updated 18 July 2023
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Malin Bång

Swedish composer born 15 July 1974.

Malin Bång was born in Sweden in 1974. She studied composition at the Piteå School of Music (Sweden), the Universität der Künste Berlin, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and at the University of Göteborg. She has also participated in multiple master clases; notably Voix Nouvelles at Royaumont, the Summer Academy at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgard, Germany, the Aleph Ensemble International Forum for Young Composers, and the Darmstadt Summer Course, studying with Brian Ferneyhough, Gérard Grisey, Philippe Manoury, Philippe Capdenat, Chaya Czernowin, Walter Zimmermann, Friedrich Goldmann, Ole Lützow Holm, Pär Lindgren, and Jan Sandström, among others.

Malin Bång is a founding member of and composer-in-residence with the Curious Chamber Players. Her recent projects include scoring the documentary film kudzu /the sixth phase/ (2017), commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, a large orchestra piece composed for the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2018, and Ripost (2015) for the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) on the occasion of a concert celebrating the eightieth birthday of Helmut Lachenmann, as well as a concert-portrait for the Ultraschall Festival in 2014. Her works have been performed by ensembles including CCP, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Nikel, Aleph, Mosaik, SurPlus, Contrechamps, and the Nadar Ensemble.

In 2010, she received the Staubach Honoraria Prize and the Kranichsteiner Stipendienpreis for Turbid Motion at the Darmstadt Festival. In 2012, she was invited to complete a year-long residency in Berlin with the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm.

Malin Bång writes pieces for intrumental ensembles, orchestras, and electronics. As she puts it, her music is “an exploration of movement and energy”. She defines her musical material “according to their amount of friction to create a spectrum of unpredictable and contrasting actions, ranging from the intimate and barely audible to the harsh and obstinate.” She expands the instrumental palette in her scores with a variety of different sound objects, as is the case with hyperoxic (2011), arching (2013), underpassing (2018) or inuti (2023).

She lives and works in Stockholm.


© Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2019

Sources

Site de l’artiste ; BabelScores

  • Solo (excluding voice)
    • …när korpen vitnar for violin or Harding fiddle (2003), 8 mn 30 s, Swedish Music Information Center
    • delta waves for tenor saxophone (2007), 8 mn 30 s, Malin Bång
    • alpha waves for alto flute or flute (2008), 8 mn 30 s, BabelScores
    • elec purfling for amplified violin and electronics in stereo (2012), 10 mn 30 s, Malin Bång
  • Chamber music
    • La Grande Vita dei Fiori for sextet (2005), 7 mn 15 s, Malin Bång
    • Perpetual Revival for sextet (2007), 4 mn 20 s, Swedish Music Information Center
    • elec Sparkling Box for quintet and live electronics (2007), 12 mn, Malin Bång
    • resilience for contrabassoon, tenor saxophone, percussion and alto (2008), 7 mn, Malin Bång
    • gläntor, grenar for percussion trio (2009), 10 mn
    • spine reaction electric guitar quartet (2010), 10 mn, Malin Bång
    • bakom, bortom for cello and percussion (2012), 10 mn 30 s
    • inuti for flute, bass clarinet, guitar, violin/viola, cello and sound objects (2023), 10 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
  • Instrumental ensemble music
    • Ljómi for flute ensemble (2006), 10 mn, Malin Bång
    • Cancíon Esquirla for ensemble and two performers with objects (2007), 6 mn 30 s
    • elec The Curious Collection for ensemble and electronics (2007), 18 mn, Malin Bång
    • elec Fireworks and Silverbirds for dan tranh, dan bau, ten-string guitar and stereo tape (2009), 12 mn, Malin Bång
    • Revival in Relievo for ensemble (2009), 5 mn 30 s, Malin Bång
    • Encrusted for ensemble (2010), 15 mn
    • Epic Abrasion for ensemble (2010), 13 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
    • Turbid Motion for ensemble (2010), 9 mn, Malin Bång
    • hyperoxic for bass flute and various objects (2011), 10 mn 10 s, Malin Bång
    • elec Structures of Molten Light for ensemble (2011), 9 mn, Malin Bång
    • Irimi for ensemble (2012), 15 mn, Malin Bång
    • elec kobushi burui for ensemble of amplified instruments (2012), 17 mn 30 s, Malin Bång
    • elec Sophomore Structures of Molten Light for ensemble (2012), 14 mn, Malin Bång
    • elec arching for amplified cello, various amplified objects and stereo tape (2013), 10 mn 40 s, Malin Bång
    • elec palinode for ensemble (2013), 11 mn, Malin Bång
    • avgår, pågår for orchestra (2014), 10 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
    • elec how long is now for ensemble and electronics (2014), 15 mn, Malin Bång
    • Shin-Shinai for two percussions and string orchestra (2015), 13 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
    • jasmonate for piccolo flute, bass clarinet, percussion/writing pad, inside piano/typewriter, tabletop guitar, violin and cello (2017), 18 mn, Malin Bång
    • kudzu /the sixth phase/ for ensemble (2017), 1 h 4 mn, Svensk Musik
    • splinters of ebullient rebellion for orchestra (2017-2018), 21 mn
    • elec underpassing for three performers (2017-2018), 10 mn 30 s, édition du compositeur
    • elec stage Shinai Hara for string orchestra, solo dancer using shinais, soloistic parts for concert master, 3 cassette tape players operated by Violin 1E (2019), 9 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
    • elec blooming brume for ensemble, 2 cassette tape players, mp3 player with small loudspeaker (2020), 17 mn
  • Concertant music
    • elec Ripost for double bass and amplified percussion and orchestra (2015), 18 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
  • Vocal music and instrument(s)
    • Faces and Moon Splinters for female voice and quintet (2005), 7 mn 20 s, BabelScores
    • skuggor, glänta, dån for mixed choir, three solo voices and percussion trio (2009), 30 mn, Malin Bång
    • elec Shinai for four voices, string orchestra and two percussionists (2015), 15 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
    • Shinai Kiai for 16-voice mixed choir and a percussionist (2018), 10 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
  • A cappella vocal music
  • Electronic music / fixed media / mechanical musical instruments
    • elec split rudder for Paetzold amplified and electronic double bass recorder (2011), 9 mn 30 s, Malin Bång
  • 2023
    • inuti for flute, bass clarinet, guitar, violin/viola, cello and sound objects, 10 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
  • 2020
    • elec blooming brume for ensemble, 2 cassette tape players, mp3 player with small loudspeaker, 17 mn
  • 2019
    • elec stage Shinai Hara for string orchestra, solo dancer using shinais, soloistic parts for concert master, 3 cassette tape players operated by Violin 1E, 9 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
  • 2018
  • 2017
    • jasmonate for piccolo flute, bass clarinet, percussion/writing pad, inside piano/typewriter, tabletop guitar, violin and cello, 18 mn, Malin Bång
    • kudzu /the sixth phase/ for ensemble, 1 h 4 mn, Svensk Musik
  • 2015
    • elec Ripost for double bass and amplified percussion and orchestra, 18 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
    • Shin-Shinai for two percussions and string orchestra, 13 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
    • elec Shinai for four voices, string orchestra and two percussionists, 15 mn, Swedish Music Information Center
  • 2014
  • 2013
    • elec arching for amplified cello, various amplified objects and stereo tape, 10 mn 40 s, Malin Bång
    • elec palinode for ensemble, 11 mn, Malin Bång
  • 2012
  • 2011
    • elec Structures of Molten Light for ensemble, 9 mn, Malin Bång
    • hyperoxic for bass flute and various objects, 10 mn 10 s, Malin Bång
    • elec split rudder for Paetzold amplified and electronic double bass recorder, 9 mn 30 s, Malin Bång
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
    • Ljómi for flute ensemble, 10 mn, Malin Bång
  • 2005
  • 2003

Liens Internet

(liens vérifiés en juillet 2023).

Discographie

  • Malin BÅNG, Avgår, Pågår ; Ripost ; Splinters of Ebullient Rebellion ; Irimi, dans « Works for Orchestra », 1 CD Neos, 2022, NEOS 12211.
  • Malin BÅNG, Structures of Molten Light, Arching, Palinode, Purfling, Jasmonate, Curious Chamber Players, Ume Duo, Karin Hellqvist, violon, dans « Structures of Light and Spruce », 1 CD Neos, 2018, NEOS 11817.