Basic information
| Composer |
Bång, Malin |
| Duration |
18 min. |
| Year of composition |
2007 |
| First performance (year) |
2007 |
| First performance (venue) |
Gävle Teater, Sweden |
| First performance (performers) |
Curious Chamber players, Sweden |
| Submitter |
KammarensembleN |
| Publisher |
Contact composer |
| Conductor |
No |
| Soloist(s) |
, |
Instruments
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Musicians |
1st player |
2nd player |
| Violin | 2 | | |
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| Cello | 1 | | |
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| Flute |
1 |
C
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| Clarinet |
1 |
Contrabass
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Musicians |
Instruments |
| Percussion |
1 |
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| Other instruments and playing techniques |
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Equipment |
| Sound electronics |
Other
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| Visuals |
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Notes
| Programme notes |
Can music be closely connected to our everyday life? This was the
challenge I took on with The Curious Collection, which can be viewed as a
musical documentary or short stories involving the performing
musicians. Each musician has chosen an object that is of great personal
importance for her/him. The musicians’ individual reflections and
associations to these objects became the foundation for seven different
sections in the piece. In the electronics you can both hear the objects
and fragment from the stories about them. They are also participating
live as visual symbols and as sound objects. The work is at the same
time a small exhibition, a collection of sound reflections and seven
entwined monologues.
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| Additional notes |
Instrumentation:
flute (also wooden salt container), contrabass clarinet (also mobile
phone), percussion (also book about the composer Gustav Mahler), piano
(also tea tin), violin 1 (also beckoning cat), violin 2 (also metal card
holder case), cello (also electric milk whipper) and live electronics.
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