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Sketches in Silence

My first work to be per­formed in the UK after ar­riving there to study, Sketches in Silence is an in­tensely quiet ex­per­i­ment in per­form­ance and the re­la­tion­ship between mu­si­cians’ ges­tures and sound. It con­sists of large amounts of si­lence (in­cluding si­lent ges­tures), white noise and very oc­ca­sional flickers of pitched ma­terial. I later wrote more […]

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    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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