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Detached Thought #100

The Night is also a re­li­gious con­cern  –  and even more so  –  when I viewed the Moon and Stars through Herschell’s tele­scope  –  and saw that they were worlds.  –  ” — Lord Byron, from Detached Thoughts, Pisa c. October 1821. These few words, jotted down for no-one other than the au­thor him­self, seem far more tender and thoughtful than any of […]

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Books of Moses

My first tape piece, Books of Moses ap­proaches is­sues of cre­ativity and the col­lective con­scious­ness. I wanted to ex­amine the pro­cess by which sym­bols are as­sim­il­ated and re-used by cul­tures and the piece de­velops opening ma­terial to­wards a new place un­mis­tak­ably rooted in the past. Sound sources in­cluded car­riers of se­mantic data such as books, […]

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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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  • 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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