In Residence With is a podcast series that delves into the creative processes of sound artists during their residencies at Sound Art Lab in Struer, Denmark. Each episode offers an intimate glimpse into the artists' explorations, experiments, and reflections as they develop new work.

During his stay at Sound Art Lab, composer and sound artist Mads Kjeldgaard created Empty Cloud — a 12-hour generative piece designed to gently dissolve into the background.
In this episode, Mads reflects on how a life-altering concussion left him alone in the dark, with tea as his only sensory anchor — and how that slow, quiet world transformed his relationship to time, music, and attention. Drawing from Zen practice and the poetic ephemerality of tea, Empty Cloud emerged not from ambition, but from surrender to stillness, to slowness, and to the space between notes.

Photo credits: Sofie Amalie Kloudgart 

Produced by Timmy Olivia Thyge Johansen and Louise Tandrup Esbensen / The Lake Radio
Produced for Sound Art Lab
Supported by Statens Kunstfond and Nordisk Kulturfond


#2 In Residence With: Mads Kjeldgaard

The Lake is a place for music and sounds. The radio stream runs all hours of the day and is randomized. No one knows what The Lake plays next.
Every week, talk programs, concert recordings, interviews, mixtapes and more are broadcast and released as podcasts.

The Lake is driven and curated by a group of Copenhagen-based artists and radio producers, with the aid of a long list of kind contributors and collaborators.

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A collection of radio stories, intererviews about music and sound experiments produced by me or in collaboration with others.

Profile art: a relief by my favourite artist Mette Hammer Juhl