Re:member (album)

Re:member is the fourth official solo album by Ólafur Arnalds released in August 2018.[1][2][3] The album contains twelve tracks.[4][5]

This article is about Ólafur Arnalds' album. For other uses, see Re:member.
Re:member
Studio album by
Ólafur Arnalds
ReleasedAugust 2018
Genre
Ólafur Arnalds chronology
For Now I Am Winter
(2013)		 Re:member
(2018)		 Some Kind of Peace
(2020)

The album featured his new musical system called Stratus. The Stratus Pianos are two self-playing, semi-generative player pianos which are triggered by a central piano played by Arnalds. The custom-built software was born out of two years of work by the composer and audio developer, Halldor Eldjarn. As Arnalds plays a note on the piano, two different notes are generated by Stratus, creating unexpected harmonies and surprising melodic sequences.[6]

The algorithms generated from Stratus were also used to create the album artwork. In an interview with Sound of Boston, Arnalds explains that the artist, Torsten Posselt from FELD studios, used the Stratus software as a starting point and made his own software that translated the same MIDI signals used for the music. Each dot corresponds to a piano note in the title track: 88 fields correspond to 88 notes; the thicker the dot, the higher the frequency of that note being played.[7]

He composed the main theme for the Apple + mini series Defending Jacob (miniseries).

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Re:member"6:09
2."Unfold"3:58
3."Saman"2:12
4."Brot"2:54
5."Inconsist"4:32
6."They Sink"2:36
7."Ypsilon"3:55
8."Partial"3:16
9."Momentary"2:05
10."Undir"6:31
11."Ekki Hugsa"4:42
12."Nyepi"4:14

References
  1. Ray Honeybourne (22 August 2018). "Ólafur Arnalds' Re:member is sophisticated, explorative, and humane". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  2. "ÓLAFUR ARNALDS ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM 'RE:MEMBER' WITH GORGEOUS VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE 'UNFOLD' FT SOHN". DIY. 8 June 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  3. Sharon Kelly (8 December 2019). "Ólafur Arnalds 're:member' Deluxe Edition Box Set Out Now". uDiscover. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  4. "Review: Icelandic Composer Ólafur Arnalds's Experiment in Artificial Intelligence 'Re: Member'". Rolling Stone. 24 August 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  5. "Ólafur Arnalds – Re:member". Discogs. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  6. Robin Hilton; Bob Boilen (10 April 2018). "New Mix: Ólafur Arnalds, Khruangbin, Whyte Horses, Ari Roar, More". National Public Radio. Retrieved 3 March 2022. The software, called Stratus, takes his performance on one piano and, in real-time, creates a performance on two other pianos, which he then reacts to. It leads him down musical paths he likely would never have explored.
  7. Bedian, Knar. "Interview: Ólafur Arnalds and Pianos That Go Bleep Bloop". Sound of Boston. Sound of Boston. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
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