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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Thank you WAC25 and @ircam.bsky.social for three super interesting days at the coolest research center any sound artist could dream of! Here’s a snapshot from my performance of the periodic table last night. #IRCAM #WAC25 #Musification #ElectronConfigurations #EpistemicMusic

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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Arrived in Paris today. Getting ready to perform the periodic table as musical algorithm tomorrow at @ircam.bsky.social (WAC25) #SoundArt #ResearchThroughMusic

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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This Friday 3:30 PM in AIR LAB @itu.dk The Periodic Table is a BEAT! (Live) and EMMA The Dance Machine (interactive installation). Electron configs as music algorithm and embodied musical interaction design live concert and presentation! #AffectTheory #SomaDesign #ArtScience #PeriodicTable #SoundArt

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Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Copenhagen Jazzfestival is going on. Concert starts at 20.00 at Bevar’s Nørrebro Copenhagen. #CopenhagenJazzfestival2025

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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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

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3 Minutes of Audible Air Pollution!

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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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

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Time Prism: A Sonic Visualization of Social Transformation 1820–1920

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Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Try out my virtual ikebana. 9 loops ranging from 1 - 55 minutes. All composed to be combined in any way possible resulting in a never ending musical output. #ikebana #AlgorithmicMusic #GenerativeMusic #Fibonacci www.mutestate.com/itu/virtual_...

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Virtual Ikebana

A generative 3D soundwork based on Fibonacci loops and Japanese Ikebana principles.

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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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

The latest offshoot of the “art as scientific method” branch in my studies and research at IT University of Copenhagen, is an audiovisual project for iPhones. Real-time data from air quality measurements creates a soundscape that is visualized using color codes. Pure, ideal air is represented by a clear soundscape, which is obstructed in real time via seven data points (five gases and two particle sizes). It’s an app-based art experience that, through augmented reality, gives the illusion that the user can see and hear the air quality exactly where they are standing and walking.

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Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This picturesque guitarbased ambient piece deserves wider recognition I think. Give it a spin. mutestate.bandcamp.com/track/tactil... #ExpressiveAmbient #DeepListening #EtherealSounds #CinematicAmbient #DreamlikeMusic

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Tactility, by Mute State

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Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Using geometry in musical composition!

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Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Fixation is the enemy of dynamic musical expression! When improvising, I continuously shift my focus in figure-eight patterns across my machines, ensuring balanced interaction rather than fixation on a single unit. #Circle8 #RealtimeComposition #MusicPhilosophy #Dawless #MusicalNetworks #Electronic

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Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I am not a fan of the term "Dawless" instead I prefer the term "Real time composition", so here´s a video of me doing some real time composing in the realm of electro acoustic improvised music. #ElectronicJazz #RealTimeComposition #Dawless #JazzScape #DownTempo #JazzGuitar #Elektron #Digitakt

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Binary Blues for David, live improv by Mute state

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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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

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Interactive Fretboard

A tool for practising custom scales on guitar

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Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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

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Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

LoFi soundscapes, crackling textures, and fragments of melody meet enigmatic subby basslines, music that morphs dreamily along, as if Brian Eno and Miles Davis were converging in Nordic melancholy, on German soil. #ElectronicMusic #Ambient #ElectronicJazz #SoundScape #NordicNoir #Downtempo #JazzDub

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Mute State & The Trumpeter - Improvised live set 10/03/2024

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Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Electronic music is the new jazz! Here's a 4 track EP in the realm of electronic jazzyness. In each track I am exploring the intersection between minimalism, jazz improvisation and real time electronic music creation. #JazzDub #Downtempo #ElectronicJazz #Dawless #RealTimeComposition

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Electronic Guitar Forms, by Mute State

4 track album

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Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A short vibe report from from a Mute State feat. Fridell & Fryland gig last summer. I hope to get to work a lot more with these wonderful musicians in the future. #ElectronicJazz #JazzDub #LiveElectronics #PelleFridell #AndreasFryland #MuteState

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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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

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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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

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Ikebana Interactive - Generative Music

Blend 9 loops based on the Fibonacci sequence into infinite musical expressions.

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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

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

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Rhizomatic Composition Tool

A tool for rhizomatic composition.

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Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

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

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The Dysfunctional Philosopher Deconstructed

A captivating exploration of a mind unraveling the paradoxes of truth, freedom, and meaning.

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