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by sdcooke 2704 days ago
Ólafur Arnalds is another one to check out!
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He is my favorite New Classical artist. His actually hired a programmer to control two pianos and has a custom made randomizer. As a Hacker Olafur is the most interesting artist right now.

Interesting Read: https://grapevine.is/culture/music/iceland-airwaves/airwaves...

+1 for Olafur

Another artist who has used a specially-crafted MIDI-controlled piano is Dan Deacon. His stuff is not exactly New Classical, though, it's a bit more frenetic and goofy, but quite good.

He talks about it quite in a bit in a Pitchfork TV video that documented him working on one of his albums, Bromst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPg4Vcr56F0