kevin drumm / martin tétreault “particles and smears” compact disc

• 4:16
  
• 4:17
  
• 2:19
  
• 7:36
  
• 5:36
  
• 1:42
  
• 4:04
  
• 4:09
  
• 3:11
  
• 4:07
  
• 3:44
  
• 4:30
  
• 4:38
  
• 4:53

erik m / martin tetreault / otomo yoshihide “trace cuts” compact disc

• trace cut 1 (7:03)
  
• trace cut 2 (5:28)
  
• trace cut 3 (19:20)
  
• trace cut 4 (5:24)

martin tétreault / xavier charles / pierre tanguay “le dernier disque de jazz du xxème siècle” long playing record

• 1900-1910 racines - blues grinchement de disque
  
• 1910-1920 ragtime scott joplin très usé
  
• 1920-1930 swing un disque de béchet
  
• 1930-1940 ballade des balais et de la poussière
  
• 1940-1950 bebop charlie parker
  
• 1950-1960 hard-bop_(canal gauche) cool jazz_(canal droit) de l'orgue pour les deux
  
• 1960-1970 free jazz tony williams lifetime
  
• 1970-1980 fusion funk fuzz
  
• 1980-1990 coupé/collé zorn
  
• 1990-2000 acid jazz electronique

textile press release...

martin tetreault / xavier charles and pierre tanguay : "le dernier disque de jazz du xxème siècle" xavier charles hes working with many different people and style of music (improvised music, noisy, electroacoustic, sound poetry) : martin tetreault, the ex, pierre berthet, etage 34, axel dörner, jacques di donato, jérôme jeanmart, john butcher, jean pallandre, marc pichelin, cris cutler, martine altenburger, frédéric le junter, camel zekri, emmanuelle pellegrini, michel doneda, frédéric blondys hes now working on a system including clarinet, prepared bass, and vibrating speakers with different collectivs : kristoff k.roll, ossatura, la flibusteshe also organizes «densités» a new music festival in verdun . martin tetreault the first martin tetreault vinyle release. martin tétreault, an internationally-renowned montreal dj and improviser, originally came from the milieu of the visual arts. his path has been marked out by various productions on compact disc and live performances with a range of collaborators: diane labrosse, rené lussier, jean derome, michel f. côté, i8u, otomo yoshihide, kevin drumm, xavier charles, ikue mori, and many more. he has abandoned the musical citation that he had been using in his work since he began in 1985 and now explores the intrinsic qualities of the turntable: the sound of the motor, of interference, and so on. he also uses needles, prepared surfaces (with thanks to john cage), and small electronic instruments. the bruitiste approach of remaining analogical has allowed him to leave behind the question but what about royalties? and to get himself invited to electronic-music events! when he feels the need for a break from music, he goes back to the visual arts, where he sands, scrapes, cuts up books and magazines, and so on. pierre tanguay a percussionist, composer and inveterate inventor, pierre tanguay’s music shows the wide range of his experience in ancient and contemporary music, jazz, and music for dance, theatre and cinema. born in quebec city in 1957, he has devoted himself to music full-time since 1978. he plays with some twenty established groups, such as dangereux zhoms, évidence, castor et compagnie and karen young, and is the founder of strada, midi tapant and derome tanguay danse. he has produced five albums and collaborated closely on some fifty others, and has more than twenty compositions for dance (lucie grégoire, andrew harwood, irène stamou and francine gagné) and a number for theatre and film (allan booth, imago and roberto ariganello) to his credit. he regularly tours throughout canada and europe.

“ohmix” compact disc

• ralf wehowsky - gesichte (8:31)
  
• martin tétreault - bloc de vitesse brune avec 2 trous (2:43)
  
• christian calon - aiguiser l'ouïe (7:45)
  
• terre thaemlitz - transit(ional edit) (9:00)
  
• john oswald - ohmigone (3:07)
  
• john oswald - ridge (4:03)
  
• diane labrosse - curieux mélange pour amateurs auditifs de la jeune radio (9:09)
  
• david kristian - ohmite (5:38)
  
• alexandre st-onge - i-i (9:52)

avatar press release...

ohmix a work by: artistes variés to publicize the audio collection accumulated by ohm editions between 1993 and 1998, avatar asked eight composers to extract, transform and remix bits and entire pieces whatever way they wanted. the result is obviously one of very different approaches and varied listening experiences. through ohmix, avatar, as the name of the centre indicates, metamorphoses, changes itself and rematerializes with new pieces. from ralf wehowsky to alexandre st-onge, each reading is a taking-aim, an angle of attack, a posture that comes across like a meeting, a rendezvous of sound. the interweavings are amplified sharings, interpretations enriched by the fine-tuning of each sound sensibility. ohmix is a weaving of related but dispersed trends. for several years, a number of artists have been creating a new genre by using the sounds of other artists for their own creations and fishing from assorted discs to reconstruct them into a music that is unprecedented. ohmix sees itself as contributing to the history of avatar and of ohm editions. ohmix was broadcast in november 2001 on the french-language radio service of the cbc, la chaîne culturelle, on le navire night, a program produced by hélène prévost.