Category Archives: Performances

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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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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First performance of ‘Tomorrow I will build a house here…’ in Paris

On Thursday, 26 June, flautist Paolo Vignaroli and cel­list Karolina Öhman are giving the first per­form­ance of my Tomorrow I will build a house here, if I can hold still in Paris, France. Come along to Studio Le Regard du Cygne (Google Maps) at 8pm to hear a con­cert of music for flute, cello and elec­tronics that will also include […]

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ELISION in residence at Harvard

This week, ELISION Ensemble will be in res­id­ence at Harvard University, cul­min­ating on Saturday 17 May in a con­cert of new music by graduate com­posers at Harvard that will also in­clude the US première of Richard Barrett’s Lens, for flu­gel­horn and elec­tric lap-steel guitar. Ensembles that un­der­take their work and per­form with the in­teg­rity and in­tensity of ELISION are rare, so it […]

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    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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