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Cities & Sunsets

Thursday, 3 March 2011

On Sunday, my tape piece from last summer in­spired by the light­ness and quick­ness of aural ex­per­i­ence in urban spaces, La leggerezza delle città, will be played as part of the 15th bi­an­nual Manchester Theatre in Sound (MANTIS) Festival. This edi­tion bears the title ‘Manchester’s Sonic Meta-ontology’ and will ex­plore Manchester’s sounds through a variety […]

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3 Sunsets

Friday, 21 November 2008

3 Sunsets, three mini­atures for solo piano was premiered by Sebastian Grand as part of new music en­semble Vaganza’s day of con­certs cel­eb­rating the 50th birthday of com­poser Kevin Malone at the University of Manchester. It fea­tured along­side George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children, Christopher Rouse’s Surma Ritornelli and sev­eral works by stu­dents from the […]

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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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