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rumour — distant land

Materials to­wards a per­form­ance for four people. ru­mour  —  dis­tant land provides a frame­work for a per­form­ance that is as much visual and dra­matic as it is sonic, al­lowing four per­formers to present a series of im­ages and ac­tions, all of which touch around but never upon feel­ings of dis­tance, loss, re­min­is­cence and the mundane.

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Tomorrow I will build a house here, if I can hold still

Wide open, the sweep and curve of gravity draws swerves out of the body. The dust that pat­terns re­mote points ap­pears near: veined boulders, ice­bergs calved into air, sheets of dirty purple glass cor­nering into one an­other. A finger traces through the mist and re­peats, trying to settle at a place of no di­men­sions full […]

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still point

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor flesh­less; Neither from nor to­wards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither ar­rest nor move­ment. And do not call it fixity, Where past and fu­ture are gathered. Neither move­ment from nor to­wards, Neither as­cent nor de­cline. Except for the point, the […]

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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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    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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