Gilles Gobeil

Canadian electro-acoustician Gilles Gobeil is among the important composers from the Montreal label Empreintes DIGITALes. His functions display an obsession with devices and severe sonic textures: sensitive soundscapes blown to smithereens with the thunderous “bang!” of the door slamming shut. Much less prolific simply because labelmates Robert Normandeau and Yves Daoust, he provides nonetheless a far more personal design, despite the fact that some may state his output is normally a little bit unidimensional. Blessed in Sorel (Quebec, Canada) in 1954, Gobeil examined music on the Université de Montreal, where he gained an M.A. in structure in 1986. He was chosen for residencies in the Groupe de Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges (France, 1991), the Groupe de Recherche Musicale (France, 1993), as well as the Banff Center for Arts (Canada, 1993 and 1995). He offers won awards at many worldwide contests, including Ars Electronica and Bourges. In the past due ’90s he co-founded Réseaux, a Montreal-based corporation focused on promote electro-acoustic music concerts. His 1st Compact disc, La Mécanique des Ruptures, premiered in 1994 by Empreintes DIGITALes. The composer’s design was instantly recognizable: industrial noises, sufficient gestures, violent contrasts. Another Compact disc, …Dans le Silence de la Nuit…, arrived in 2001.