July 19, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- It’s as if the pianos were haunted. Somewhere about midway through this Tiny Desk, as Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds performed on his electronic keyboard, two upright pianos were playing lilting melodies behind him, absent any performer at the keys. And yet these “ghosts,“ along with Ólafur’s band of strings and percussion, put together some of the most beautiful music I’ve heard at the Tiny Desk, made all the more mysterious through its presentation.
About ten minutes into the performance Ólafur looked behind him at the two pianos, looked to the NPR crowd and said, “well I guess you’re all wondering ’what and why,’ to which there’s no easy answer.“ He hit the keys on his electronic keyboard and the two pianos behind responded with cascading, raindrop-like notes. “What I can say,“ he continued, “is that I’ve spent two years and all of my money on this — to make my pianos go bleep-bloop.“ What Ólafur was referring to is software that he and his coder friend, Halldór Eldjárn de
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