Tag Archives: audio

Hear: La leggerezza delle città

La leggerezza delle città, which was premièred two weeks ago at Encuentros Cuenca, is now avail­able over on Bandcamp for streaming and down­load. Below is a photo from be­fore the con­cert in Cuenca in the cloister of art gal­lery and ex-convent, the Fundación Antonio Pérez. The view was spec­tac­ular and as the sounds of the […]

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Sing Joyfully

I made this re­cording of birds in my garden at dawn on 22 April 2010. It was part of a whole heap of field re­cord­ings that I am only just sifting through. I’m afraid I can’t tell you what type of bird it is; I only ever spot black­birds, mag­pies and, more re­cently, the occasional […]

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Some new sounds to listen to

You can now hear re­cord­ings of Tuesday’s per­form­ance by Vaganza of Mikrokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling and Psappha’s premiere of Wege & Waldstille back in April over on my Bandcamp page.

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Bandcamp!

You can now hear some of my music on­line at my Bandcamp page and I’ll be adding some more re­cord­ings in a few weeks. Bandcamp lets you up­load high-quality audio and offer it for both streaming and down­load in a wide range of formats, so if you like what you hear, help your­self to a […]

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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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  • 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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