Lars from Mars

The realtime electronic music project of Lars Graugaard is founded in early experiments into improvised music, weird daydreaming in modernistic score music and a deep love for all bodily functions.

Having an extensive background in composition, performing and programming, Lars is in an ideal position to explore intense rhythms and abstract and torn-up sound worlds. He is equally at home with the dance-floor and the concert hall, but he inevitably goes for those peak moments of high intensity and complete immersion.

Performances are always in realtime with procedures written into custom computer code for algorithmic rendering of the basic musical ideas and sectional development. Many if these ideas come from research into aspects of music that account for generally perceived musical expression and emotion. He is presently guest artist at NYU's department for Music & Technology.