Chiyoko Szlavnics
Chiyoko Szlavnics is a Canadian composer and visual artist, born in Toronto in 1967 and living in Berlin since the late 1990s. She graduated from the Faculty of Music of the University of Toronto in 1989 and studied with James Tenney. Her music uses long sustained tones and slow glissandi, often with sine waves alongside the instruments, and many of her pieces start from her own drawings. Szlavnics has written for or been played by Klangforum Wien, Quatuor Bozzini and Ensemble Musikfabrik, at festivals including MaerzMusik and the Donaueschinger Musiktage.
Musicworks 69 (CD+magazine)
One of the best magazines of experimental music / sound art, founded by John Oswald and published since 1978. Includes feaurures, essays, interviews, reviews, etc., and comes with a CD with (often exclusive) music/sound in relation to the contents of…
During a Lifetime
The fourth disc in the Canadian Composers Series features the music of Chiyoko Szlavnics. The CD contains three works, two of which use sinewaves in conjuncton with acoustic instruments. The title track ‘During a Lifetime’ is written for sinewaves an…