Author Archives: Chris

All the time that you have in Venice

Unfortunately, I’m not get­ting any time at all in Venice, but this Sunday, 6 October, my All the time that you have what we have. / All the time that you have. will be part of a con­cert at the Biennale di Venezia cur­ated by Italian blogger-composer col­lective /nu/thing. The per­formers are sop­rano Laura Catrani […]

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Colloquium Presentation at Harvard

I have re­cently joined the PhD pro­gramme at Harvard University to study with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku, which is going to take up a sub­stan­tial chunk of my life for the next six or so years. Throughout the year the Harvard Group for New Music or­gan­ises a series of present­a­tions by cur­rent stu­dents, plus oc­ca­sional guests, […]

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Icebloom première in New York

On Thursday, 12 September, the New York-based string trio Longleash are ap­pearing at Opera America with a pro­gramme that will in­clude the première of my Icebloom along­side works by Haydn, Schubert, Reiko Füting, Younghi Pagh-Paan and Beat Furrer. Maybe see you there! Below you can hear them in the Allegro mod­erato from Haydn’s Trio in E […]

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still point at Wigmore Hall

On Wednesday, 4 September, the Orfea Duo — Mea Wade (oboe) & Olivia Jageurs (harp)  —  will present a curious pro­gramme at London’s Wigmore Hall built around Heinz Holliger’s 1962 open-form work Mobile. This mod­ular and re­con­fig­ur­able work comes in 12 bits and it will be presented in­ter­mingled with 12 new matching mini­atures, in­cluding my (tiny) still point. The concert […]

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still point

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor flesh­less; Neither from nor to­wards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither ar­rest nor move­ment. And do not call it fixity, Where past and fu­ture are gathered. Neither move­ment from nor to­wards, Neither as­cent nor de­cline. Except for the point, 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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