A conference poster with black and red text on a beige background, promoting artistic events and performances in Greece and Italy, including dates and locations.

FALL 2026 CROATIA, GREECE, ITALY

New compositions for performance & installation

September/October: Special Locations in Dalmatian Islands, Athens, Thessaloniki, and Rome

Produced with support from: Cavafy Archive MOMus Experimental Center for the Arts MAXXI

A conference poster for an event called 'TeguMents' featuring a new composition by Preston Swirnoff, scheduled from September 4 to 7, 2026, at Brac, Hvar, and Vis in Croatia, with support from Cavafy Archive, using black and white lines forming abstract shapes and text.

PAST:

Two men standing outdoors with a hilly landscape in the background. One is wearing a black t-shirt, black pants, and sandals, while the other is wearing a green jacket, light blue jeans, and sneakers. The photo is at the Scent and Art Festival 2026.
A choir of men and women singing on stage, directed by a conductor, with a DJ or sound engineer operating equipment in front of them, in a dimly lit venue with pink accent lighting on the brick wall.

ODOPHONICS for Choir and Scent

Collaboration with scent artist Brian Goeltzenleuchter

Scent Art Festival 2026 Riga Latvia

May 6-10 Creative Factory Veldze

performed by Jāzeps Madinš Riga School of Music Mixed Choir

artistic leader: Nora Žeigure / conductor: Tomass Meri

A modern interior space with a decorative wooden slat ceiling installation and natural light flooding in, white walls, and a polished concrete floor.

SINGAPORE BIENNALE

SIX (the hexad) sound installation Feb 20-Mar 29 2026

Tanjong Pakar Distripark Singapore Art Museum

Corsican cliffside with buildings on top overlooking the ocean.

PRESTON SWIRNOFF ::: TOWARD ALL SUNS

Performances & Installations October 2025

BONIFACIO, CORSICA PARIS, FRANCE ZAGREB, CROATIA THESSALONIKI, GREECE SOFIA, BULGARIA

Crossing the Steppe LP out now on Set Spaces.

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Swirnoff uses only acoustic instruments with subtle tape manipulation and the natural reverb of a large warehouse space to create a haunting atmosphere inspired by the terrain of the Great Steppe, the vast ecoregion connecting Europe to Asia, a mysterious winding trail that blurs our traditional boundaries of East/West. Detuned guitars, unidentified percussion, bells, hurdy gurdy, reed organ, kalimba, autoharp, double flutes, natural materials, vocalizations with breath and whistling, passing trains, running footsteps, insistent knocking on an old wooden door, coalesce in a suite of intimate songs and interludes that evoke a fragile dreamlike state. It is the sonority of one faced with a momentous journey, whether internal or out on the open road.

The music revels in the hidden spaces between the physical and symbolic, haunting and entrancing, as the album transports the listener to a floating purgatory, a disorienting unmappable locale.

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A page from a book with a quote attributed to Max Picard, discussing how Orpheus overcame darkness through his song rather than destruction.