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La leggerezza delle città

Sunday, 29 August 2010

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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Para cruzar el sueño

Sunday, 21 February 2010

The nature of human per­cep­tion is fas­cin­at­ingly un­clear. That so much of what we ex­per­i­ence we ex­per­i­ence al­most un­know­ingly, taking in the tex­tures of the world without clearly per­ceiving their con­struc­tion from thou­sands of tiny strands is es­sen­tial to the ap­parent in­ef­fability of our sur­round­ings. The heightened am­bi­gu­ities of sleep and its peri­meters in­tro­duce interesting […]

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Scenes from Babel

Sunday, 10 January 2010

Scenes from Babel uses re­cord­ings of the human voice al­most ex­clus­ively, ex­ploring the sound material’s po­ten­tial for the con­trasting of a nat­ural (but seem­ingly ar­ti­fi­cial), in­terior, oral space with an ar­ti­fi­cial (but seem­ingly nat­ural), ex­terior, en­vir­on­mental space. The re­cord­ings are of the story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1  –  9) in ten lan­guages and I […]

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Books of Moses

Tuesday, 3 June 2008

My first tape piece, Books of Moses ap­proaches is­sues of cre­ativity and the col­lective con­scious­ness. I wanted to ex­amine the pro­cess by which sym­bols are as­sim­il­ated and re-used by cul­tures and the piece de­velops opening ma­terial to­wards a new place un­mis­tak­ably rooted in the past. Sound sources in­cluded car­riers of se­mantic data such as books, […]

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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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