Klaus Nielsen

Klaus Nielsen is a Danish musician, producer, and sound artist based in Copenhagen. Since 2020 he has been working in electronic music under the name Maple Pools. The genre is a mix of ambient and electronica, employing samplers and analogue synthesizers to achieve an organic feel.

Nielsen started deejaying in the early 90s and has explored a variety of musical avenues including several years as a keyboard player in the art rock band Mew. Always on the lookout for new sounds, Nielsen has for the past 10 years been designing and building his own modular synthesizer from scratch, using recycled parts salvaged from discarded electronics.

In parallel, Nielsen works as a sound artist and has produced two data sonification projects in collaboration with ESA (European Space Agency) and DTU Space. The latest, “Sounds of Earth’s Magnetic Field,” is an artistic representation of our planet’s magnetic field and how it has fluctuated over the last 100,000 years.

Photo: © Eduardo Lima Simões da Silva