Marc Sabat

Marc Sabat (born September 22, 1965 in Kitchener , Ontario ) is a Canadian composer who has lived in Berlin since 1999.

Live and act

Works

Marc Sabat has written music for concert performances, as well as videos and installations with acoustic instruments. He moves in the field of computer-generated live electronics , inspired by research into sound and perception , by American folk, experimental music and minimal music .

His music was performed at the Bludenzer Days of Contemporary Music , the Donaueschinger Musiktage , MaerzMusik , the Darmstadt Summer Courses and the Carnegie Hall .

Sabat also works with visual artists and fellow composers, such as his brother, the painter and filmmaker Peter Sabat, with John Oswald, Martin Arnold, Nicolas Fernandez, Matteo Fargion, Wolfgang von Schweinitz and Stefan Bartling. Since 2006 Marc Sabat has been working on a series that stages musical compositions with works by the Düsseldorf-based artist Lorenzo Pompa.

research

Since the early 1990s, Sabat has been researching the field of harmony on the pair of concepts theory and musical practice (pure tuning). Together with Wolfgang von Schweinitz, he designed a method for designating the natural mood - the so-called Extended Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation . He empirically investigated intervals with string and wind instruments and presented a list of tuneable intervals - interval relationships of electronic and acoustic instruments within a 3-octave space that can easily be tuned by ear. Such intervals are prominently represented in a number of more recent compositions and at the same time form the basis of self-tuning algorithms ( Micromaelodeon ). The latest version was in April 2009 in a Haken Audio Continuum fingerboard implemented and programmed in Max / MSP .

Studies, teaching, artist residencies

Sabat studied at the University of Toronto and the Juilliard School in New York and took private lessons with Malcolm Goldstein , James Tenney and Walter Zimmermann . He took courses in electronic and computer music at McGill University . From 2008 to 2009 he was a participant in a pilot project at the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences, initiated by the Berlin University of the Arts .

He teaches composition, acoustics and experimental intonation at the University of the Arts and has been a guest artist at the California Institute of the Arts , the Escola Superior in Barcelona, ​​the Janáček Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Brno and the Paris Conservatory .

In autumn 2010 he was artist in residence at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, followed by an annual scholarship in 2011 at Villa Massimo in Rome. He was a scholarship holder of the Akademie Schloss Solitude (1997–98) and the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben .

Career as a violinist

Since the beginning of the 1980s, Sabat has also been active as an interpreter on violin and adapted viola, primarily in the field of American experimental music of the 20th century. He recorded CDs with music by James Tenney , Morton Feldman , Christian Wolff and Maria de Alvear, among others . In the 1990s, living in Toronto, he formed a duo with the pianist Stephen Clarke and performed with the Modern Quartet and array music. He largely gave up a concert career in favor of composing.

Works

1990-1999

• 1993: 3 Chorales for Harry Partch (violin, viola)
• 1994: Beautiful city (string quartet)
• 1995: 2 piano studies
• 1996: Composition for trumpet and bass drum
• 1996: Quiet Winter (violin solo, 3 saxophones, 2 clarinets, violin, cello, bass)
• 1996: pier (ships horns; composed with John Oswald)
• 1996: Nocturne (piano)
• 1997: For Magister Zacharias (performance for amplified Steinway piano mechanism)
• 1997: for solo voice (soprano)
• 1997: You & Mr Mason (11 piano players with no previous experience required)
• 1997: An Opera (violin and clavichord or marimba; based on a text by Emmett Williams )
• 1997: Mein Mantel ist weg for Ensemble Da Noi (whistling, saxophones, violin, electric bass, harpsichord)
• 1997: Change in your pocket (performance for any string instrument & digital delay)
• 1997: New shoes, without laces (monodrama for female voice, accordion, violin, cello, percussion; text by Nicolas Fernandez)
• 1998: Trio for piano violin cello
• 1998: A modern department store (clarinet, trombone, cello, piano)
• 1998: Everlasting sweet peas (3 violins)
• 1998: Three Fleshy Loves (clarinet, violin, cello, piano)
• 1998: Backyard summer patio (bass clarinet, percussion, piano)
• 1999: 4 piano inventions (piano)

2000-2009

• 2000: Idyllily (11 solo strings [6,2,2,1] and obbligato voices); composed with Martin Arnold, John Oswald, Richard Wagner
• 2000: YOU MAY NOT WANT TO BE HERE (after Bruce Nauman ) (violin, piano, voices; composed with Matteo Fargion)
• 2000: Hope (male and female voice, bass flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano; text by Philostratus , translated by Christian Wolff )
• 2001: John Jenkins (6 instruments & 2-manual harpsichord in Helmholtz temperament)
• 2001: Johann Sebastian Bach RICERCAR Musical Sacrifice 1 INTONATION (any 3 appropriate instruments in Just Intonation ; made with Wolfgang von Schweinitz)
• 2002: Change in your pocket (DVD-Video with 2-channel sound; made with Nicolas Fernandez and Peter Sabat)
• 2002: Artificial Music for Machines (MIDI-output acoustic piano, computer-generated tuned sinetones)
• 2002: Three For Magister Zacharias (DVD-Video with 5-channel sound; made with Peter Sabat)
• 2003: John Jenkins (string trio and 2-manual harpsichord in Helmholtz Temperament)
• 2004: Three For Magister Zacharias (installation; made with Peter Sabat)
• 2004: Henrys Cowbell DJ & Strike (5 percussionists and computer-generated electronic tones)
• 2004: Les Duresses: a book of music in Just Intonation (solo violin / 2 violins)
• 2005: Spectral Canon No. 1 (for James Tenney) (12 contrabasses or solo contrabass with delay)
• 2005: Wonderful Scatter (music scenery for 6-valve F tuba, computer, filtered loudspeaker)
• 2006: By the Rivers of Babylon (version for solo intoning voice and adapted viola with spoken, sung and played accompaniment on horn, trombone, and tuba; based on words and melody notated by Harry Partch )
• 2006: November 15, 1935 - Leaving Santa Barbara (version for solo intoning voice and adapted viola with spoken, sung and played accompaniment on violin, viola, and violoncello; based on words and melody notated by Harry Partch)
• 2007: AUTOMAT (music scenery for 2 violins and video; made with Peter Sabat)
• 2007: reminded of charlemagne Palestine (violin, cello, piano)
• 2007: WAKE for JIM (player-piano and live performer)
• 2007: reminded again (music scenery for accordion / harmonium and electronic tones)
• 2007: wave piano scenery player (MIDI piano, computer and live performer; made with Lorenzo Pompa)
• 2007: November 15, 1935 - Leaving Santa Barbara (version for solo intoning voice and violin; based on words and melody notated by Harry Partch)
• 2008: Claudius Ptolemy (violin, cello)
• 2008: De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine (viola, bass violin and cello - each instrumentalist must also sing)
• 2008: By the Rivers of Babylon (bass and mezzo-soprano voices, adapted viola and synthesizer; based on words and melody notated by Harry Partch)
• 2009: Erbsen (5 recorders or solo recorder with prerecorded track)
• 2009: eudaimonia (piano; composed with Stefan Bartling)
• 2009: Garden Songs (prerecorded voice, alto flute, dobro, percussion; text by Wolfgang Betke)
• 2009: Father's suit and watch (video ballet; made with Lorenzo Pompa)
• 2009: Tristan, Isolde (2 pianos)
• 2009: Cucumber Serenades (Gurkenlieder) (violin solo, violin choir, electronic tones)
• 2009: 2nd WAKE (for Bob) (computer-controlled Fokker organ in 31-tone equal temperament)

Since 2010

• 2010: Composition for La Monte Young (February 2010) (two players, twice the same instrument)
• 2010: String Quartet 2 (Cucumber Variation) (2 violins, viola, cello)
• 2010: Hairy Hippy Happy (double horn, tenorbass trombone, 5-valve F-tuba)
• 2010: Epistolae Cucumeris (edition; 2010)
• 2011: John Jenkins (2-manual harpsichord in just Intonation, six instruments)
• 2011: Euler Lattice Spirals Scenery (string quartet)
• 2011: Kaleidoscope for Gerd Lünenbürger (string ensemble)
• 2011: ERIK SATIE Vexations INTONATION (3 instruments-open)
• 2011: LOSS and GAIN (edition of 7 double LP vinyl dub plates)
• 2012: Jean-Philippe Rameau (any three sustaining instruments)
• 2012: Lying in the grass, river and clouds (solo piano and 14 instruments: alto flute / piccolo, oboe d'amore, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trombone, tuba, percussion, digital keyboard, violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello, bass)

Web links

• Plainsound Music Edition
• Marc Sabat homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Donaueschingen archive of the SWR
2. ↑ MaerzMusik Composers Archive
3. ↑ Berlin In Lights Festival Program, Carnegie Hall ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Extended Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation (PDF; 619 kB)
5. ↑ Algorithm for harmonic fine tuning in real time (PDF; 391 kB)
6. ^ UdK lecturers and lecturers
7. ^ Villa Aurora scholarship holders 2010
8. ↑ Villa Massimo Scholarship Holders 2011 ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.