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First Workshop with KEMS

My first work­shop with the or­chestra of King Edward Musical Society is on Tuesday  —  11.1.11!  —  and I’m looking for­ward to playing around with some semi-improvised ex­per­i­ments mixing tra­di­tional nota­tion and graph­ical ele­ments that will hope­fully let us create some in­ter­esting co­in­cid­ences and ar­rays of in­ter­acting lines. I will post some­thing about how it goes over on the […]

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I’ve been adopted!

I’m very ex­cited to be able to an­nounce that this year I will be taking part in the Adopt a Composer scheme, funded by the PRS for Music Foundation and run by Sound and Music, in as­so­ci­ation with Making Music. The scheme pairs up com­posers with am­a­teur en­sembles to col­lab­orate on new music and I […]

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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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