Tue Sander

Machines

The current obsession.

Klup answers one question: what does it cost used? Search a product, see what it has actually sold for, and compare listings across five marketplaces.
[2026-now]
Project
Klup
Discipline
Founder, full stack
Role
Deal intelligence for the secondhand music gear market. Knowledge graph, multi-market scraping, price intelligence
Prompt Search at Upright Music. A plain-language brief goes in, semantic tags come out, the catalogue answers.
[2022-now]
Project
Upright Music
Discipline
Product and engineering leadership
Role
Head of Product & Engineering. Built the function from scratch, led distributed teams across five countries
Shipped
LLM-powered Prompt Search. Stem matching on audio embeddings. A fine-tuned CLAP scoring voice presence across three million tracks. And an ingestion pipeline with no model in it at all, because a model would have been worse
Moodagent. The sliders were the product: you set a mood and the catalogue answered.
[2019-2022]
Project
Moodagent
Product
Mood sliders as the user-facing control: sensual, tender, happy, angry, tempo
Discipline
AI and product, research collaboration
Role
Industry-side contributor to closed-loop recommender research with the University of Glasgow
Scale
70 million tracks reindexed daily, Spark and TensorFlow, seven countries
[2018-now]
Project
Panter Media
Discipline
Independent studio
Role
Audio production, composition and post-production. Now also process and AI clarity, rapid proof of concept, and ongoing development
[2016]
Project
Instrument of Dice, NIME
Discipline
HCI research
Method
Fiducial tracking, mapped to Ableton
Note
Deliberate ambiguity between intent and system
Human MPC at Den Rytmiske Højskole. A student steps in front of the Kinect, it finds their skeleton, and their movements play the samples. Sound on.
[2016]
Project
Human MPC
Discipline
HCI research, Aalborg University Copenhagen
Method
Kinect skeleton tracking, mapped to samples and effects in MAX/MSP and Ableton
Reach
Toured. Workshops taught at Den Rytmiske Højskole