Marc Sabat

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

  • 2.1 1990-1999
  • 2.2 2000-2009
  • 2.3 since 2010

Life and work

Works

Marc Sabat has written music for concert performances, videos and installations backed with acoustic instruments. He uses computer -generated live electronics, inspired by studies on sound and perception in interval relations ( intonation ), American folk, experimental music and the Minimal Art

His music has been performed on the Bludenzer Days of Contemporary Music, the Donaueschingen Music Festival, March Music in Darmstadt or Carnegie Hall.

Sabat also collaborates with visual artists and composers colleagues, as his brother, the painter and filmmaker Peter Sabat, John Oswald, Martin Arnold, Nicolas Fernandez, Matteo Fargion, Wolfgang von Schweinitz and Stefan Bartling. Since 2006, Marc Sabat is engaged in a series, the musical compositions of works by living in Dusseldorf artist Lorenzo Pompa 'sets the scene ' in. Sabats music can be heard in the Plain Sound Music Edition as well as a YouTube channel.

Research

Since the early 1990s Sabat research in the harmony to the pair of concepts theory and musical practice field ( just intonation ). Together with Wolfgang von Schweinitz, he designed a method to describe the natural atmosphere, the so-called "Extended Helmholtz -Ellis JI Pitch Notation". He examined the intervals empirically with stringed and wind instruments, and laid with a list of " tuneable intervals": Interval relationships within a 3- octave space that can be easily tuned by ear, both electronic and acoustic sounds. Of such intervals are prominently represented in a number of recent compositions and also the basic self - provoking computer algorithms ( " Micromaelodeon "). The latest version was implemented in April 2009 in a " hook Audio Continuum Fingerboard " and programmed in MaxMSP.

Studies, teaching, Artist Residencies

Sabat studied at the University of Toronto, at 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. 2008 to 2009 he participated in a pilot project of the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences, initiated by the University of the Arts Berlin.

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

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

Career as a violinist

Since the early 1980s, Sabat was as performer on violin and viola adapted active, primarily in the area of American Experimentaller 20th century music. He took on CDs, among other things, with music by James Tenney, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff and Maria de Alvear. In the 1990s, living in Toronto, he founded a duo with pianist Stephen Clarke and performed with the Modern Quartet array and Music. Just as the American pianist and electronic music pioneer David Tudor Sabat was in the past years, a concert career in favor of composing largely on.

List of Works

1990-1999

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 Musical Offering RICERCAR 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 sine tones tuned )
  • 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: Henry 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 contra basses 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 viola angepasst with spoken, sung and played accompaniment on horn, trombone, tuba and, based on words and melody notated by Harry Partch )
  • 2006: November 15, 1935 - Leaving Santa Barbara (version for solo intoning voice and viola angepasst with spoken, sung and played accompaniment on violin, viola, violoncello and, based on words and melody notated by Harry Partch )
  • 2007: AUTOMATIC (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 therefore sing )
  • 2008: By the Rivers of Babylon ( mezzo - soprano voices and bass, viola and synthesizer angepasst; based on words and melody notated by Harry Partch )
  • 2009: Peas ( 5 solo recorder or recorder with prerecorded track)
  • 2009: eudaimonia (piano, composed with Stefan Bartling )
  • 2009: Garden Song ( 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 (cucumbers songs) ( violin solo, violin choir, electronic tones )

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, tenor trombone, bass, 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)
  • 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)
Donaueschingen Festival Christian Wolff (composer) Emmett Williams
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