #AlteredScales #GeometricComposition

I'm on an updating/upgrading streak! So many new features. Here´s the preset scale view mode 🤷‍♂️ Try it out and let me know how it works for you. #CustomTools #MusicTheory #GeometricMusic #Scales #Chords www.mutestate.com/itu/Fretboard/

New feature in my scale and chord tool! I have implemented a new view that allows a geometric perspective on scales and chords. Here is a whole-tone scale that very satisfyingly becomes a perfect hexagon. #MusicTheory #Scales #Chords #Fretboard #GeometricShapes

I've updated my custom scale tool for guitar players with a staff line. Hope my guitar-playing audience will find it useful. #InteractiveFretboard #CustomScales #GuitarTool #MusicNotation #MusicTheory #FretboardOverview

Come say Hi to my alter ego @mutestate.bsky.social tomorrow night! We’d be delighted to see you!

I have created a little tool to help me create and get an overview of custom scales and patterns. The tool can be used by guitarists of all levels. Behold the Interactive Fretboard. #GuitarTool #CustomScales #FretboardOverview #Jazzguitar

A view from the stage at a past Science & Cocktails event in Copenhagen. #ScienceAndCocktails #LiveElectronics #Dawless #JazzDub

An early sketch of how rhythm can be used to understand molecular structures. #ScienceAndArt #SoundArt #TransferEpistemology #Nucleotide #MolecularMusic

The periodic table is a beat! This musical model translates the periodic table using electron shells, orbitals, and Pauli's exclusion principle. Elements unfold over a four-bar period, offering an intuitive understanding of their electron configurations. #ScienceAndArt #SoundArt #QuantumMusic

I am starting a project at AIR Lab @itu.dk, exploring sound art as an affective research method for historians. The project condenses 100 years into 10 minutes, sonically rendering tensions and interactions between social segments to reveal historical power dynamics. #ScienceAndArt #AffectTheory

Electronic music is the new jazz! #Jazz #Electronic #RealMusic #FutureSound

My Alter Ego and I, we really do love Blade Runner! Check out our BR homage – live electronics and live jazz guitar ... appropriately played on a Fender JazzMaster. Also, make sure to follow my alter ego here: bsky.app/profile/mute... #Downtempo #Dawless #RealTimeComposition #improvisation

Affect theory in the wake of Spinoza, Deleuze, and Massumi renders art a relevant research method in both the natural sciences and the humanities. Through methodical transfer epistemology, I am exploring how affect can propel academic research toward new forms of realization. #ArtAndScience #STEAM

A repost from my alter ego @mutestate.bsky.social

Here’s a reel of my audiovisual symphonic representation of protein synthesis. Science translated methodically into musical algorithm. The piece was commissioned by Aarhus University. #SoundArt #CentralDogma #ScienceArt #DNA #AminoAcid #TransferEpistemology

Once loaded, this interactive ambient music machine lets you combine 9 visualized loops – composed to interact seamlessly no matter how and when they're combined – into an ever-evolving generative musical soundscape. #GenerativeArt #SoundArt #Fibonacci #InteractiveArt #SoundScape #AlgorithmicMusic

Here’s a vibe report from one of my literature concerts: an Inger Christensen text interacts with, and partially defines, the music. #IngerChristensen #LiteratureConcert #SoundArt #ExperimentalSound #TextAndMusic #InterdisciplinaryArt

I have developed a new composition technique, Rhizomatic Composition (Inspired by Deleuze et. al. Basically, incomplete musical expressions which are completed in random encounters with each other – forming a constantly evolving and ever-changing composition. #rhizome #deleuze #guattari #generative

Here's a short vibe report from a live session. #electronicjazz #jazzdub #dawless #downtempo youtu.be/VOyzOlhFSi4

This program is really a transaesthetic art work. It utilizes rhizomatic composition as the accompaniment while deconstructing text and melody. New meaning both literately and musically each time the program is run. #algorithmicart #deconstruction #soundart #digitalessay

Try out my prototype of a text to music sequencer, synthesizer and drum machine. An inspirational tool for musicians and composers and a research tool for linguists. #artandscience #semiotics #affectiveresearch www.mutestate.com/itu/seq_og_s...

Photosynthesis and Respiration as musical algorithm #artandscience #soundart #algorithmicmusic