Author Archives: Chris

Composer Portrait:
Donal Sarsfield

Recent re­cip­ient of the 1er Prix Luigi Russolo for his work Gallivanting (now re­titled as The Suitcases Piece), Donal Sarsfield is an Irish com­poser cur­rently studying for a PhD in elec­troacoustic music at the University of Manchester on an Irish Arts Council Elizabeth Maconchy Composition Fellowship. His re­cent tape music demon­strates poignancy and hu­mour in […]

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Donal Sarsfield

Small Atlas

Recently I have been in­ter­ested in car­to­graphy and the im­portant role it plays in how we com­pre­hend the spaces we in­habit. An atlas is a col­lec­tion of maps, often sev­eral maps show the same area but map dif­ferent de­tails and data, each time re­vealing an­other facet of the land’s geo­graphy. Small Atlas lays out a […]

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Unfolding musical memory

So, it’s done! I fin­ished the score of June Unfolding for the or­chestra of King Edward Musical Society last week and the parts are being pre­pared for the first re­hearsal on 3 May. I thought I would take a mo­ment to put down some thoughts on the com­pos­i­tion pro­cess and the ideas be­hind the piece, […]

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Announcing Cities of Sound

The col­lective I co-founded, Raise Your Voice, has just an­nounced its latest ven­ture: an ex­hib­i­tion of sound in­stall­a­tions plus live per­form­ance en­titled Cities of Sound as part of FutureEverything Festival 2011. Read more »

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With the weight of a tree at my back

This short, two-movement work came out of an earlier work for solo viola, Gaza Cantos, which was written after the in­va­sion of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Defence Forces in December 2008. The title ref­er­ences Amir Nizar Zuabi’s play I am Yusuf and this is my brother, set be­fore and after ‘al Nakba’ in […]

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  • Microbiography

    Chris Swithinbank is a British-Dutch com­poser who works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds. He is cur­rently a stu­dent at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin.
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