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Isaac Martin
About Me
ten strings for sound - time - space
Isaac de Martin graduated in Jazz at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto with
Sandro Gibellini, Pietro Tonolo, Gianluca Carollo, Enrico Merlin. Continuous training in
Music (Electronics) with Valerio Murat. He has been studying for years classical guitar
with Maestro Angelo Amato in Venice, nurturing and pursuing the ideal of the guitar as an
instrument sounding shy but with infinite expressive potential. Through its timbres and
colors, ten string Guitar is better able to reflect the inner emotions which he deals with
every day life.
The hot Jazz of the Twenties seduced Isaac so much that, together with the shaman and
pianist Franz Falanga, they founded Adovabadàn Jazz Band, still active in Italy and
abroad. Given that music is, of human languages, the most widespread and powerful
communicator, he look for and find confirmation of this with the laboratory of Art and
Communication Sound Illustrators, which he co-founded with musicians and creatives
in Europe (Treviso, Helsinki, Berlin), resulting in the spreading of our concept over the old
continent.
Isaac regularly collaborates with Fabrica, Benetton's communication research center.
Further experiences include music composed for short and feature movies: in 2013 he
was invited as resident composer in Moscow to compose and arrange music that was
played and recorded at MOS Film Studios by the National Russian Symphony Cinema
Orchestra conducted by Sergey Skripka.
In 2014 Isaac composed and performed (so far) music for Cinema and Theater as
L'Albero Storto (among with the actor Beppe Casales and the Choir Valcavasia, Treviso),
In Trincea (with Michele di Giacomo, Milano), Sogni Bisogni e Altre Virtú (performed with
Sound Illustrators and written by Gino Tonello, Padova), D'Amore e Decrescita (with
Francesco Niccolini for Vacanze dell' Anima Festival), In Guerra (a feature movie by
Davide Sibaldi, Milano), Mamihlapinatapai (movie by Victor Marvin, Moscow).
Further interactive installation at UdK (Universität der Künste) in Berlin for the production
of Klang-Zeit-Ort 2014.
Fascinated by the power of music, the craft of sound, and the ability enthralling the
vibration of an instrument to draw away, I love to travel inside and outside myself, within
and out of the borders
My Jazz Story
I love jazz because it is a vocabulary of behaviors to scheme in life. I was first exposed to jazz when I was 16 by shaman pianist Franz Falanga. The best show I ever attended was the Eivind Aarset, Michele Rabbia, Stefano Battaglia trio (Roma, 2011). The first jazz record I bought was a Jazz collection.