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Video: Haruka Inoue plays something golden in the night

Video of ‘some­thing golden in the night’ per­formed by Haruka Inoue at IRCAM, 31 March 2012.

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Schattenspiel at IRCAM

My newest piece, Schattenspiel [Update, 12/4: now titled some­thing golden in the night] for sop­rano sax­o­phone and elec­tronics, a pre­view of which you can hear above, will be premiered on Saturday 31 March at 4 p.m. by Haruka Inoue (on the right in the pic­ture above) in IRCAM’s Espace de pro­jec­tion. The con­cert will also feature […]

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Cursus 1 at IRCAM

As of today, I am studying on ‘Cursus 1’ at IRCAM in Paris. Over the next seven months, I will be fol­lowing the cur­riculum cov­ering all as­pects of com­pos­i­tion in­volving com­puters, cul­min­ating next spring in the cre­ation of a new work for solo in­stru­ment and elec­tronics. I am grateful for the sup­port of an Entente […]

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Curios in Metz

In the last week I made a couple of trips from Luxembourg to Metz to hear some of the con­certs at this year’s Centre Acanthes and check out the newly opened Centre Pompidou-Metz. Metz is clearly in a period of flux, re­ju­ven­ating it­self with art, cul­ture and ar­chi­tec­ture, which in all hon­esty out­shine 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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