Chris Swithinbank

This Sat­ur­day, Paris’s newest new music en­sem­ble soun­dini­tia­tive will per­form my Small Atlas in an af­ter­noon recital at the Con­ser­va­toire de Saint-Cloud. The per­form­ers in my piece are Paolo Vi­g­naroli, Joshua Hyde, Fa­bi­enne Séveil­lac and Shira Leg­mann. There’s a re­ally great pro­gramme lined up with music by Sal­va­tore Scia­r­rino, Gi­ac­into Scelsi, Julien Malaussena, Yoshi­fumi Tanaka and Simon Steen-An­der­sen, so if you’re in the Paris area, you should def­i­nitely try and make it.

For me it’s a first to hear the same piece played three times in fairly quick suc­ces­sion by three dif­fer­ent groups of mu­si­cians — a real plea­sure. See you there!

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Every­one in Man­ches­ter should come to the In­ter­na­tional An­thony Burgess Foun­da­tion this Fri­day evening for what promises to be an ex­cit­ing evening of new music, rang­ing from ex­per­i­men­tal new works to im­pro­vi­sa­tion and jazz. The pro­gramme in­cludes the UK première of my most re­cent work, Small Atlas by the Raise Your Voice En­sem­ble’s Jenny Dyson, Jon Guy, Re­becca Lea and Aaron Parker along­side works by Steve Reich, Mor­ton Feld­man, Karl­heinz Stock­hausen and Mal­colm Hayes. The evening also fea­tures per­for­mances by good friends Trio Atem — per­form­ing works by Tom Coult, more Feld­man, Ian Vine, Mar­tin Iddon, Har­ri­son Birtwistle, Toru Takemitsu, Georges Aperghis and Michael May­hew — and fin­ishes with a set from the re­cently-formed 265 Quar­tet. Tick­ets are a bar­gain at £3!

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As of today, I am study­ing on ‘Cur­sus 1’ at IRCAM in Paris. Over the next seven months, I will be fol­low­ing the cur­ricu­lum cov­er­ing all as­pects of com­po­si­tion in­volv­ing com­put­ers, cul­mi­nat­ing next spring in the cre­ation of a new work for solo in­stru­ment and elec­tron­ics. I am grate­ful for the sup­port of an En­tente Cor­diale schol­ar­ship from the French state in con­tin­u­ing my stud­ies.

You will be able to hear my tape piece La leg­gerezza delle città in an ex­hi­bi­tion of elec­troa­coustic and sound­scape com­po­si­tions at the Sonorous-Hor­reum lis­ten­ing room at the KAPU (map) in Linz, Aus­tria, 2–5 Sep­tem­ber as part of this year’s Ars Elec­tron­ica Fes­ti­val. The or­gan­is­ers de­scribe the ex­hi­bi­tion as:

… an ex­hi­bi­tion of sound works sur­rounded by con­certs. In­ter­na­tional sound artists meet local com­po­si­tions and the au­di­ence in a mul­ti­chan­nel lis­ten­ing room — the “Sonorous-Hor­reum”. Sounds and noises that make us doubt in the dark­ness as at the same time we com­pose the land­scape only by lis­ten­ing.

Many thanks go to Clemens Pich­ler and En­rique Tomás for or­gan­is­ing this.