Intimacy of Detail: The Music of Chiyoko Szlavnics

Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 9:00pm
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
43A West 13th Street New York, NY, 10011

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Chiyoko Szlavnics
(photo by Matthew Billings)

On Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at Tenri Cultural Institute, Either/Or presents Intimacy of Detail, a special performance centered on the singular sound world of Canadian-born, Berlin-based composer Chiyoko Szlavnics. The program retrospectively focuses on Szlavnics’ work from the mid-Aughts forward. From the year 2000 onward, 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.” The string quartet Gradients Of Detail (2005/6) is a prime example of this method of transliteration which the stellar string players of Either/Or will bring to life within the assiduously close listening space of Tenri. Paired with the larger ensemble work (a)long lines… (2004/rev. 2017) and Constellations I-III (2011) for piano & sine tones, EO’s local audience will gain meaningful access to Szlavnics' involving aural environments.   

PROGRAM
Chiyoko Szlavnics, composer

(a)long lines: we'll draw our own lines (2004/rev. 2017)
flute, trombone, violin, violoncello, percussion, sine tones

Constellations I-III (2011)
piano and sine tones

Gradients Of Detail (2005/6)
string quartet

PERSONNEL
Richard Carrick - piano (EO Director); Jennifer Choi - violin; Pala Garcia - violin; Margaret Lancaster - flute; Hannah Levinson - viola; Alex Lough - electronics & sound; Chris McIntyre - trombone (curator); Chris Nappi - percussion; John Popham - cello

Gradient of Detail (2005) - drawings by the composer