Author Archives: Chris

Statement from Sound and Music

In re­sponse to the open letter that was sent to Sound and Music and Arts Council England last month and which gathered 135 sig­nat­ories, we have re­ceived the fol­lowing short state­ment from the Sound and Music Board of Trustees dated 18 May 2012 (which can also be viewed as a PDF): Sound and Music would […]

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Icebloom

Taking ‘Frühlingstraum’ from Schubert’s Winterreise as its starting point, Icebloom is a mini­ature that at­tempts to ad­dress some of the re­la­tion­ships de­tailed in the song’s text. Wilhelm Müller’s poem presents a vign­ette of ab­sence, ima­gin­a­tion and memory, and it is the re­la­tion­ship between ab­sence and pres­ence that is glanced at in Icebloom’s brief mo­ments: lim­inal sounds […]

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Video: Haruka Inoue plays something golden in the night

Video of ‘some­thing golden in the night’ per­formed by Haruka Inoue at IRCAM, 31 March 2012.

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Response to Open Letters to Sound and Music and Arts Council England

A re­sponse to Colin Matthews’s and Nicola Le Fanu’s open letter cri­ti­cising the activ­ities of Sound & Music and Arts Council England. Open to new signatories.

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Schattenspiel at the Scandinavian Saxophone Festival

Performance of Schattenspiel for sop­rano sax­o­phone and elec­tronics given by Joshua Hyde at the Scandinavian Saxophone Festival 2012.

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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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