Author Archives: Chris

Encuentros Cuenca

I have ar­rived home from a won­derful trip to premiere my tape piece La leggerezza delle città at Encuentros Cuenca. The fest­ival was fant­astic, the dance in par­tic­ular standing out, and the cloister of the Fundación Antonio Pérez with a view across the valley proved a beau­tiful set­ting for the con­cert of elec­troacoustic music, which […]

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Tape Pieces @ Encuentros Cuenca

Two of my tape pieces Para cruzar el sueño and the brand-new La leggerezza delle città will be per­formed on the 4th of September at the Encuentros Cuenca fest­ival in Spain. I’m very grateful to Irma Catalina Álvarez and the rest of the fest­ival or­gan­isers for com­mis­sioning La leggerezza delle città and flying me over […]

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La leggerezza delle città

Combining a sonic vocab­u­lary that fuses con­crete sounds of the city with more ab­stract ma­terial, La leggerezza delle città hopes to ex­plore and ex­pose the weight­less clarity of cer­tain acoustic ex­per­i­ences whose rapid in­cisions into the listener’s per­cep­tion leave crisply out­lined yet mul­ti­far­ious and ul­ti­mately in­ef­fable im­pres­sions, en­ga­ging in a dia­logue between the sonic reality […]

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O, Berlin

Earlier this month I headed to Berlin to check out S.LOW Projekt, an in­ter­dis­cip­linary art pro­ject span­ning the summer months or­gan­ised by my mas­ters su­per­visor Ricardo Climent. While I was there I got to see the latest in­carn­a­tion of Sam Salem and Patrick Sanan’s Pond Life series, ex­hib­ited at Projektraum Schwarz in the gallery-studded area […]

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Go Slow…

I’m going to Berlin for a few days, in­cluding a visit to S.LOW Projekt’s fourth week, which fea­tures the latest in Sam Salem and Patrick Sanan’s Pond Life series of au­di­ovisual in­stall­a­tions as well as talks by a bunch of mu­si­cians, artists and tech­ni­cians. Should be fun…

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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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