Gilles Gobeil
Gilles Gobeil 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. 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, Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre and co-founder of the concert organization Réseaux des Arts Médiatiques, an organization for the production of media arts events.
His sound-world contains sounds that emulate crash of a door, machine rhythms, fire-alarm bells, machine-gun like sounds, smashing glass, even helicopter rotors, the march of troops, distant water gushing from a broken main. Often these appear in small snatches, in little rhythmic kernels. Gobeil is known for his industrial soundscapes and the incorporation of live instruments 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”, and in turn would like to “donner à voir” by means of sound.
Awards and honors
Laureate on the international scene
Métamorphoses Biennal Acousmatic Composition Competition ;- CIMESP ; Ciber@rt ;
- Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition ;
- Stockholm Electronic Arts Award ; Ars Electronica, Linz ;
- Luigi Russolo International Competition, Varese ;
- Newcomp Computer Music Competition ; and
- Brock University Tape Music Competition, St Catharines.
Other honors in national competitions
Grand Prize from SOCAN ; Robert Fleming Prize from the Canadian Music Council; Composition Award from PROCAN, currently SDE Canada.Premier Prix and Prix du public in the second international Electroacoustic Music Competition of São Paulo, for his work ''Nuit cendre.''Recordings
Les lointains Trois songes Trilogie d’ondes with Le contrat with … dans le silence de la nuit…- ''La mécanique des ruptures''
List of works
Associations libres, electric guitar, and tapeLe contrat Derrière la porte la plus éloignéeÉclats de perle Entre les deux rives du printemps Là où vont les nuages
, ondes Martenot, interactive system, and tapeNous sommes heureux de
Nuit cendre Ombres, espaces, silences
La perle et l'oubli, ondes Martenot, and tapePoint de passage Projet Proust Rivage Soledad, guitar, and tapeTraces Le vertige inconnu La ville machine Voix blanche, ondes Martenot, and tape