Author Archives: Chris

Cities & Sunsets

On Sunday, my tape piece from last summer in­spired by the light­ness and quick­ness of aural ex­per­i­ence in urban spaces, La leggerezza delle città, will be played as part of the 15th bi­an­nual Manchester Theatre in Sound (MANTIS) Festival. This edi­tion bears the title ‘Manchester’s Sonic Meta-ontology’ and will ex­plore Manchester’s sounds through a variety […]

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Unterwegs

I’m off to Graz, Austria, for 12 days to at­tend the Impuls Akademie. While there I’ll be having les­sons with Pierluigi Billone, Rebecca Saunders and Beat Furrer. Pascal Dusapin, Brice Pauset and Georg Friedrich Haas are also on the staff. Klangforum Wien are in res­id­ence. As are en­semble in­ter­face and a whole bunch of starry names […]

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Revolution/Reformation

A Talk About Helmut Lachenmann’s Gran Torso For those of you in Manchester, I am giving a talk with the won­derful Quatuor Danel this Thursday on Lachenmann’s first string quartet, Gran Torso. The talk runs from 14:30 to 16:00 at the University of Manchester (map), but is pre­ceded at 13:10 by a free lunch­time concert […]

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Musical squiggles and tumbling sounds

Before Christmas I got to hear my ad­optive or­chestra from King Edward Musical Society in full flow at their con­cert of Elgar and Duruflé, so it was with ex­cite­ment that I pre­pared to kick off the New Year with my first work­shop with the or­chestra. The or­chestra are busy pre­paring some tricky Bruckner and Strauss […]

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First Workshop with KEMS

My first work­shop with the or­chestra of King Edward Musical Society is on Tuesday  —  11.1.11!  —  and I’m looking for­ward to playing around with some semi-improvised ex­per­i­ments mixing tra­di­tional nota­tion and graph­ical ele­ments that will hope­fully let us create some in­ter­esting co­in­cid­ences and ar­rays of in­ter­acting lines. I will post some­thing about how it goes over on the […]

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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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