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The Canadian composer and visual artist Chiyoko Szlavnics has been living in Berlin since 1998. She graduated from the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto in 1989. She studied privately with the composer James Tenney in Toronto from 1994-7, and a year later relocated to Berlin. From 2000 onward, her compositional process increasingly tended toward a visual structuring of musical notation on the page, and in 2004, line drawings—which Szlavnics had often used while sketching ideas for compositions—finally became the actual basis for them. Szlavnics continues to practice in both disciplines (composition and visual art), with considerations and observations in each medium continually informing and influencing the other.