Category Archives: Odds & Ends

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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Darmstadt 2014

Summer is drawing to a close and I’m flying back to the USA. Before it ends, here we are in Darmstadt, work­shop­ping ideas for a new work, ru­mour  —  dis­tant land, with Gwen Rouger, Franco Venturini and Simon Steen-Andersen. Experiments with the mu­si­cians of soundini­ti­ative will in­form the use of cas­sette players in my work being premiered by DieOrdnungDerDinge in November at the […]

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Bruno Mantovani on female conductors

The ques­tion of gender in­equity in clas­sical music is hardly a new one and just a few days ago, Alex Ross posted in the New Yorker in­cluding some more re­cent up­set­ting com­ments from Russian con­ductors about their fe­male coun­ter­parts. Meanwhile in the fran­co­phone world, there has been heated de­bate about re­marks made this week by […]

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Things 2012

A se­lec­tion of things from the last twelve months that I have en­joyed and would like to share. Have a happy 2013!

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A more readable version of the discussion around Johannes Kreidler’s protest at Donaueschingen

A formatted PDF of re­cent dis­cus­sion on Facebook around Johannes Kreidler’s protest at the Donaueschingen Festival in October 2012 as posted by Ian Pace.

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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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