Author Archives: Chris

something golden in the night

some­thing golden in the night rep­res­ents a first at­tempt to trans­form the tra­di­tional con­cert hall con­text through an ab­stract sceno­graphy that be­gins to con­struct a new con­text within the frame­work of a clas­sical con­cert. A sax­o­phonist is ac­com­panied in their per­form­ance by a play of shadows coming from a sculp­ture, the move­ment of which is […]

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June Unfolding on BBC Radio 3

During the in­terval of BBC Radio 3’s live con­cert broad­cast on Friday 2 March, you can hear me talking to King Edward Musical Society chairman Tim Ward about my or­ches­tral work June Unfolding, which they premiered last summer as part of the cel­eb­ra­tions for the 750th an­niversary of the royal charter of Macclesfield. The piece was […]

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La leggerezza delle città in San Francisco

Saturday, 21 January 2012, 20:00 — La leggerezza delle città, San Francisco Tape Music Festival, ODC Theatre, San Francisco CA, 94110, USA.

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Happy New Year!

Last year I put to­gether a lengthy look at good stuff I’d seen, heard and read. To close this year, here are some much briefer notes on some of the best things I en­countered in the last 12 months. Richard Craig, Inward — Without a doubt the best disc of new music I’ve heard this year, […]

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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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  • Microbiography

    Chris Swithinbank is a British-Dutch com­poser who works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds cur­rently based in Paris, France.
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