Tag Archives: Ricardo Climent

Points of Contact: MANTIS Fall Festival 2010

The bi­an­nual MANTIS Festival at the University of Manchester presents fixed media works and works with live elec­tronics, per­forming these over a large sound dif­fu­sion system that com­prises around 40 loud­speakers. The con­certs over the Halloween weekend show­cased the work of stu­dents at the uni­ver­sity, that of in­vited guest com­posers and in­cluded the first collaboration […]

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Encuentros Cuenca

I have ar­rived home from a won­derful trip to premiere my tape piece La leggerezza delle città at Encuentros Cuenca. The fest­ival was fant­astic, the dance in par­tic­ular standing out, and the cloister of the Fundación Antonio Pérez with a view across the valley proved a beau­tiful set­ting for the con­cert of elec­troacoustic music, which […]

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Tape Pieces @ Encuentros Cuenca

Two of my tape pieces Para cruzar el sueño and the brand-new La leggerezza delle città will be per­formed on the 4th of September at the Encuentros Cuenca fest­ival in Spain. I’m very grateful to Irma Catalina Álvarez and the rest of the fest­ival or­gan­isers for com­mis­sioning La leggerezza delle città and flying me over […]

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O, Berlin

Earlier this month I headed to Berlin to check out S.LOW Projekt, an in­ter­dis­cip­linary art pro­ject span­ning the summer months or­gan­ised by my mas­ters su­per­visor Ricardo Climent. While I was there I got to see the latest in­carn­a­tion of Sam Salem and Patrick Sanan’s Pond Life series, ex­hib­ited at Projektraum Schwarz in the gallery-studded area […]

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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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