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Mikrokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling

For a while now, I have been in­ter­ested in the edges of things: where things start and stop being, where they vanish, where one idea bleeds into an­other. This piece at­tempts to com­bine found sounds and streams of ‘noise’ that we carry with us in the back­ground of our lives  —  ra­dios, pop music, con­ver­sa­tions, re­membered places  —  only […]

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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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  • 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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