Masters Student (alumni)
Biography:
Mathias Kirkegaard is an instrument designer and electronic music enthusiast, who is concerned with improving the possibilities of physical engagement, improvisation and performance in electronic music.
His research interests lies within interface design, gestural control, mapping and algorithmic sequencing. This has led him through developing software for generative music, audio-visual installations and latest an algorithmic hardware sequencer under the company Torso electronics, which he co-founded in Denmark in 2018.
He has an undergraduate in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, and is currently studying as a masters student at McGill Music Technology under the supervision of Marcelo M. Wanderley.
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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.
- 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.
- Kirkegaard, M. (2021). Integrating 1-DoF Force Feedback Interactions In Self-Contained DMIs. In M.A. Thesis, McGill University (pp. 98). Montreal, Canada.
- Frisson, C., Kirkegaard, M., Pietrzak, T., Wanderley, M. M. (2022). ForceHost: An Open-source Toolchain for Generating Firmware Embedding the Authoring and Rendering of Audio and Force-feedback Haptics. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME2022). Auckland, NZ.