Chris Swithinbank

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always extra folds of birds of paper and you could move your finger along the length of them and have witnesses

With thanks to Renee Glad­man for her Calami­ties, from which I bor­row this title. Thank you to Car­olyn Chen for her ants and screams, to Sivan Cohen Elias for her vi­brant webs, and to Clara Ian­notta for her de­ter­mined play.

Stage set-up for the first performance.

Stage set-up for the first per­for­mance with Yarn/Wire.

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Work Details

Duration

variable

Instrumentation

  • small tables
  • EBows
  • string insrument bows
  • rosin
  • glass marbles
  • ball bearings
  • bowls and similar containers
  • bamboo steamer
  • plates
  • corrugated conduits
  • a grand piano
  • a pencil
  • thread
  • tin foil
  • paper clips
  • C-clamps
  • adhesive felt
  • guitar machine heads
  • scrap wood
  • 6 condenser microphones
  • 4 powered monitors
  • 10 XLR cables
  • mixing console

Performances

  • WP 18 March 2017

    Yarn/Wire, Paine Hall, Harvard University

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