Experience Olafur Arnalds QPAC Debut this November

Get set for a very special music concert event as award-winning Icelandic musician, composer, and producer Ólafur Arnalds performs for the first time at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) on Tuesday 27 November 2018.

Those who experienced Arnalds at his sold-out Brisbane Festival performances in 2013 (solo) and with his electronic duo Kiasmos in 2015, will know this will be a concert that is not-to-be missed.

Arnalds is renowned for his markedly unique sound which he produces by mixing strings and piano with loops and edgy beats and fusing electronica, ambient and pop.

He has received critical acclaim for his extensive soundtrack work, including composing the score for ITV's Broadchurch for which he won a 2014 BAFTA for "Best Original Music". Arnalds also contributed to the soundtracks for international acclaimed films including The Hunger Games (2012), and Taken 3(2014).

His new studio album re:member will be released worldwide via Mercury KX on 24 August 2018. In anticipation of the forthcoming record, Arnalds is currently embarking on a worldwide 40-city tour, which commenced with his sold out show at London's Royal Albert Hall, and comes to Australia this November with QPAC the first venue on the national tour.

Arnalds will play songs from re:member and his extensive back catalogue, with his live show set to break all the rules.

"This is my breaking out-of-a-shell album. This is me taking the raw influences that I have from all these different musical genres and not filtering them. It explores the creative process and how one can manipulate that to get out of the circle of expectations and habit," - Ólafur Arnalds.

The highly anticipated LP features the ground-breaking software Stratus which transforms the piano into an almost entirely new instrument.

The Stratus Pianos are two self-playing, semi-generative player pianos which are triggered by a central piano played by Arnalds; these new instruments and custom built software are the centerpiece of re:member. Created over a two-year period by composer and audio developer Halldór Eldjárn, the algorithms generated by Stratus were used to create the LP artwork.

The new music on re:member uses not only Stratus Pianos, but also includes a string quartet, synthesizers, electronics, live drums and a string orchestra recorded at London's Air Studios.

Arnalds' journey has not been the typical path for classical composers - beginning his music career instead as a drummer for various metal bands in his native Iceland.

In 2004, he was asked to write instrumentals for the album of metal band, Heaven Shall Burn. This led to more work in the field of neo-classical strings and piano based music, and ultimately the release of his debut album Eulogy for Evolution in 2007.

Arnalds has become internationally celebrated for his blend of ambient, classical, electronic, pop and rock music. 2016's Island Songs and the improvised LPs Found Songs (2009) and Living Room Music (2011) all involved the daily release of new music over a seven-day period. 2013's For Now I Am Winter was heralded by Bob Boilen of NPR Music and included in his Top 20 Albums of that year. 2010's And They Have Escaped The Weight of Darkness was heralded by Pitchfork* as "a success for the composer, and for listeners that don't balk at a little unabashed pageantry".

Don't miss this one night only concert by award-winning Icelandic artist Ólafur Arnalds at QPAC on Tuesday 27 November 2018. Tickets on sale from 9.00am Friday 3 August 2018. For booking go to qpac.com.au or phone 136 246.

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