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All that is solid melts into air

All fixed, fast-frozen re­la­tions, with their train of an­cient and ven­er­able pre­ju­dices and opin­ions, are swept away, all new-formed ones be­come an­ti­quated be­fore they can os­sify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is pro­faned, and man is at last com­pelled to face with sober senses his real con­di­tions of life, […]

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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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The Golden Lion Hotel

Friedrich Engels lived in Manchester for more than 20 years, during that time re­ceiving many visits from Karl Marx who was living in London. Engels led a double life as both man­ager of his father’s cotton factory and polit­ical rad­ical, and the harsh con­di­tions of workers in Mancunian in­dustry formed a key in­flu­ence on his ideas […]

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Wege & Waldstille

Driven by an urge to find ways of com­bining the quiet, tactile spaces I have been be­coming in­creas­ingly fond of with some­thing more forceful and volatile, Wege & Waldstille in some ways com­bines ideas from various strands of my work from the last couple of years. In trying to frame lim­inal, del­icate sound­worlds with more […]

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This is Water!

This is Water!, for en­semble and tape, takes its name from the book of the same title by David Foster Wallace, sub­titled ‘Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life’ (Little, Brown & co., New York, 2009). Here is the pas­sage, which gives that book its name: There are these two young […]

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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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