Attunement
In this keynote, Marc Sabat, will share his artistic practice and how it is shaped by listening to qualities of tuneable Just intervals.
Marc is a Canadian composer of Ukrainian descent who has been based in Berlin since 1999. He makes pieces for concert and installation settings, drawing inspiration from investigations of the sounding and perception of Just Intonation and of various music forms — folk, experimental and classical. He is a frequent collaborator, seeking fruitful interactions with other musicians and artists of visual and literary modes to find points of shared exploration and dialogue between various forms of experience and different cultural traditions. 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 microtonal Just Intonation. He teaches composition and the theory and practice of intonation at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Creative commons scores and artist editions are available from Plainsound Music Edition.
David Henkelman was born in Vancouver, Canada. In 2012 he received a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Spanish, and then in 2015 he received a Bachelor’s of Music degree in harpsichord and historical performance from McGill University in Montreal. In 2016 David began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg, studying harpsichord and fortepiano with Prof. Dr. Robert Hill and basso continuo with Prof. Michael Behringer. He finished his studies in 2019. As a harpsichordist and a continuo player, David has participated in several concerts and projects under such renowned directors as Jeanne Lamon (Tafelmusik), Raphaël Pidoux, Adrian Butterfield, and Ton Koopman, Since 2018 he has been a scholarship recipient from the Williamson Foundation of Music.