Author Archives: Chris

Schattenspiel at IRCAM

My newest piece, Schattenspiel [Update, 12/4: now titled some­thing golden in the night] for sop­rano sax­o­phone and elec­tronics, a pre­view of which you can hear above, will be premiered on Saturday 31 March at 4 p.m. by Haruka Inoue (on the right in the pic­ture above) in IRCAM’s Espace de pro­jec­tion. The con­cert will also feature […]

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Where are the women in your local music scene? — Paris Edition

Last year for International Women’s Day, I took a look at the or­ches­tras of Manchester and how women were rep­res­ented in their activ­ities. Since then I have moved to Paris and seeing as I am studying at IRCAM, it seemed apt to in­vest­igate how well fe­male com­posers were rep­res­ented at this institution.

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something golden in the night

some­thing golden in the night rep­res­ents a first at­tempt to trans­form the tra­di­tional con­cert hall con­text through an ab­stract sceno­graphy that be­gins to con­struct a new con­text within the frame­work of a clas­sical con­cert. A sax­o­phonist is ac­com­panied in their per­form­ance by a play of shadows coming from a sculp­ture, the move­ment of which is […]

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June Unfolding on BBC Radio 3

During the in­terval of BBC Radio 3’s live con­cert broad­cast on Friday 2 March, you can hear me talking to King Edward Musical Society chairman Tim Ward about my or­ches­tral work June Unfolding, which they premiered last summer as part of the cel­eb­ra­tions for the 750th an­niversary of the royal charter of Macclesfield. The piece was […]

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La leggerezza delle città in San Francisco

Saturday, 21 January 2012, 20:00 — La leggerezza delle città, San Francisco Tape Music Festival, ODC Theatre, San Francisco CA, 94110, USA.

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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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