Tag Archives: 2011

Small Atlas

Recently I have been in­ter­ested in car­to­graphy and the im­portant role it plays in how we com­pre­hend the spaces we in­habit. An atlas is a col­lec­tion of maps, often sev­eral maps show the same area but map dif­ferent de­tails and data, each time re­vealing an­other facet of the land’s geo­graphy. Small Atlas lays out a […]

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With the weight of a tree at my back

This short, two-movement work came out of an earlier work for solo viola, Gaza Cantos, which was written after the in­va­sion of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Defence Forces in December 2008. The title ref­er­ences Amir Nizar Zuabi’s play I am Yusuf and this is my brother, set be­fore and after ‘al Nakba’ in […]

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June Unfolding

June Unfolding was written for a con­cert marking the 750th Anniversary of Macclesfield’s Royal Charter given by King Edward Musical Society in June 2011. Faced with the length of time in ques­tion  —  an un­ima­gin­able dur­a­tion, the change during which is dif­fi­cult to fathom  —  it was a chal­lenge to re­spond in a mean­ingful way. As time passes we […]

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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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