Gilles Gobeil

Gilles Gobeil (born September 27, 1954) is an electroacoustic music composer from Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada, and currently living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Gobeil received his musical education at the Université de Montréal (Mmus in Composition). Gobeil is professor for music theory at the Cégep de Drummondville and was guest professor for electro-acoustics at the Université de Montréal and at the Conservatoire de Montréal.

His works have been performed in concerts throughout Canada and abroad. Gobeil is a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and co-founder of the concert organization Réseaux des Arts Médiatiques, an organization for the production of media arts events. Gobeil is known for his industrial soundscapes and the incorporation of live instruments (in particular the ondes martenot) deep within the electroacoustic medium.

Gobeil has received numerous scholarships and commissions from institutes and festivals including ZKM Karlsruhe, GRM Paris, Ars Electronica Linz, ICMC Beijing, and the Banff Center, and his works have won many awards. His approach is similar to the “cinema pour l’oreille” (cinema for the ear), and in turn would like to “donner à voir” (lead to seeing) by means of sound. (1984).

Recordings

Les lointains (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 15134, 2015) Trois songes (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0892, 2008) Trilogie d’ondes with [Suzanne Binet-Audet] (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0576, 2005) Le contrat with [René Lussier] (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0372, 2003) … dans le silence de la nuit… (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0155, 2001) La mécanique des ruptures (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9421, 1994)

List of works

Associations libres (1990), electric guitar, and tape Le contrat (1996–2003) Derrière la porte la plus éloignée (1998) Éclats de perle (2002) Entre les deux rives du printemps (2006) Là où vont les nuages (1990–91), ondes Martenot, interactive system, and tape Nous sommes heureux de (1992) Nuit cendre (1995) Ombres, espaces, silences (2005) La perle et l'oubli (1999–2002), ondes Martenot, and tape Point de passage (1997) Projet Proust (1995, 2001) Rivage (1986) Soledad (1998, 2000), guitar, and tape Traces (1985) Le vertige inconnu (1993–94) La ville machine (1992) Voix blanche (1988–89), ondes Martenot, and tape