JAN BANG
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Jazz Related Electronica, Hip-Hop, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Jazz Related Soundtracks, Jazz Related Rock • Norway

Jan Bang is a Norwegian musician and record producer, known from several albums and collaborations over many years with musicians like Sidsel Endresen, Jon Hassell, Tigran Hamasyan, Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset, Arve Henriksen and Erik Honoré - the latter of  which he co-founded the Punkt festival with in 2005. He is one of Norway’s most accomplished and influential producers and the epithet electronic mastermind has stayed with him for a long time and with good reason. Bang is the kind of musical innovator and bridge-builder who consistently manages to balance progressive thinking with popular appeal. He is always looking for ways of moving music and people forward, and by creating new meeting places and musical intersections. Bang is a professor of electronic music at the University of Agder, Norway. from https://janbang.org/