Lars Graugaard (born

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, 10 February 1957) is a Danish

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and a laptop performer of

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and experimental

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music.

Education

Graugaard studied at

The Royal Danish Academy of Music The Royal Danish Academy of Music, or Royal Danish Conservatory of Music (), in Copenhagen is the oldest professional institution of musical education in Denmark as well as the largest, with approximately 400 students. It was established in 186 ...

between 1977 and 1983. He studied composition with

Niels Viggo Bentzon Niels Viggo Bentzon (24 August 1919 – 25 April 2000) was a Danish composer and pianist. Biography Bentzon was born and died in Copenhagen. He was the son of Viggo Bentzon (1861-1937), Rector of Copenhagen University and Karen Hartmann (188 ...

, flute performance with , and supplementary studies with Michel Debost. Graugaard graduated in 1983 with an MA in flute performance. In the early 1980s he briefly sought compositional advice from leading Danish composers before pursuing self-guided studies in composition and other forms of musical creation. He received a

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from

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in 2006 with his dissertation ''Gesture And Emotion In Interactive Music – Artistic and Technological Challenges'', under the supervision of Robert Rowe and Paul Dibley.

Career

Since the late 2000s he has used empirical studies from

cognitive musicology Cognitive musicology is a branch of cognitive science concerned with computationally modeling musical knowledge with the goal of understanding both music and cognition. Cognitive musicology can be differentiated from other branches of music psych ...

into the correlation between emotion and score notation to guide musical discourse and development. This allows him to preserve his compositional materials and procedures, while at the same time attending the music's expressive dimension, as manifested in works such as "Three Places" (2011), "Venus" (2013) and "Engage And Share" (2014). Implementing aspects of his compositional procedures in computer code has allowed him to use empirical models of pitch sequences. Temperley, David (2006). A Probabilistic Model of Melody Perception. Cognitive Science 32 (2008), pp. 418–444.

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