Montreal Musique Actuelle turntablist Martin Tetreault and sound artist Erick d' Orion created this project as a tribute to the original explorers of electronic music and musique concrete -- GRM, Stockhausen, Henry, Oram, Schaeffer, &c. -- using historic sound recordings and new sources, presenting this incredible concert live at Au Mois in Quebec.
"In June 2016, Martin Tetreault and erick d'Orion published an album on the label Kohlenstoff Records entitled 1948. This project was a tribute to "old electronic music", the result of improvisations exploiting concrete music. Using on the one hand as a source of recordings dating from the early stages of GRM and electronic and concrete music in general (Stockhausen, Henry, Oram, Schaeffer, etc.), on the other hand by creating disc imprints and manipulating The material / sound, the duo created a series of improvisations in a sort of "mise en abime historique".
The album Avant is the continuation of this project. The album was recorded live at the Mois Multi festival on February 11, 2017 in Quebec City. The two artists have participated in several recordings and concerts in common for nearly 20 years: the Estrapade album with Otomo Yoshihide and a_dontigny, published in 2004, is a good example, as is the series of live recordings available on The site www.notype.com. Since 2016 however, the two creators form a duo that has presented a few concerts and two publications. Before is the latest proposal from Tetreault and Orion. Avant is a series of noisy pieces where the sound textures build a frame of subtlety, almost narrative at times. It is a music of gestures, movement."-Tour de Bras