Born in 1979 in Vanier, Ontario, Pierre-Yves Martel made music an integral part of his life when he taught himself electric bass during high school. While still a teenager he worked as a co-op student in a recording studio, played in rock bands that focused on improvisation, and attended the Summer Performance program at the Berklee College of Music. It was at Berklee that he discovered jazz. It was in his last year of university that he discovered the viola da gamba. Although interested in performance practice, it was first and foremost the instrument’s timbre that captivated him. Martel sensed an untapped potential for reinventing the instrument in a modern context with the goal of rethinking and reinterpreting the works of great composers in an improvised setting.
He created the chamber orchestra Ensemble Quartetski, with the goal of rethinking and reinterpreting the works of great composers in an improvised setting. While staying true to the spirit of the composers, the ensemble used the compositions as laboratories for sonic experimentation. The result was a new kind of chamber music, one that mixed different traditions, styles, and approaches. The group has created 12 programs, including Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Bartók’s Mikrokosmos, John Cage works and Prokofiev’s Fugitive Visions, all arranged by Martel for the ensemble. He plays viola da gamba soprano for his last issue "Mer bleue".
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Martel on pedal steel, piano, synthesizer and sampled strings
et à écouter aussi "weird studies"
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