Tag Archives: saxophone

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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something golden in the night

some­thing golden in the night rep­res­ents a first at­tempt to trans­form the tra­di­tional con­cert hall con­text through an ab­stract sceno­graphy that be­gins to con­struct a new con­text within the frame­work of a clas­sical con­cert. A sax­o­phonist is ac­com­panied in their per­form­ance by a play of shadows coming from a sculp­ture, the move­ment of which is […]

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Small Atlas

Recently I have been in­ter­ested in car­to­graphy and the im­portant role it plays in how we com­pre­hend the spaces we in­habit. An atlas is a col­lec­tion of maps, often sev­eral maps show the same area but map dif­ferent de­tails and data, each time re­vealing an­other facet of the land’s geo­graphy. Small Atlas lays out a […]

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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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