Build a Monster Instrument (ages 5-14)

Name: Build a Monster Instrument (ages 5-14)
Start: 2026-10-12T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-12T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Kulbaneparken

took place · 12 Oct 2026

Kulbaneparken, Copenhagen

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Composer and instrument maker Lars Kynde has gathered a collection of gadgets that can create funny and strange sounds. Together, you will build them into an instrument that keeps growing, eventually transforming into one big, shared monster instrument - and you'll have your very own weird monster sound.

The workshop takes place at Lanternen, at the staffed playground in Kulbaneparken. It is especially aimed at children aged 5-14, accompanied by an adult.

About the venue: Kulbaneparken

Kulbaneparken is a 44,000 m² park in Valby, built on the site of the former Valby Gasværk, which exploded in 1964 and killed five people. The park sits on top of the covered Ringstedbane tunnel, and the raised terrain forms a ridge called Drageryggen, complete with a zip line and a lookout tower. The gasworks history is woven into the design through windbreaks marking the explosion lines and materials such as black steel and stone dust. Alongside the skate landscape Kulgraven, an artificial grass pitch and a staffed playground, the park has an amphitheatre stage for concerts and theatre.

Kulbanevej 12, 2500 Valby Get directions

About: Lars Kynde

Danish composer and instrument builder Lars Kynde designs his own, often mechanical, musical instruments and turns them into concerts and sound installations. He has taught children to build and compose for their own instruments, and collaborated with Danish broadcaster DR on presenting his music.

1981

born year

2007

Master's degree in Composition from the Royal Danish Academy of Music

2010

completed ArtScience education in The Hague

first prize winner at Tokyo Experimental Festival

What's new

2025-02
Lars Kynde completed a residency at Inter Arts Center in Malmö, where he investigated how magnetic fields can change the overtones in metal strings.
2025-07
A new work by Kynde for viola d'amore and artificial intelligence had its world premiere at Brinkhall Festival in Turku, Finland.
2023
Kynde's science fiction chamber opera Posthuman, which among other things uses artificial intelligence-generated singing created with Vocaloid, had its premiere.

Tracks

Elefanthjerte (Elephant Heart)one of his well-known works for home-built instruments, composed in 2010

Vandrende Pindinstrument and composition machine, award-winning performance in Tokyo

Tasteful Turntablesensory performance about synesthesia between music and gastronomy, created with his brother Nikolaj Kynde

Posthumanscience fiction chamber opera from 2023 with artificial intelligence voice

Uspået Frugtinterdisciplinary work with instrument puppets, world premiere at KLANG Festival 2023

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