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Join NYKY Ensemble exploring the vivid colours of just intonation.

SibA doctoral researcher Marc Sabat (DocMus Applied Study) is a Berlin-based Ukrainian-Canadian composer and violinist who has been working with rational or just intonation (JI) for many years, making music for solo instruments, chamber formations, orchestras, and electronic instruments. His research project is called ”Chords, melodies: a look at harmony by numbers”, focussing on developing useful tools for musicians and composers working with fine differences of intonation.

In this project, Sabat teaches the NYKY Ensemble students various strategies and approaches to tuning and colouring microtonal harmonies by ear. In addition, guest composer-performer and SibA doctoral researcher Sebastian Dumitrescu on Lumatone joins a small orchestra of acoustic instruments to realise Marc Sabat’s ”Flows from the Tree”, a new, ongoing work for open instrumentation based on an 81-tone pitch gamut derived from the row of harmonic partials. The concert is rounded out with classic JI works from American pioneers Pauline Oliveros and James Tenney, among others.

Programme

Pauline Oliveros: The Greeting from Sonic Meditations (1971)

Pauline Oliveros: The Tuning Meditation (1971/2008)

James Tenney: Swell Piece(s) No. 1, 2, 3 from Postal Pieces (1965–1971)

Pauline Oliveros: Heart of Tones (1999)

James Tenney: Critical Band (1988/2000)

Elsie Hamilton: Finnish Folk Songs (ca. 1920), first performance
arrangement by Marc Sabat after a transcription by Rebecca Lane and Thomas Nicholson

Intermission

Marc Sabat: Flows from “The Tree” (2023–, ongoing)
SKY — FALL — 47 CLOUDS

Performers

NYKY Ensemble
Augustin Dessarps, conductor
Marta Cerina, flute and alto flute
Soniya Rakhmatullina, oboe and english horn
Mikko Raasakka, clarinet, basset horn, and bass clarinet
Joni Taskinen, trombone
Sebastian Dumitrescu, lumatone
Maaria Pulakka, harp
Clara Lacout, violin
Venla Saavalainen, violin
Julie Svasinova, viola
Marc Sabat, music coaching, composer, and violin

Jon-Patrik Kuhlefelt, sound engineer
Jukka Kolimaa, lighting designer
Libero Mureddu, intendent of the NYKY Ensemble
Jaakko Kilpeläinen, producer of the NYKY Ensemble

NYKY Ensemble 

NYKY Ensemble is a contemporary music group of Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy, which serves as a forum for contemporary music projects and provides perspectives on the trends and techniques of our time, such as expanded playing techniques, live electronics, microtonality, minimalism or cross-disciplinary artistic cooperation. The composition of the ensemble depends on the pieces to be presented at any given time, and the visiting supervisor in each concert period is a musician or ensemble specialising in contemporary music.

More information about NYKY ensemble

Additional information: Jaakko Kilpeläinen, jaakko.kilpelainen@uniarts.fi