Hannu af Ursin

Hannu af Ursin is a composer and music producer who worked for Nokia (later Microsoft Mobile) between 2002 and 2015, creating many ringtones, alerts and UI sounds. He was responsible for over half of the audio remixes of ringtones that were originally MIDIs.

Outside of Nokia, he is best known for being part of the house music duo U&K, along with Kim Kanerva. He has also released some ambient music under the Uke alias.

Work at Nokia
Af Ursin joined Nokia in November 2002, alongside Aleksi Eeben and Henry Daw, as Nokia needed a new sound team to write more polyphonic ringtones and alerts. He felt that writing polyphonic ringtones impacted his creativity, as he had to push the limits and experiment with stuff like pitch bend. One of his first projects was the Nokia 3220's ringtones, programming the funlights and creating its infamous version of the Espionage ringtone. During 2005 he created several audio arrangements of polyphonic ringtones, most of which were not his original compositions. This project was his idea; it was easy to convince the management to go through with it, as it was cost efficient.

He has also designed soundscapes and ambient music for events such as Nokia World 2009 and Nokia's media wall at Shanghai World Expo 2010, as well as music tracks for various other purposes. One of his most noteworthy contributions is creating the Lumia-era default clock alerts with Henry Daw. He also provided input on Nokia's other brand sound updates.

Credits
This is a list of known Nokia tracks af Ursin has worked on.

Ringtones

 * Aerialist — Music & Arrangement
 * Affection (audio remix) — Music & Arrangement
 * Affection — Music & Arrangement
 * Afternoon (audio remix) — Arrangement [NOTE: Original MIDI version was unused; unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * Afternoon — Music [NOTE: Unrelated to the earlier ringtone of the same name]
 * Aires (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Airy (audio remix) — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Airy — Music & Arrangement
 * Astir — Music & Arrangement
 * Bicycle — Recording [NOTE: Unrelated to the earlier ringtone of the same name]
 * Black Hole — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Blackbird — Music & Arrangement, Piano
 * Blank — Music & Arrangement
 * Blue pause — Music & Arrangement
 * Blue smoke — Music & Arrangement
 * Bonus — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Winning]
 * Bouganville (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Bowl — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Spectros]
 * Brache — Music & Arrangement
 * Breakage — Music & Arrangement
 * Breeze — Recording (with Aleksi Eeben)
 * Brook (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Budgerigar — Music & Arrangement
 * Canvas — Music & Arrangement
 * Catwalk — Music & Arrangement
 * Cavalier — Music & Arrangement
 * Chiauwow — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused]
 * Chipper — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * Cinematik — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused]
 * Circle — Music & Arrangement
 * Clerk — Music & Arrangement
 * Clouds — Music
 * Coalesce (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Contours — Music & Arrangement
 * Coral Reef — Music & Arrangement
 * Crossroad — Music
 * Cubicle — Music & Arrangement
 * Dawn — Music [NOTE: Unrelated to the earlier ringtone of the same name]
 * Dawning — Music & Arrangement
 * Daydream — Music & Arrangement
 * Deal — Music & Arrangement
 * Desire — Music & Arrangement
 * Dewdrop — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Whales; unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * Digital thump — Music & Arrangement
 * Dim — Music & Arrangement
 * Diplex — Music & Arrangement
 * Disco-charge — Music & Arrangement
 * Discovery — Music & Arrangement
 * Distraction — Music & Arrangement
 * Downward — Music & Arrangement
 * Drill — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the earlier ringtone of the same name; unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Droplet — Music & Arrangement
 * Dub — Music & Arrangement
 * Dublee — Music & Arrangement
 * Dusk — Music & Arrangement
 * Earl's Torch — Music
 * Electric — Music & Arrangement
 * Eozon — Music & Arrangement
 * Escape — Music & Arrangement
 * Espionage (Nokia 3220 remix) — Arrangement
 * Espionage (unused audio remix) — Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Eternal — Music & Arrangement
 * Fantasia — Music & Arrangement
 * Fast track — Music & Arrangement
 * Fast-flying (audio remix) — Music & Arrangement
 * Fast-flying — Music & Arrangement
 * Feelings (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Fixate — Music & Arrangement
 * Float — Music & Arrangement
 * Flotilla — Music & Arrangement
 * Flow (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Flute funk — Music & Arrangement
 * Flux — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Flying — Music & Arrangement
 * Foliage — Music & Arrangement
 * Free Ooze — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Friendship — Music & Arrangement
 * Fuse — Music & Arrangement
 * Gadabout — Music & Arrangement
 * Garden — Music & Arrangement
 * Glacier — Music & Arrangement
 * Glider — Music & Arrangement
 * Glow — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * Gossip (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Gradient — Music & Arrangement
 * Gradual — Music & Arrangement
 * Grasp (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Halokinesis — Music & Arrangement
 * Hunted — Music & Arrangement
 * Hushed — Music & Arrangement
 * Ice tone — Music & Arrangement
 * Ice — Music & Arrangement
 * Instant replay — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Iron — Music & Arrangement
 * Island (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Jazzy piano (audio remix) — Arrangement, Coughing
 * Just for Kids — Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Keys — Music & Arrangement
 * Kids ringtone — Music & Arrangement
 * Launch — Music & Arrangement
 * Lift Off — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Lime tree — Music & Arrangement
 * Liquify — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: A shortened version of the music track of the same name]
 * Little Shoes — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Feng shoes]
 * Lounging (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Lucid dreaming — Music & Arrangement
 * Lucky Five — Music & Arrangement
 * Luminance — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Gen]
 * Lush — Music & Arrangement
 * Macro — Music & Arrangement
 * Mars (audio remix) — Music & Arrangement
 * Mars — Music & Arrangement
 * Mercurial beat — Music & Arrangement
 * Mercurial — Music & Arrangement
 * Metro — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Milieu — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Mingle — Music & Arrangement
 * Miniature of Pond — Music [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Miniature of Troy — Music
 * Miracle — Music & Arrangement
 * Mirror image — Music & Arrangement
 * Misty — Music & Arrangement
 * Moanday — Music [NOTE: Jazz arranged version of Mystique]
 * Momentum (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Motorway — Editing (possibly also recording)
 * Myriads of stars — Music & Arrangement
 * Mystique (audio remix) — Music & Arrangement
 * Mystique — Music & Arrangement
 * Neuron pulse — Music & Arrangement
 * Nineties — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Nokia Pure Redux — Arrangement
 * N-Gage Tune — Music & Arrangement
 * Oceanic — Music & Arrangement
 * Old times (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Optimus — Arrangement
 * Orchid — Music & Arrangement
 * Pattern — Music & Arrangement
 * Peal — Music & Arrangement
 * Pebble — Music & Arrangement
 * Pedal — Music & Arrangement
 * Plastic — Music & Arrangement
 * Pliable — Music & Arrangement
 * Ploptic — Music & Arrangement
 * Prism — Music & Arrangement
 * Proximity — Music & Arrangement
 * Quadratic — Music & Arrangement
 * Re-groove — Music & Arrangement
 * Reactive — Music & Arrangement
 * Repetition — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Reptilian (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Retrace — Music & Arrangement
 * Retropolis (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Retroverse (audio remix) — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Retroverse — Music & Arrangement
 * Robo IO — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Roboioioi]
 * Route — Music & Arrangement
 * Rove — Music & Arrangement
 * Safari (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Sans Comic — Arrangement [NOTE: Unused]
 * Sapphire — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused; unrelated to the other two ringtones of the same name]
 * Scooped — Music & Arrangement
 * Seahorse (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Shades — Music & Arrangement
 * Shadow — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Shine — Music & Arrangement
 * Shuttle — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Silkscreen — Music & Arrangement
 * Sinesong — Music & Arrangement
 * Sky-blue blimp — Music & Arrangement
 * Sky-high — Music & Arrangement
 * Skyward — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Known on one phone as Blank]
 * Smokey Landscape — Music [NOTE: Unused]
 * Snapdragon — Music & Arrangement
 * Snowfight (audio remix) — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Snowfight — Music & Arrangement
 * Sparkles (audio remix) — Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Stinger — Music & Arrangement
 * Subhop (audio remix) — Music & Arrangement
 * Subhop — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused]
 * Sun fun — Music & Arrangement
 * Sundown — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: An extended version appears as a music track]
 * Sweet jamming — Music & Arrangement
 * Tablet — Music & Arrangement
 * Temple (audio remix) — Music & Arrangement
 * Temple — Music & Arrangement
 * The aristocrat — Music & Arrangement
 * Thrilling (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Tiptoe — Music & Arrangement
 * Trade (audio remix) — Arrangement
 * Trails — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Breeze; unrelated to the later ringtone of the same name]
 * Tranzform — Music & Arrangement
 * Triple rainbow — Music & Arrangement
 * Tropicasia — Music & Arrangement
 * Trout — Music & Arrangement
 * Unia — Music & Arrangement
 * United — Music & Arrangement
 * Univere — Music & Arrangement
 * Universe — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the clock alert of the same name]
 * Venture — Music & Arrangement
 * Voices — Music & Arrangement
 * Voyage — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Wah wah — Music & Arrangement
 * Warm — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Weave — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Worldly (audio remix) — Arrangement

Clock alerts

 * Airy — Music & Arrangement
 * Arctic clock alert — Music & Arrangement
 * Brand — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Ahead of Time]
 * Clock 1 (2011) — Music & Arrangement
 * Clock 1 (2013) — Music & Arrangement (with Henry Daw)
 * Clock 1 (2014) — Music & Arrangement
 * Clock alert 1 (Nokia 7390) — Music & Arrangement
 * Clock alert 2 (Nokia 6650 fold) — Music & Arrangement
 * Clock alert 2 (Nokia N82) — Music & Arrangement
 * Clock alert 3 (Nokia 6270) — Music & Arrangement
 * Clock alert 3 (Nokia N79) — Music & Arrangement
 * Clock Alarm 03 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused]
 * Explore — Music & Arrangement
 * Radar — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones; unrelated to both the ringtone and earlier clock alert of the same name]
 * Shapes — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unused outside of Nokia Tones]
 * Space Port — Music & Arrangement
 * Universe — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Unrelated to the ringtone of the same name]

Calendar and message alerts

 * Digital Friend — Music & Arrangement
 * Effect 01 — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as 3D Effect 01]
 * Electro — Music & Arrangement
 * Email alert 3 (Nokia E60) — Arrangement
 * Kids message — Arrangement
 * Message 3 (Nokia 6111) — Music & Arrangement
 * Message 6 (Nokia E5-00) — Music & Arrangement
 * Thursday — Music & Arrangement

Music tracks

 * Corporate Ambient - NokiaWorld2009 — Music & Arrangement
 * Liquify — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Take One; later shortened into a ringtone]
 * Poughkeepsie — Music (with Ben Lord) & Arrangement (with Ben Lord)
 * Range Royce — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Intended as tutorial music for the Nokia N900, but seems to have been unused]
 * Seam — Music & Arrangement
 * Seasons Greetings — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Created for an internal e-card; unrelated to the ringtone of the same name]
 * Sundown — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Previously appeared as a ringtone]