Glass mastered CD, edition of 500, with insert and notes by the composer.

Marc Sabat's Gisoeffo 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 music theorists such as Zarlino.

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

1. viola & cello
2. voices, (+violin), viola & cello
3. (+harp), organ, violin, viola & cello
4. (+guitar), harp, organ, violin
5. guitar, harp, organ, voices, violin, (+viola & cello)
6. bass flute, guitar, harp, organ, voices, violin, viola & cello
7. [-bass flute], guitar, harp, viola & cello
8. (+bass flute), [-guitar], organ, voices
9. [-flute], (+guitar), organ

(instrument enters midway through a cycle)
[instrument ends midway through a cycle]