Experiencing and Exploring Tuning
Marc Sabat with NYKY Ensemble, Sibelius Academy • lecture-performance • program notes
a 2026 presentation in Black Box, Musikkitalo, Helsinki, exploring microchromatic harmonies and just intonation through works by Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney, Elsie Hamilton, and Marc Sabat.
HANDS to MOUTHS
is an audiovisual installation by Mareike Yin-Yee Lee and Marc Sabat, featuring the remarkable Dhrupad singer Marianne Svasek • video
Created in Brussels during a residency at QO2 workspace for experimental music and sound art, it has been shown at AMBITUS. Kunst und Musik heute (2018–19), a group exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, and is featured in the show wayfinders : au gré des sens (2026) at MAI | Montréal, arts interculturels.
The Tree
is a cycle of music for open instrumentation inspired by my doctoral research • find out more • score (version for Ensemble Proton) • listen
Ongoing performances • 2025: Harmonic Space Orchestra (Partial Branches, Berlin and Barcelona); Cara Dawson/Sebastian Dumitrescu (The Just Tuned Harp, Berlin); Ensemble Proton (Bold & Just, Bern, Basel); 2026: Ensemble NYKY (Helsinki); 2027: Ensemble Musikfabrik (Köln)
Tuning Bach
with Sara Cubarsi and Xenia Gogu (violins) • lecture-performance • studio recording • release
a 2024 presentation in Organo, Musikkitalo, Helsinki, exploring the possibilities of applying rational intonation to the solo violin sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Harmonic Space 2020: James Tenney
featuring the Harmonic Space Orchestra, co-curated by Marc Sabat • about • listen
a festival of music by and inspired by James Tenney presented live at KM28 and KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in between the pandemic lockdowns.