In Malin Bång’s music, multifaceted urban atmospheres penetrate through compositional structures in a seamless synergy of traditional instruments and everyday found objects, her works revealing themselves as aural field studies of urban modernity.
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Malin Bång is the founding member of Curious Chamber Players and Faint Noise, active both as composer and performer of acoustic objects.

 

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“I am striving for a balance between the idea of the intimate and fragile and the rough and expressive, in musical actions that often have a strong human, physical connection.“

 

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Her curiosity provides fuel for the most vital element of her music, the generation and sustaining of energy, often through movement and intensified friction.

 

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New CD released

splinters of ebullient rebellion is a portrait CD with five of Malin Bång’s orchestral works, released by NEOS. The works included are avgår, pågår performed by the WDR Orchestra with conductor Ilan Volkov, Ripost with contrabass soloist Uli Fussenegger, percussion soloist Jonny Axelsson and conductor Peter Rundel and the SWR Orchestra, who is also performing splinters of ebullient rebellion led by Pascal Rophé. Included is also the sinfonietta work Irimi, performed by Klangforum Wien with conductor Enno Poppe. All performances are live concert recordings. The CD was proclaimed “the art music cd of the year” by the Swedish Radio review panel: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/malin-bang-har-gjort-arets-konstmusik

Ongoing works

A new longer work for Norwegian ensemble Cikada, premiere in 2025.

A new work for trio Pony Says, premiere in 2025.

A new work for guitar and orchestra featuring soloist Frederik Munk Larsen in collaboration with the orchestras SWR Orchester, Odense Symphony Orchestra, and ERSO in Tallinn, premieres in 2026.

A new longer work for Ensemble Ascolta with premiere in 2027.

A new semistaged work in collaboration with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, premiere TBA.

Concert season 24/25

This season includes two portrait concerts of Malin Bång’s chamber music performed by Curious Chamber Players; at Festival Contrasti, in Trento in August and at Göthe Institut in Tokyo in December. Hosted by Cabinet of Curiosities there is also a concert presentation of Jasmonate. Norwegian Ensemble Temporum is on tour in October and performs the piano trio kaolin in Göteborg, København, Leeds, at Sound Festival in Aberdeen and at Nordic Music Days in Glasgow. Malin Bång has an ongoing collaboration with Ensemble Recherche, who will perform her ensemble works faces and moon splinters and inuti at festivals Musica Nova in Helsinki, Acht Brücken in Köln and Ultraschall in Berlin in January. Ultraschall is also where the world premiere of the new work for trio Pony Says will take place.