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Mikrokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling

For a while now, I have been in­ter­ested in the edges of things: where things start and stop being, where they vanish, where one idea bleeds into an­other. This piece at­tempts to com­bine found sounds and streams of ‘noise’ that we carry with us in the back­ground of our lives  —  ra­dios, pop music, con­ver­sa­tions, re­membered places  —  only […]

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non vogliono, camminano

ritorno dal nulla [re­turn from noth­ing­ness] danza degli uomini spenti [dance of dead men] come il vento sospinge le foglie secche [like the wind blows dry leaves] non vogliono, cam­minano draws its in­spir­a­tion from a pas­sage in Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo [If this is a man], which de­scribes the music and sound­scape of […]

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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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