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Darmstadt 2014

Summer is drawing to a close and I’m flying back to the USA. Before it ends, here we are in Darmstadt, work­shop­ping ideas for a new work, ru­mour  —  dis­tant land, with Gwen Rouger, Franco Venturini and Simon Steen-Andersen. Experiments with the mu­si­cians of soundini­ti­ative will in­form the use of cas­sette players in my work being premiered by DieOrdnungDerDinge in November at the […]

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March Music: Stockholm & Brussels

I’m lucky enough to be fin­ishing this month with two con­certs. On 22 March, the Curious Chamber Players will per­form The Incredulity of St Thomas as part of Samtida Musik’s Vårflod Festival in Stockholm. The rest of the pro­gramme fea­tures re­cent works by Swedish com­posers and the con­cert is fol­lowed by a re­cital given by […]

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All that is solid melts into air in Paris

On Sunday 3 February, soundini­ti­ative will give the first per­form­ance of All that is solid melts into air at the Collège Franco-Britannique (MÉTRO Cité Universitaire) in Paris. The con­cert will also in­clude a new ver­sion of my All the time that you have what we have. / All the time that you have. for mezzo-soprano and two vi­olas, the […]

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Small Atlas at the Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre

soundini­ti­ative per­form Chris Swithinbank’s ‘Small Atlas’ at the Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre, CIUP, Paris 75014, France, 5 December 2011.

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Small Atlas in Paris

soundini­ti­ative per­form Chris Swithinbank’s ‘Small Atlas’ at Conservatoire de Saint-Cloud, Paris, France, 22 October 2011.

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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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