Tag Archives: 2012

All the time that you have what we have. / All the time that you have.

This short work is part game piece, part phys­ical per­form­ance, part sound. At the heart of it lies the ques­tion: what hap­pens when we stop breathing? The ex­haus­tion of a phys­ical limit  —  the breath, the bow  —  is de­ployed as a mech­anism con­trolling what we hear and how long we hear it for. The ori­ginal text is in French, […]

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The Incredulity of St Thomas

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other dis­ciples there­fore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and […]

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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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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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  • 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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