Malcolm Goldstein, violin
Marc Sabat, viola

In the piece “3 Chorales for Harry Partch”, my music explores Partch’s concept of “utonality”, which constructs the minor triad as an inverted mirror-image of the major triad. Since the major triad is derived from the harmonic series, i.e. 4-5-6, and may be extended upward by taking additional overtones, i.e. 4-5-6-7-9-11, Partch suggests a parallel notion for the construction of the minor triad, by taking intervals from a subharmonic series. There is an inherent paradox in this construction, since the overtone chords “fit” into a fundamental (1) and form a consonant blend, whereas the undertone chords tend to produce much more complex-sounding (dissonant) structures. In my composition, a single “utonal” chord is gradually constructed, pitch-by-pitch, over three phrases. The undertones appear in the following sequence:    

(1) 12 (D) - 8 (A) - 9 (G)      
(2) 12 - 10 - 8 - 11    
(3) 8 - 11 - 12 - 14 - 10 - 9

3 Chorales for Harry Partch (1993)

[Acoustic/Thoughtful] - "Wander"

New double-disc album by The Westerlies

To be released by Songlines Recordings on October 21, 2016

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A Nearer Sun (disc 1)

Christoph Berg & Henning Schmiedt - Flügelschlag

Due to all the insane technology out there, I (once in a while) need to make something clean and unedited.

The Expanse

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[Piano Improvisation] → The Expanse (FREE DOWNLOAD)

hear the original songs here: https://lullatone.bandcamp.com/track/an-older-couple-holding-hands

Music for Museum Gift Shops

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an older couple holding hands (piano version)

Zinovia Arvanitidi - Invisible (Ivory, 2018)

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SA001
Released January 17, 2019 

Mix and Master by Harry Wilson 
Photography by Lee Kirby 
Design by Aspa Founti & Tom Howe 
All Recordings © 2019 SA Recordings 
All Compositions © 2018 Oliver Patrice Weder

For A Troubled Mind

Homecoming

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor

Bach/Schoenberg: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV 552 (December 1991)

Woods

Canadian composer Marc Sabat (*1965) is based in Berlin since 1999. He has made pieces for concert and installation settings, drawing inspiration from investigations of the sounding and perception of Just Intonation and of various music traditions — folk, experimental and classical. His pieces are presented and broadcast internationally at festivals of new music including the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Klangspuren Schwaz, MaerzMusik, Huddersfield, Darmstadt, Musica Viva and Carnegie Hall. Scores and artist editions are available from Plainsound Music Edition. Recent recordings include the LP “Les Duresses”, released by care of editions (Berlin) as well as discs on the labels Populist Records (Los Angeles) and World Edition (Köln).

Sabat studied composition, violin and mathematics at the University of Toronto, at the Juilliard School in New York, and at McGill University, as well as working privately with Malcolm Goldstein, James Tenney and Walter Zimmermann. Together with Wolfgang von Schweinitz he has developed the Extended Helmholtz-Ellis JI Pitch Notation and is a pioneer of music written and performed in extended Just Intonation. He teaches at the Universität der Künste Berlin, and as a guest at the California Institute of the Arts, the Escola Superior in Barcelona, the Janacek Academy in Brno and the Paris Conservatoire. In 2010, he was an artist-in-residence of the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, followed in 2011 by a one year residency at the German Academy in Rome, Villa Massimo.