sr011
Purchase Options
sr010
Marc Sabat/Harmonic Space Orchestra
Gioseffo Zarlino (2015/2019)
  • Harmonic Space Orchestra
  • Rebecca Lane - quarter-tone bass flute
  • Fredrik Rasten - guitar
  • Marta Garcia-Gomez - harp
  • Thomas Nicholson - positive organ
  • Catherine Lamb & Yannick Guedon - voices
  • Silvia Tarozzi - violin
  • Marc Sabat - viola
  • Deborah Walker - cello
Marc Sabat's Gioseffo Zarlino is "the third in a series of pieces inspired by ideas in the history of music theory, which I seek to experience and unfold in a sounding world" (taken from the liner notes by the composer). In the piece, unfolding cyclically over 70 minutes, voices, strings, harp, and flute, weave through each other exploring a novel tonal space developed by the Renaissance Italian Composer-Theorist, Gioseffo Zarlino in 1558 and reinterpreted in the 21st Century by Sabat. By articulating minor differences in tone and interval (through instrumentation and vowel formants) during successive interpretations of the piece, Sabat conjures the spirit of restless innovation put forth, and all too often forgotten in modernity, over 400 years ago by musical theorists such as Zarlino.
  • recorded August 2019 at Andreas Kirche, Wansee, Berlin by Adam Asnan
  • mixed by Marc Sabat
  • mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
  • glass mastered CD, edition of 500 & digital
Reviews