Lars Graugaard is a Danish composer, performer and music producer with a long and varied trajectory. He holds a degree as flute performer from the Royal Danish Conservatory and a PhD in the artistic and technological challenges of interactive music from Oxford Brookes University. He has released over 40 full albums in his own name (LPs, CDs, DVDs, digitals), he has composed more than 200 score compositions from opera and symphonic to chamber music and installations, and he performs improvisatory music with improvisers and experimental yet festive techno music under the Lars From Mars moniker. He is presently Visiting Faculty Artist at New York University’s Department of Music and Performing Arts.
 
 
Lars will discuss his work in turning the laptop into a musical instrument that may be efficient in a range of performance and music production situations. He will outline his concept of music as a rich, performative ecosystem, and he will discuss and provide examples of how that transforms into decisions for score composing, computer programming and stage strategies in an embracing musicianship. He will explain his artistic strategies and how he incorporates scientific findings in the areas of human perception and cognitive musicology, and how he turns it into functioning, musical computer code.