… an amalgam of noise, rhythms, textures, voice and snippets… — The New York City Jazz Record, USA

A new performance and recording project by Martin Tétreault and Susanna Hood, Tortues vapeur is a long-awaited collaboration between two long-time friends who bring the tools and skills of their unique interdisciplinary practices to a playground of their own making. “Like two ageless kids, we create our own garage-band atmosphere where neither of us have fixed roles in relation to the various toys and instruments at our disposal.” As if travelling across a radio-dial, Susanna and Martin tune to each other through frequencies from the past. They combine and layer found materials (extracts of popular songs and tunes from the last sixty years) with vocal and electronic noises, rhythms and textures. Through deconstruction and reconstruction, they create a sonic landscape tinged with nostalgia, but existing somewhere out of time.