Lars Kynde (b. 1981) is a Danish composer and sound artist trained in composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and in ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He is best known for building the very instruments his compositions are written for, with works that function as both concert pieces and gallery installations. Kynde co-founded the international Instrument Inventors Initiative and has toured his inventions across Europe, Japan, China and Mexico.
Lars Kynde completed a residency at Inter Arts Center in Malmö, where he investigated how magnetic fields can change the overtones in metal strings.
A new work by Kynde for viola d'amore and artificial intelligence had its world premiere at Brinkhall Festival in Turku, Finland.
Kynde's science fiction chamber opera Posthuman, which among other things uses artificial intelligence-generated singing created with Vocaloid, had its premiere.
Together with director Gertrud Exner, Kynde premiered the work Unpredicted Fruit with 8 children and 4 musicians at KLANG Festival in Copenhagen.
Kynde and Gertrud Exner spent one and a half to two years developing and building instrument puppets together with a group of young people for the production Unpredicted Fruit.
Composer Lars Kynde leads a creative workshop where children build a shared monster instrument from quirky sound-making gadgets. A hands-on experience for ages 5-14 with an adult.
Composer Lars Kynde invites children and adults to build a shared monster instrument from curious contraptions in Kulbaneparken.