Canadian composer and audio artist Marc Sabat has been based in Berlin since 1999. He has made installations, video works and concert music pieces using acoustic instruments and electronics. His work draws inspiration from investigations of the sounding and perception of small number relations, American folk and experimental musics, Minimal Art, and ongoing collaborations with other artists, and is presented internationally in radio broadcasts and at festivals of new music including the Donaueschinger Musiktage, MaerzMusik, Darmstadt and Carnegie Hall.
Current projects include retrospectives of his work in Buenos Aires, Basel and Berlin, a collaboration with Lorenzo Pompa and Wolfgang Betke (‘Salt Opera’), a piano concerto for Daan Vandewalle, and string music for Ensemble Kaleidoskop (Berlin) and the Formalist Quartet (Los Angeles). Together with artist Mareike Lee, he is curating the series zwielicht at A trans Pavilion in the Hackesche Höfe Berlin.
Sabat studied at the University of Toronto, at the Juilliard School in New York, as well as working privately with Malcolm Goldstein, James Tenney and Walter Zimmermann. He teaches courses in composition, acoustics and experimental intonation at the Universität der Künste Berlin, and has been a guest artist at the California Institute of the Arts, at the Escola Superior in Barcelona and the Paris Conservatoire. In 2010, he will be an artist-in-residence of the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
