Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Mute State – Electronic X Files | Copenhagen Jazz Festival

Reposted by Mute State

Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · Jul 12

Tonight at 20.00 o'clock
#CphJazzFestival2025
jazz.dk/copenhagen-j...

12/7 2025, kl. 20:00 | Bevar's | Med samplede stemmer, jazzguitar og synthesizere som lydkilder, skaber Mute State lydkollager og non-lineær elektronisk musik. Alt bliver skabt på stedet, uden brug af...

jazz.dk

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

3 Minutes of Audible Air Pollution!

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Jun 11

Come hang out!!

Reposted by Mute State

Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · May 7

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

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

2 3

Reposted by Mute State

Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

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

2 4

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Apr 8

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_...

Virtual Ikebana

www.mutestate.com

Mute State Downtempo/Electronic/Jazzscape

Reposted by Mute State

Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · Apr 5

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.

2 8

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Mar 17

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

Tactility, by Mute State

track by Mute State

mutestate.bandcamp.com

4

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Mar 10

If you are in Copenhagen this coming Friday!
#LiveElectronic #Ambient #JazzScape #Downtempo

2

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 22

Electronic real time composition!
#Dawless #ElectronicJazz #Downtempo #JazzDub

4

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 21

Using geometry in musical composition!

Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · Feb 21

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

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 13

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

Electronic Guitar Forms, by Mute State

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 10

A sneak peek mutestate.bandcamp.com/album/electr...

4 track album

mutestate.bandcamp.com

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 10

If you should happen to find yourself in Copenhagen tomorrow, this would be the place to spend your evening. 🔈🎶
#VinterJazz2025 #ElectronicJazz #LiveElectronics #JazzDub #Dawless #Downtempo

Mute State – Electronic side of Jazz | Vinterjazz

11/2 2025, kl. 20:00 | Bevar's | Med samplede stemmer, jazzguitar og synthesizere som lydkilder, skaber Mute State lydkollager og non-lineær elektronisk musik. Alt bliver skabt på stedet, uden brug af...

jazz.dk

1 3

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 9

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

Binary Blues for David, live improv by Mute state

A tool for practising custom scales on guitar

1 8

Reposted by Mute State

Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · Feb 9

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

Interactive Fretboard

www.mutestate.com

1 4

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 9

Thanks, I’ll be looking into his philosophy. If Deleuze wrote a book about it, it must be something.
“Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.” From Wikipedia

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 8

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

1 5

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 4

Mute State – Electronic side of Jazz | Vinterjazz

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 3

If you're in Copenhagen this Wednesday come check out the Electronic side of Jazz!
#LiveElectronics #Downtempo #LiveJazz #Dawless #CopenhagenJazzFestival #WinterJazz2025
jazz.dk/en/vinterjaz...

5/2 2025, kl. 20:00 | Bevar's | Med samplede stemmer, jazzguitar og synthesizere som lydkilder, skaber Mute State lydkollager og non-lineær elektronisk musik. Alt bliver skabt på stedet, uden brug af ...

jazz.dk

1 5

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Feb 2

A musical model of the periodic table!
#MusicInScience #PeriodicBeats #QuantumRhythm #ScienceInSound #AtomicBeats #ExperimentalMusic

Tao Højgaard @taohojgaard.bsky.social · Feb 2

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

The Periodic Table illustrated in sound

2

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thank you for looking into it and for your positive comment!

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

Mute State @mutestate.bsky.social · Jan 31

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