Marc Sabat was born on 22 September 1965 and is a Canadian composer based in Berlin, Germany, since 1999.
14 Facts About Marc Sabat
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Marc Sabat has made concert music pieces, works with video, and installations.
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Marc Sabat relates his practice to various music forms, seeking points of shared exploration and dialogue between different modes of experience and cultural traditions.
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Marc Sabat's works do not fall into a single personal style, but they generally share a crystalline clarity of texture and a seek to focus listeners' perception of sounding structures into a process of musical 'thinking'.
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Marc Sabat is a frequent collaborator, having worked often with visual artists and other composers, including brother painter and filmmaker Peter Marc Sabat.
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Since the early 1990s, Marc Sabat has been reinvestigating harmony by studying the theory and musical applications of rational intonation.
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Marc Sabat has studied JI intervals empirically on string and brass instruments, developing a list of so-called "tuneable intervals": ratios within a three-octave span which can readily be tuned by ear using electronic or acoustic sounds.
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Marc Sabat is a pioneer of instrumental music written and performed in JI and one of few composers composing for larger forces with these sounds.
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Largely self-taught as a composer, Marc Sabat studied violin at the University of Toronto, at the Juilliard School in New York, as well as working privately with improviser Malcolm Goldstein and composers James Tenney and Walter Zimmermann, among others.
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Marc Sabat attended courses in electronic and computer music at McGill University.
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Marc Sabat teaches courses in composition, acoustics and experimental intonation at the Universitat der Kunste Berlin, and has been a guest artist at the California Institute of the Arts, at the Liszt Academy Budapest, the Escola Superior in Barcelona, the Janacek Music Academy in Brno and the Paris Conservatoire.
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Marc Sabat has been a regular lector at the Ostrava Days Festival and Institute since 2017.
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Marc Sabat is currently a doctoral researcher at the Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki.
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Marc Sabat has recorded CDs of music by James Tenney, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, and Maria de Alvear, amongst others.