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Biography Chiyoko Szlavnics is a Canadian composer and visual artist, whose practice is based in Berlin. She began composing after graduating from university music studies in Toronto in 1989, and studied privately with James Tenney from 1993-7. A generous Fellowship Grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude took her to Germany in 1997, after which she moved to Berlin and joined its fertile international experimental music community. She composes for acoustic instruments and also enjoys programming sinewaves, often combining the two. Around the year 2000, she developed a compositional approach based on self-generated drawings. The drawings enabled her to conceive and realise a kind of music, which promotes the perception of certain psychoacoustic phenomena (beating and combination tones), through her sensitive setting of ratio-related pitch material in sustains and extended glissandi, and her careful orchestration. Drawing became an independent artistic practice around the year 2010, and Chiyoko Szlavnics has since made numerous "moiré" series, which have shown in numerous exhibitions internationally - in Toronto, London, Berlin, Barcelona, and Paris. Current/recent projects include: Oracles I-V recording (Oct. 2023) by Ensemble Contrechamps at Bellelay Abbey, Switzerland, for a surround-sound CD release on the Barcelona-based Neu Records label (Release date: January 2025). Studio residency with Marco Fusi at the Akademie der Künste Berlin (June 2024): Structures in the Mind's Eye. Development of tuning strategies for the sympathetic strings of the viola d'amore and new concepts for the playback of pre-recorded viola material & sinewaves. |