Martin Tétreault: Snipettes! (CD): description

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Snipettes!

Martin Tétreault

Snipettes!

Ambiances Magnétiques | AM 150 | 2007

Reissue of ARM 02.

CD 25.00 CAD

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Composer: Martin Tétreault

Snipettes! and Morceaux choisis were first released in 1992 as a limited-edition cassette, in a run of 250 numbered copies (today out of print), Archives Magnétiques (ARM 02)

Snipettes! 1991-1992. It had already been two years since the release of Des pas et des mois (AM 017 CD). Given the surprise success of that first CD, I was looking for a way to make another studio work with the help of precious acolytes. The experience with René Lussier, Michel F Côté & Co. had been so stimulating, I wanted to push my explorations further down that path. But production costs, way too high at the time, forced me to abandon this idea early on. And so I began to hunt for a virtual back-up band. What I was mostly looking for was a rhythm section with whom I could perform various kinds of solos by borrowing from techniques I had previously developed on the turntable. After numerous auditions, I finally selected Eddie Osborne, Baldwin Organ & Bongos (Audio Fidelity asfd 5974). It was the perfect record: the instrumentation was simple - organ and percussion - and the songbook (popular music) easy to recognize. And as a bonus, I still had a soft spot for the ballroom melodies I had featured on Des Pas et des Mois (AM 017 CD). So I made this LP my own, at a time when the sampling issue was heatedly debated. It was the early ‘90s. After a few work-outs with this new invisible orchestra, the idea came to me of pairing this record of instrumental popular music with what seemed to me its complete opposite: contemporary music and musique concrète. A wonderful musical fantasy we rarely get the chance to witness, either on record or on stage The collaboration took place side by side, between two record players (an automatic Garrard and a belt-driven Thorens) and a careful selection of instrumental records of serious music, easy to find at ridiculously low prices back in the ‘80s. Of course, it was all second-hand. Tracks 2 through 10 present the fruits of this historical meeting. Eddie Osborne is featured on all tracks but track 4.

Morceaux choisis 1984-1986. As its title implies, Morceaux choisis (Selected Pieces) is a collection of various experimental works recorded between 1984 and 1986. Back then, I had no knowledge of recording and editing techniques. I was using reel-to-reel tape recorders acquired here and there without paying attention to their condition. I was also salvaging pre-recorded magnetic tape bougth the same way. You could say that it was a very “low-tech” recycling operation. This reissue retains all the original awkwardness. The only change I made happens in track 23 _Fear No. 3, where the spoken fragment «… d’arrêter votre magnétophone…» (“… to stop your tape player…”) has become «… votre lecteur de disque compact…» (“… your CD player…”), a necessary adjustment for this CD reissue. —Martin Tétreault

1

Évocation historique

1m25s
2

Gagarine, USS Enterprise and a cosmic peddler

4m32s
3

Bozetti frénétique

1m36s
4

Spock commente

10s
5

Au sud de la frontiere: déserts

2m22s
6

Blues des déserts en feu

2m52s
7

Étude perfide

2m09s
8

Randonnée

1m33s
9

Data queue

1m10s
10

Sainte-Arcana

2m53s
11

Évocation cosmique

1m21s
12

Peur no 1

50s
13

Évocation préhistorique

40s
14

La taille du disque

3m21s
15

Aiguille d’os

3m43s
16

Bien-être extra-ordinaire

2m05s
17

Peur no 2

08s
18

Placébo (double-aveugle)

1m11s
19

Âmes animées

1m37s
20

Fierté

2m35s
21

Concret et ludique

47s
22

The political Kurtzweil on the market

3m24s
23

Peur no 3

31m26s

Total duration

73m50s

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Martin Tétreault: Snipettes! (CD): description

Prices are in Canadian dollars — 1.00 CAD ~ 0.94 USA ~ 0.74 EUR ~ 0.61 GBP ~ 79.6 JPY ~ 1.5 AUD ~ 5.51 DKK ~ 5.91 NOK ~ 6.93 SEK — and include handling, shipping and applicable taxes.


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