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The Golden Lion Hotel @ Raise Your Voice

My per­cus­sion and elec­tronics piece, The Golden Lion Hotel, premiered at the end of April is being re­prised by Steve Pycroft and my­self at the Raise Your Voice Collective’s FutureEverything Showcase ap­pear­ance on Friday 14 May 2010. The pro­gramme also in­cludes a whole host of other Manchester-based com­posers. Listings: Facebook / Last.fm / Official page […]

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Weekly Roundup

The Quatuor Danel were back in Manchester last week with two com­posers, Henry Fourès and Catherine Seba, in tow. Their two con­certs in­cluded Bruno Mantovani’s piano quintet, Blue girl with red wagon (with Richard Whalley on piano), Seba’s string quartet with tape, Quivering, Fourès playing Luc Ferrari’s À la recherche du rhythme perdu, for solo […]

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Raise Your Voice Line-Up Announced

Raise Your Voice Collective, which I help run, have just an­nounced the line-up for their second outing of con­tem­porary clas­sical, ex­per­i­mental elec­tronics and chilled-out beats at Centro Bar in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. It’s an ex­citing mix, stretching from Martin Suckling’s Passacaglie for cello and elec­tronics ori­gin­ally written to make use of the Hyperbow de­veloped at […]

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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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