Nicolas Bernier, Hélène Prévost}, and Pierre-Yves Martel will be at Le Cagibi on Tuesday July 22, 2008 as part of the Mardi spaghetti weekly series for creative music.

Pierre-Yves Martel will be in concert on July 6, 2008 at Petro-Canada Hall (7 pm) as part of the 14th Sound Symposium in St John’s (Newfoundland and Labrador). He will present his project Engagement & Confrontation, playing double bass & viola da gamba.

… The evening started off with Philippe Lauzier and Pierre-Yves Martel of Quartetski, turntablist Martin Tétreault and Norwegian guitarist Kim Myhr in three quiet and textural improvisations. The set started with Lauzier playing his alto saxophone with a plunger mute affixed on his bell, creating a muffled and distant sound. The blend of Tétreault’s turntables, Myhr’s guitar effects and Martel’s viola da gamba was impressive. It was difficult to determine where the sounds were coming from. Martel, unamplified, would bow furiously, unleashing streams of harmonics, and even thump his bow against the body of the instrument. Myhr and Lauzier used their instruments more as resonators for external objects and vocalizations. Myhr many times moved a spinning toy across the body of his classical guitar, which he alternately played lying flat on his lap or in normal playing position. Lauzier also played bass clarinet, emphasizing the overtones of the instrument, and pulled out a plastic tube through which he circular breathed. At that moment, with Lauzier playing the tube, the whole group combined to sound like a massive vacuum cleaner, or that noisy radiator from down the hall — a sound full of airy noise, feedback and harmonics…

On June 25, 2008 Philippe Lauzier, Pierre-Yves Martel, Thom Gossage, and Kim Myhr will be in concert at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill in Montréal.

Pierre-Yves Martel will take part in the concert La Traversée miraculeuse given on June 20, 2008 (at Hangar 16, Quays of the Old Port) as part of the Montréal Baroque festival. This concert stars Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer, Meredith Hall (soprano), Lisa Ornstein (Quebecois fiddle), David Greenberg (New Scottish fiddle), and La Nef.

On June 19, 2008 at L’OFF Festival de Jazz de Montréal: Joël Prenovault’s Cantouque ensemble (with Bernard Falaise, Marianne Trudel, Pierre Tanguay) will be at Lion d’Or at 8 pm. Then, Isaiah Ceccarelli’s sextet (with Pierre Cartier, Josée Lalonde, Philippe Lauzier, Franck Lozano, Pierre-Yves Martel) will be at Dièse onze at 10 pm.