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Quiet Games & Improvisation

I will be performing/appearing/being at A Curious Night at the Nip & Tipple in Whalley Range the evening of Monday 13th September. Put to­gether by com­poser Nina Whiteman and per­form­ance artist Michael Mayhew, it will in­clude an ec­lectic range of per­form­ances, hap­pen­ings and a ‘curious ve­get­able com­pet­i­tion’, spurred on by Nabokov’s sug­ges­tion that ‘curi­osity is […]

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Some new sounds to listen to

You can now hear re­cord­ings of Tuesday’s per­form­ance by Vaganza of Mikrokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling and Psappha’s premiere of Wege & Waldstille back in April over on my Bandcamp page.

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Video: Psappha Plays Wege & Waldstille

Here’s a video, cour­tesy of Psappha, of my piece Wege & Waldstille, which they premiered with verve and ac­curacy on Friday night. Enjoy it in HD!

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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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Bandcamp!

You can now hear some of my music on­line at my Bandcamp page and I’ll be adding some more re­cord­ings in a few weeks. Bandcamp lets you up­load high-quality audio and offer it for both streaming and down­load in a wide range of formats, so if you like what you hear, help your­self to 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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