Author Archives: Chris

New recording of Tomorrow I will build a house here…

A re­cording of en­semble mo­saik’s Bettina Junge and Mathis Mayr playing Tomorrow I will build a house here, if I can hold still back in October is now online:

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Tomorrow I will build a house… where?

By some spec­tac­ular fluke of nature  —  or rather the spec­tac­ular ini­ti­ative of some won­derful people — the emer­gent, self-organising con­scious­ness that is Tomorrow I will build a house here, if I can hold still is man­aging to tour Europe this December by hop­ping para­sit­ic­ally between mu­si­cians’ bodies. Try to make one of these per­form­ances: 06.12 | London | Zinajda Kodrič + Myriam Garcia Fidalgo […]

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rumour — distant land in Bludenz

Berlin-based quartet DieOrdnungDerDinge are going to give the first per­form­ance of ru­mour  —  dis­tant land at tonight’s opening event of this year’s Bludenzer Tage zeit­gemäßer Musik. We’ve been hard at work since late on Tuesday and the whole evening should be mem­or­able. (It will also fea­ture vocal per­form­ances from the spec­tac­ular Ute Wassermann.) Thanks go to everyone who has […]

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rumour — distant land

Materials to­wards a per­form­ance for four people. ru­mour  —  dis­tant land provides a frame­work for a per­form­ance that is as much visual and dra­matic as it is sonic, al­lowing four per­formers to present a series of im­ages and ac­tions, all of which touch around but never upon feel­ings of dis­tance, loss, re­min­is­cence and the mundane.

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ensemble mosaik at Harvard

On Saturday, 4 October, Berlin-based en­semble mo­saik are per­forming at Harvard University. The cul­min­a­tion of a weeklong res­id­ency, they are presenting new pieces by Trevor Bača and Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer as well as per­form­ances of some of Sivan Cohen-Elias and Stefan Prins’s most re­cent music. My latest piece, Tomorrow I will build a house here, […]

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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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