Le 22 juillet 2008, Nicolas Bernier, Hélène Prévost et Pierre-Yves Martel seront au resto-bar Le Cagibi dans le cadre de la série dédiée aux musiques créatives Mardi spaghetti.

Pierre-Yves Martel sera en concert le 6 juillet 2008 au Petro-Canada Hall (19h) dans le cadre du 14^e Sound Symposium, à St John’s (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador). Il y présentera son projet Engagement & Confrontation, à la contrebasse et viole de gambe préparées.

… 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…

Le 25 juin 2008 Philippe Lauzier, Pierre-Yves Martel, Thom Gossage et Kim Myhr seront en concert au Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill, à Montréal.

Pierre-Yves Martel fera partie du concert La Traversée miraculeuse donné le 20 juin 2008 (au Hangar 16 des Quais du Vieux-Port) dans le cadre du festival Montréal Baroque. Ce concert met en vedette Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer, Meredith Hall (soprano), Lisa Ornstein (fiddle québécois), David Greenberg, fiddle néo-écossais) et La Nef.

Le 19 juin 2008 à L’OFF Festival de Jazz de Montréal: l’ensemble Cantouque de Joël Prenovault (avec Bernard Falaise, Marianne Trudel, Pierre Tanguay) sera au Lion d’Or, à 20h. Puis, le Sextuor de Isaiah Ceccarelli (avec Pierre Cartier, Josée Lalonde, Philippe Lauzier, Franck Lozano, Pierre-Yves Martel) sera au Dièse onze, à 22h.