Author Archives: Chris

Books of Moses @ NOVARS Research Centre

A new tape piece, Books of Moses was com­posed at the University of Manchester’s NOVARS Research Centre for Electroacoustic Composition, Performance and Sound-Art. It is my first work for which I have un­der­taken a ded­ic­ated re­cording ses­sion from which all of the sound-material was drawn and it deals with is­sues of cre­ation and re-creation, methods […]

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non vogliono, camminano

ritorno dal nulla [re­turn from noth­ing­ness] danza degli uomini spenti [dance of dead men] come il vento sospinge le foglie secche [like the wind blows dry leaves] non vogliono, cam­minano draws its in­spir­a­tion from a pas­sage in Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo [If this is a man], which de­scribes the music and sound­scape of […]

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non vogliono, camminano

non vogliono, cam­minano is an in­stru­mental work for en­semble drawing its in­spir­a­tion from a pas­sage found in Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo. It was premiered as part of the University of Manchester’s Student Showcase of new works on May 12th at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Manchester. Programme Notes & […]

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Bodies

Two things  —  a thou­sand things  —  meet face to face; two planets, the air on either side of a door, Leda and the Swan, Hemlock and Socrates, two hands, a river and the sea. Their or­bits and col­li­sions are his­tory and life, the brushing and breaking of edges. Bodies, for oboe and piano, is about these meet­ings and […]

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Bodies

Two things  —  a thou­sand things  —  meet face to face; two planets, the air on either side of a door, Leda and the Swan, Hemlock and Socrates, two hands, a river and the sea. Their or­bits and col­li­sions are his­tory and life, the brushing and breaking of edges. Bodies, a new work for oboe and piano, is about […]

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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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