Biography:

Mathias Bredholt is a composer and an embedded systems engineer. He co-founded the Copenhagen-based company Torso Electronics, where he develops an algorithmic MIDI sequencer for exploring modular-style live improvisation of electronic music. He is currently working on building an embedded platform for using libmapper. The embedded platform will allow for the design of new portable and easy assignable interfaces for musical expression. Mathias has an undergraduate in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. He performs electronic music under the moniker Areal.

Research Areas:

• Embedded Systems
• Hardware Development
• Interface Design
• Mapping
• Software Development

Projects

Publications:

• Kirkegaard, M., Bredholt, M., Frisson, C., Wanderley, M. M. (2020). TorqueTuner: A self contained module for designing rotary haptic force feedback for digital musical instruments. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) (pp. 6). Birmingham, UK.
• Kirkegaard, M., Bredholt, M., Marcelo Wanderley, a. M. (2020). An intermediate mapping layer for interactive sequencing. In Proc. of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII) (pp. 10). Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Wanderley, M. M., Bredholt, M., Frisson, C. (2020). A Visualization Tool for the CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture Series. In Proc. of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII). Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Calegario, F., Wanderley, M., Tragtenberg, J., Wang, J., Sullivan, J., Meneses, E., Franco, I., Kirkegaard, M., Bredholt, M., Rohs, J. (2020). Probatio 1.0: collaborative development of a toolkit for functional DMI prototypes. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) (pp. 6). Birmingham, UK.
• Bredholt, M. (2021). Live-looping of Distributed Gesture-to-sound Mappings. In M.A. Thesis, McGill University (pp. 76). Montreal, Canada.
• Frisson, C., Bredholt, M., Malloch, J., Wanderley, M. M. (2021). MapLooper: Live-looping of distributed gesture-to-sound mappings. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2021). Shanghai, China.

Contacts:

• Email: mathias.bredholt@mail.mcgill.ca
• Website: https://soundcloud.com/areal0