Award-winning Julian Skar has a broad background within both pop music and in the contemporary field. For his debut album as a composer he teams up with Ensemble Ernst and pianist Ingrid Andsnes. This album has an expanding dramaturgy, with the first composition being written for solo piano, moving to piano trio in the second, then piano septet in the third and ending with piano and sinfonietta in the fourth. An important feature in Skar's compositional work is his use of the computer. Algorithms provide the composer with answers to musical questions or problems. The musical elements are created when the composer dissects his own musicality in a conflict between intuition and formalization. The interplay between man and machine, improvisation and sheet music amplifies the notion of a battle between chaos and order. The album title also relates to this; rebirth after destruction or exhaustion.