Mads Kjeldgaard

Mads Kjeldgaard is a sound artist and composer from Denmark. His work explores presence and time – at the moment with a particular emphasis on slow music, silence and environmental sounds. He is the founder of the record label Exformal Records and is a member of The Danish Composers’ Society. Kjeldgaard studied Electronic Music Composition at the Danish Institute of Electronic Music (DIEM) at the Royal Academy of Music and has a degree in journalism from the Danish School of Media and Journalism.

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Photo by Sofie Amalie Klougart, 2025.


Releases by Mads Kjeldgaard

exformal zones digital (zone003)
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An audio essay about the so-called quiet zone in the Copenhagen S-train system.

tea / digital (ex003)
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12 hours, 15 minutes and 7 seconds of minimalist background music. And a bag of tea.

cd-r / digital (ex001)
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Slow ambient piano looping with the window open and the outside world seeping in.