Author Archives: Chris

New Site Design

Welcome to a new look web­site. Please glance around and get in touch or leave a com­ment if you see any­thing that looks broken. I am still tinkering with things, so things might change, and there should be sec­tions with audio and video up at some point in the fu­ture. Any other feed­back is also […]

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“The point is to change it”

If we re­main grot­esquely un­equal, we shall lose all sense of fra­ternity: and fra­ternity, for all its fatuity as a polit­ical ob­jective, turns out to be the ne­ces­sary con­di­tion of politics it­self.” I’ve just got round to fin­ishing Tony Judt’s ex­cel­lent essay on the im­port­ance of the state printed in the Guardian Review the weekend […]

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Work in Progress & Upcoming Performances

I am cur­rently working on a new work for cla­rinet, cello, piano and hand­held per­cus­sion to be premiered on Friday 30th April at 17:30 by players from Psappha new music en­semble. Mikrokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling, written last year, will be per­formed by new music en­semble Vaganza on 16th May at the […]

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This is Water!

This is Water!, for en­semble and tape, takes its name from the book of the same title by David Foster Wallace, sub­titled ‘Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life’ (Little, Brown & co., New York, 2009). Here is the pas­sage, which gives that book its name: There are these two young […]

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Raise Your Voice Collective

Over the last few months, along with friends Rob Guy and Steve Pycroft, I’ve been in­volved in set­ting up new music en­semble and com­posers’ col­lective Raise Your Voice. I’m really pleased to be able to an­nounce our launch night will be on 28 February 2010 in Centro Bar, doors opening around 19:30. The night will feature […]

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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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