Born in 1971 in Karlskrona, he grew up in Stockholm and studied composition and piano for nine years at the Stockholm City Music Institute and at the Music Schools of Malmö and Göteborg. At the same time, he has been working on commissions, composing for films, theatre, dance and installations as well as instrumental, orchestral and prize-winning electroacoustic pieces. He has also studied philosophy and mathematics, and worked as a professional computer programmer. Palle's music has also been used for stress research on newborn babies. Currently he is researching creative algorithms in music and art at Chalmers University of Technology.

Palle's music is regularly performed at concerts, festivals and radio all over the world. In 2000, he was a guest researcher at ATR MIC Labs in Kyoto, Japan, developing an artificial world of coevolving bio-techno creatures.

Currently, Palle is living with his wife and two sons on the island of Brännö, outside the west coast of Sweden.

In 1996 he won a Prix Résidence at the International Electroacoustic Music Competition in Bourges, France, for his electronic piece Gummi.

In 1997 he was one of the winners of the 3rd International Radiophonic Competition (arranged by Radio France, German and Spanish radio etc) with the piece I Lend You My Ear.

In 2001, the computer animation/electroacoustic piece Anakolut won the prestigeous Gaudeamus Composition Prize in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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