Author Archives: Chris

Points of Contact: MANTIS Fall Festival 2010

The bi­an­nual MANTIS Festival at the University of Manchester presents fixed media works and works with live elec­tronics, per­forming these over a large sound dif­fu­sion system that com­prises around 40 loud­speakers. The con­certs over the Halloween weekend show­cased the work of stu­dents at the uni­ver­sity, that of in­vited guest com­posers and in­cluded the first collaboration […]

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I’ve been adopted!

I’m very ex­cited to be able to an­nounce that this year I will be taking part in the Adopt a Composer scheme, funded by the PRS for Music Foundation and run by Sound and Music, in as­so­ci­ation with Making Music. The scheme pairs up com­posers with am­a­teur en­sembles to col­lab­orate on new music and I […]

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Gaza Cantos @ Hexham Abbey Festival

Fantastic vi­olist Emma Richards will be per­forming my short piece Gaza Cantos at a lunch­time con­cert on Thursday 30 September as part of Hexham Abbey Festival of Music & Arts. The pro­gramme also in­cludes Robert Schumann’s Märchenbilder, Johannes Brahms’s F minor Sonata and move­ments from a tran­scrip­tion of the first Bach cello suite. Listings: Facebook / […]

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Hear: La leggerezza delle città

La leggerezza delle città, which was premièred two weeks ago at Encuentros Cuenca, is now avail­able over on Bandcamp for streaming and down­load. Below is a photo from be­fore the con­cert in Cuenca in the cloister of art gal­lery and ex-convent, the Fundación Antonio Pérez. The view was spec­tac­ular and as the sounds of the […]

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Quiet Games & Improvisation

I will be performing/appearing/being at A Curious Night at the Nip & Tipple in Whalley Range the evening of Monday 13th September. Put to­gether by com­poser Nina Whiteman and per­form­ance artist Michael Mayhew, it will in­clude an ec­lectic range of per­form­ances, hap­pen­ings and a ‘curious ve­get­able com­pet­i­tion’, spurred on by Nabokov’s sug­ges­tion that ‘curi­osity is […]

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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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