Eyal Hareuveni (Percorsimusicali) on Suite by Marco Fusi and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

Marco Fusi is an Italian violinist and violist, a researcher in music performance, and a passionate advocate for the music of our time. His PhD from the University of Antwerp focused on the performance practice of Giacinto Scelsi’s works for string instruments. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Artistic Research at HEMU Lausanne and an Associate Researcher at the Orpheus Instituut in Ghent.

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay is a Québécois composer, bass guitarist, and electroacoustic musician, now residing in Huddersfield, where he teaches composition and improvisation at the University of Huddersfield.

Suite is a six-movement “Baroque encounter,” or a “first dance,” as the Bead label calls it, that documents the first-ever free improvised meeting between Fusi, playing violin and viola d’amore, and Tremblay, playing bass guitar and electronics, at the University of Huddersfield in November 2023. Fusi performed Tremblay’s composition “Encounter 1.4“, with Tremblay on his album Wired Resonances (Huddersfield Contemporary, 2025). The cover artwork is by painter Sebastien Robinson, who also did the cover artwork for Fusi’s collection of American composer Evan Johnson’s compositions, Dust Book (another timbre, 2025).

This meeting explores and investigates electroacoustic resonances and timbres of Fusi’s string instruments and Tremblay’s effects-laden bass and electronics with their static noise, as they unfold across space, stirred by sonic memories and shifting emotional states. Obviously, such an elaborate, complex dance demands deep listening for the distinct sonic languages, palettes, and gestures. But the immediate, thoughtfu, and always inventive abstraction of these gestures transforms them into coherent yet unpredictable and enigmatic statements, without losing their urgent sense of discovery. It also suggests that contemporary, extended bowing techniques may integrate organically and enrich the art of the moment, blurring the distinction between free music and avant-garde, contemporary music.