Learn more about our home ringtone composer:
Name: Martin PlantePlace of birth: Paris, France
Occupation: Pianist and ringtone composer
Listens to: Vintage gogo music from the fifties
Favorite classical composer: Franz Liszt
Previous life: Keyboards in the former Canadian rock band Bundock
Influences: A professional soprano mother and a violinist father
Fueled by classical influences from his parents and by his generation's pop music,
Martin was the keyboardist of the Canadian band Bundock for four years, but he also
played for top classical ballet teachers including Daniel Sellier, from L'opéra de Paris
and New-Yorker David Howard. Martin performs regularly at piano bars
and cocktails in Montreal and, in February 2001, he started designing the first fully original
line of cell phone ringtones, available exclusively on this site.
Try Martin's most recent original ringtone series
"A unique ringing sound"
I asked Martin to start writing original ringtones for this site in order to provide
cell phone users with melodies not seen elsewhere and that are truly adapted to ringtones. Not surprisingly,
Martin's ringtones are by far the most popular downloads on this site. Most ringtones currently
available on the Net are excerpts from pop-music, which might make good hits but not necessarily good ringtones -
one reason for that is most ringtone engines have limited musical features.
In addition to that, using an original ringtone makes you sound distinctive.
Martin designs his ringtones with the user's pleasure in mind: "I try to do melodies that are addictive and intriguing enough to capture the crowd's attention, so that colleagues hearing your phone ringing may think: 'Ha... nice melody, what is it?', and even remember it throughout the day."
You are welcome to say hello, or send comments on ringtones to Martin.
