Martin Tétreault (born 1957 in
Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec
Saint-Jean-Baptiste is a municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, a Canadian province. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 3,191. It is located within La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality in a valley betwe ...
, Canada) is a
free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved. The term can refer to both a technique (employed by any musician in any genre) and as a recognizable genre in its ...
musician and visual artist. Often using the
turntable
A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...
as the basis for his experimental music, he has over 60 releases, featuring him solo or in collaborations with people such as
Kevin Drumm
Kevin Drumm (born 1970) is an experimental musician based in Chicago, United States.
Biography
Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work ...
and
Otomo Yoshihide
is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly plays guitar, turntables, and electronics.
He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the experimental rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked in ...
.
[Fortier 2013.]
References
Further reading
*Fortier, Sylvain.
Finalement, je me suis fait avoir… / Clearly, I’ve been had…: Entrevue avec Martin Tétreault" ''eContact! 14.3 — Turntablism'' (January 2013). Montréal:
CEC.
*Weissenbrunner, Karin.
Experimental Turntablism: Historical overview of experiments with record players / records — or Scratches from Second-Hand Technology" ''eContact! 14.3 — Turntablism'' (January 2013). Montréal:
CEC.
External links
Martin Tétreaultat
Discogs
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Martin Tétreaulton the DAME CD label (Montréal)]
1957 births
Canadian DJs
Musicians from Quebec
French Quebecers
Living people
Free improvisation
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