Mads Emil Nielsen

Mads Emil Nielsen is a Danish electronic musician, composer and percussionist based in Copenhagen. He works with basic sound sources set against short percussive and orchestral samples, field recordings and amplified machine errors, drawing on early and recent electroacoustic music. In 2014 he founded the label and platform arbitrary. Nielsen studied composition at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. His solo release PM016 came out on Plant Migration and was later reissued on arbitrary, which also published Percussion Loops and FRAMEWORK, a project of graphic scores and sound.