Tag Archives: 2010

La leggerezza delle città

Combining a sonic vocab­u­lary that fuses con­crete sounds of the city with more ab­stract ma­terial, La leggerezza delle città hopes to ex­plore and ex­pose the weight­less clarity of cer­tain acoustic ex­per­i­ences whose rapid in­cisions into the listener’s per­cep­tion leave crisply out­lined yet mul­ti­far­ious and ul­ti­mately in­ef­fable im­pres­sions, en­ga­ging in a dia­logue between the sonic reality […]

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The Golden Lion Hotel

Friedrich Engels lived in Manchester for more than 20 years, during that time re­ceiving many visits from Karl Marx who was living in London. Engels led a double life as both man­ager of his father’s cotton factory and polit­ical rad­ical, and the harsh con­di­tions of workers in Mancunian in­dustry formed a key in­flu­ence on his ideas […]

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Wege & Waldstille

Driven by an urge to find ways of com­bining the quiet, tactile spaces I have been be­coming in­creas­ingly fond of with some­thing more forceful and volatile, Wege & Waldstille in some ways com­bines ideas from various strands of my work from the last couple of years. In trying to frame lim­inal, del­icate sound­worlds with more […]

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This is Water!

This is Water!, for en­semble and tape, takes its name from the book of the same title by David Foster Wallace, sub­titled ‘Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life’ (Little, Brown & co., New York, 2009). Here is the pas­sage, which gives that book its name: There are these two young […]

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…going back to the skies

Some words that I had nearby while writing this piece (cour­tesy of Roger Deakin, C.D. Wright, Seamus Heaney and Friedrich Dürrenmatt): Daydreaming has been my making and my un­doing — like having a light at your back you can’t see but can still feel. ‘Since when,’ he asked, ‘Are the first and last line of any […]

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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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