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, as well as being in charge of creating ambient soundscapes for events such as Nokia World.

Outside of Nokia, he is best known for being part of the house music duo U&K as Uke, along with Kim Kanerva (Kimik). Both of them have also done several DJ sets in Finland.

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/audio 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 producing the Nokia 3220's ringtone set, where he programmed funlights and created 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.

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

 * Bluepaint — Music & Arrangement
 * Corporate Ambient - NokiaWorld2009 — Music & Arrangement
 * Liquify — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Take One; later shortened into a ringtone]
 * Open Sky — Music & Arrangement
 * 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]