Tag Archives: MANTIS Festival

Cities & Sunsets

On Sunday, my tape piece from last summer in­spired by the light­ness and quick­ness of aural ex­per­i­ence in urban spaces, La leggerezza delle città, will be played as part of the 15th bi­an­nual Manchester Theatre in Sound (MANTIS) Festival. This edi­tion bears the title ‘Manchester’s Sonic Meta-ontology’ and will ex­plore Manchester’s sounds through a variety […]

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Points of Contact: MANTIS Fall Festival 2010

The bi­an­nual MANTIS Festival at the University of Manchester presents fixed media works and works with live elec­tronics, per­forming these over a large sound dif­fu­sion system that com­prises around 40 loud­speakers. The con­certs over the Halloween weekend show­cased the work of stu­dents at the uni­ver­sity, that of in­vited guest com­posers and in­cluded the first collaboration […]

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Para cruzar el sueño @ MANTIS Festival

Tape piece Para cruzar el sueño, which I wrote last au­tumn at the NOVARS Research Centre, was premiered as part of the Spring 2010 MANTIS Festival at the University of Manchester on Sunday 21st February at 2:00 pm. I also played cello on the Saturday night in the First MANTIS Battle of Improvised Music: Voice, acoustic […]

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Books of Moses @ MANTIS Festival

Books of Moses, a stereo acous­matic work written last year at the NOVARS Research Centre, re­ceived its public premiere at the MANTIS Festival this au­tumn in a con­cert in­cluding works by Alexis Guneratne, Richard Scott, Mark Pilkington and Diana Simpson. The weekend fest­ival fea­tured cur­ated con­certs from guest com­posers Denis Smalley and Theodore Lotis alongside […]

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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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