Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds performs two shows at the Commodore Ballroom tonight at 7 and 10:30 p.m. The early show is sold out. The multi-instrumentalist composer has learned all about “the Baroques, the Romantics and the Contemporaries” and filters them through his own exploratory sensibility marrying old and new sounds. The Chopin Project with Alice Sara Ott, from 2015, is a personal favourite.
Arnalds’ latest album, re:member, uses Stratus Pianos that he developed with Halldór Eldjárn. Audio on the two self-playing, semi-generative player pianos is triggered through the chords and notes he plays on a third piano.
For more information on tonight’s shows at the Commodore visit commodoreballroom.com/view-all/2019/1/28/olafur-arnaulds.
