His work is motivated by the intimate and immediate qualities of acoustic music performance. He aspires to endow novel digital instruments with these same qualities by leveraging high-fidelity force feedback, physical modeling, and other advanced technologies. Berdahl also aims to provide new insights into the constantly evolving forefront of EMDM research. With this goal, he spends half of his time working within LSU’s Cultural Computing group at the Center for Computation and Technology (CCT).