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Gilles Gobeil (Sorel, Québec, 1954) • residence: Berlin, Germany • composer
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Robin Minard: Gallery Show, Concert in MontréalRobin Minard, ex-member of Sonde, is back in Montréal after 20 years of absence! He will present Sons sur papier, a retrospective of several sound installations, at Oboro from April 12 to May 10, 2008. He will also diffuse 3 acousmatic works as part of the Pulsar *3 series on April 14, 2008 at the Planétarium de Montréal. The opening feature of this concert is Nicolas Bernier’s premiere of Les chambres de l’atelier. Note that at this occasion co-artistic directors of Réseaux, Jean-François Denis, Gilles Gobeil, and Robert Normandeau, are “passing the torch” to Nicolas Bernier, versatile and prolific young composer…
Posted April 9, 2008 in Live Events |8935|
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Canadians on DEGEM WebRadioThe DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) has hosted a number of Canadian electroacoustic composers over the years such as: Robin Minard, Gordon Monahan, Christian Calon, Francis Dhomont, and Robert Normandeau. The DEGEM and ZKM propose a WebRadio programme which features works composed by these past guest artists as well as by the newest Canadian guest, Gilles Gobeil, in Berlin since January 2008. The Programme B is under section “Berichte/Features.”
Posted February 22, 2008 in What’s New |8887|
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Trois songes by Gobeil in UK, Germany
In addition to the presentation of the complete DVD-Audio Trois songes during the GEMdays event in Huddersfield (England, UK), Gilles Gobeil will present his piece Le miroir triste on January 25, 2008 as part of the Ultraschall festival in Berlin (Germany).
Posted January 22, 2008 in Live Events |8863|
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Québécois and Canadians in Andalucía, SpainThe V Electroacoustic Miniatures International Contest presented by the Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía (Spain) has rewarded Dominic Thibault for his piece Nuit noire, nuit grise. Of the 13 finalists, 4 other are Québécois or Canadians: David Berezan, James Duhamel, Thierry Gauthier, and Gilles Gobeil.
Posted January 21, 2008 in What’s New |8860|
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GEMdays Festival: Adkins, Gobeil, Pohu, TremblayThe GEMdays Festival will take place from January 24 to 27, 2008 at the University of Huddersfield (UK). Mathew Adkins, Gilles Gobeil, Sylvain Pohu, and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay are some of the guest composers.
Posted January 18, 2008 in Live Events |8858|
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BEAST Concerts Curated by Gobeil, Harrison, Hindmarch, LilliosGilles Gobeil, Jonty Harrison, David Hindmarch, and Elainie Lillios will successively curate an evening concert during the next BEAST series. The event will take place on January 9 - 12, 2008 at the George Cadbury Hall, University of Birmingham (England, UK).
Posted December 14, 2007 in Live Events |8843|
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Akousma (4): Barrett, Azguime, Radford, Gobeil… in MontréalContinuation of the Rien à voir series, the Akousma (4) mini-festival presents electroacoustic music in its many forms on November 28 to December 1, 2007 at the Monument-National in Montréal. Will perform: Miguel Azguime, Natasha Barrett, Nicolas Bernier, Georges Forget, Gilles Gobeil, Laurie Radford, Robert Normandeau, and the winners of the Hugh Le Caine Award of the 2007 SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers. A unique event, in Montréal. Not to be missed!
Posted November 16, 2007 in Live Events |8816|
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Big Names at Novars in Manchester, UKAs you may know the piece Novars by Francis Dhomont will be presented as part of the MANTIS festival during the concert launch of the University of Manchester’s Studio Novars (UK). But that’s not all! This event also features the works of Martin Bédard, Nicolas Bernier, Ludger Brümmer, Marcelle Deschênes, Gilles Gobeil, Denis Smalley, Hans Tutschku, Hildegard Westerkamp, Trevor Wishart, and David Berezan and Jonty Harrison who will each world premiere a new piece… In short, this event is not to be missed and it takes place from November 2 to 4, 2007.
Posted October 23, 2007 in Live Events |8798|
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The 2007 CIMESP Laureates, BrazilThe 7th International Electroacoustic Music Contest of São Paulo (VII CIMESP 2007) received works of 208 composers from 33 countries! The international jury formed by Christian Calon, Gilles Gobeil, Flo Menezes and João Pedro Oliveira has awarded, amongst others, Liaisons mécaniques by Nicolas Bernier (Second Prize ex-æquo) and honorable mentions were given to 7 works, including those of Elizabeth Anderson, António Ferreira, Hans Tutschku…Premières traces du Choucas by Francis Dhomont won the Public Prize. Were also announced the selected works for the upcoming 7th International Biennial for Electroacoustic Music of São Paulo (VII BIMESP 2008) in the fall of 2008. They include: Last Thoughts Before Silence by Mathew Adkins, scènes/rendez-vous by Pete Stollery, Kaleidoscope: Arcade by Peter Batchelor, When I was Wood by Stephan Dunkelman.
Posted September 6, 2007 in What’s New |8767|
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empreintes DIGITALes Featured on France vivace’s Électrain de nuit![]()
The 3rd part of June 18, 2007 radio programme Électrain de nuit — broadcasted on France vivace (Radio France) and hosted by Christian Zanesi and David Jisse — will be dedicated to label empreintes DIGITALes. The music from the most recent releases by Mathew Adkins, Darren Copeland, Marcelle Deschênes, Gilles Gobeil, and Adrian Moore will be on air on Monday morning June 18 from 1 am to 4 am.
Posted May 31, 2007 in What’s New |8704|
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Gobeil, Thibault Immersed at SAT, MontréalGilles Gobeil and Alain Thibault will be at the the centre of the evening “Dedans/dehors” about immersive music. In the second half of the event, the 2 guest composers will discuss about their esthetic, formal and philosophic concerns; Louis Dufort will be the moderator. This lecture will be followed by a concert given by Gilles Gobeil and Alain Thibault. Both who will share the stage with Joël Beauchamp, Pierre-Marc Beaudoin, and Jean-François Blouin. This audio immersive event wil take place on May 14, 2007 at SAT in Montréal (and it’s free…).
Posted May 4, 2007 in Live Events |8665|
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Masterclass by lanza in Argentinaalcides lanza will be in Rosario (Argentina) on May 5 to 8, 2007 to present a masterclass of Canadian-Argentinian electroacoustic music. The programme notably includes works by Wende Bartley, Gilles Gobeil, and John Oliver. Posted April 27, 2007 in What’s New |8653|
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Gobeil, Normandeau, Oliver Live in TorontoNew Music Concerts will present its second “Rien à voir” concert on January 13, 2007 at the Isabel Bader Theatre (Toronto, Canada). The concert will feature the works Ombres, espaces, silences… by Gilles Gobeil, an excerpt of Nylong Symphony by John Oliver, Palimpseste by Robert Normandeau, and Fluke Sound by Ann Southam. Two seminal works for tape by György Ligeti, Artikulation and Glissandi, will also be presented.
Posted December 18, 2006 in Live Events |8549|
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trans_canada_release at the ZKM, KarlsruheThe 2-day event trans_canada_release at the ZKM is a follow-up of the 2005 festival “trans_canada: Tendenzen in Akusmatik und Soundscapes / Trends in Acousmatics and Soundscapes.” The evening of December 8, 2006 is dedicated to Gilles Gobeil. He will premiere Entre les deux rives du printemps and present Derrière la porte la plus éloignée…, Nuit cendre, and Le contrat (co-composed with René Lussier). The December 9 concert is a carte blanche to Robert Normandeau who will will premiere Kuppel, spatialize his works Chorus and Venture, as well as Premières traces du Choucas by Francis Dhomont, Topographie de la noirceur by Martin Bédard, and Machin Machine by Delphine Measroch.
Posted November 3, 2006 in Live Events |7797|
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Gobeil is part of A Festival for Radio Plays at the ZKM, KarlsruheGilles Gobeil will present a remixed multichannel version of Ombres, espaces, silences… as part of A Festival for Radio Plays on November 10, 2006 on the 40-loudspeaker dome of Kubus, at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe (Germany).
Posted November 3, 2006 in Live Events |7796|
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First Weekend of Soundings… in Edinburgh, UKThis first weekend of Soundings… has 4 concerts on October 27 to 29, 2006 at the Reid Concert Hall in Edinburgh (UK). On October 28 Pete Stollery will premiere scènes/rendez-vous, composed at the GRM studios, and spatialize the works … et ainsi de suite… by Jonty Harrison, and Espace / Escape by Francis Dhomont. Natasha Barrett, Gilles Gobeil, Elsa Justel, Denis Smalley, and Annette Vande Gorne are amongst the twenty composers performed.
Posted October 20, 2006 in Live Events |7793|
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Dhomont, Harrison… Invited to SardiniaLudger Brümmer, Kevin Austin, Flô Menezes, Francis Dhomont, Lucio Garau, and Jonty Harrison are the guest composers at the 3rd Festival di musica acusmatica, June 23 to 25, 2006 in Cagliari (Sardinia). On June 24, Dhomont will spatialize works by several Québec composers: Noyade en magma by Dominique Bassal, 13'13 pour voix défigurées by Monique Jean and Time Well / La fontaine du temps by Christian Calon, and a work by Brümmer. Voyage-miroir by Dhomont will be presented by another guest composer, Garau. Finally, several other composers from empreintes DIGITALes will also be featured: Gobeil, Moore, Alvarez, Smalley, Tutschku, Fort, Stollery, and Lillios!
Posted June 6, 2006 in Live Events |7714|
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Calon, Dhomont, Gobeil, Normandeau, Robert at Inventionen, BerlinInventionen 2006, Festival für aktuelle Musik presents concerts, installations and conferences on May 24-28, 2006 in Berlin. On May 25 Jocelyn Robert will present Resident of Unit D at Telas-Kubus (Klosterstraße 68-70, Berlin-Mitte). On May 28, at Villa Elisabeth (Invalidenstraße 3, Berlin-Mitte), Christian Calon, Robert Normandeau, Gilles Gobeil, and Francis Dhomont will respectively present their acousmatic work Time Well / La fontaine du temps, Tangram, Nuit cendre, and Voyage-miroir. During the whole festival, May 24-28, at DAAD Galerie (Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte), the works StrinGDberg and Éden by Robert Normandeau will be played every half-hour from 11am to 6pm; a conference by this DAAD resident composer is planned for May 24 at 6pm.
Posted May 8, 2006 in Live Events |7700|
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Gobeil & Young in GlasgowThe compositions Le vertige inconnu by Gilles Gobeil, and Pythagoras’s Curtain by John Young are amongst the selected works for a Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama concert, held on February 7, 2006 at the Academy Concert Hall (Glasgow, UK). On February 16, 2006, Young will give a talk about his compositional work at the RSAMD Guinness Room. Posted January 31, 2006 in Live Events |7651|
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2004-05 Opus Prizes’ Winners
The 9th Opus prizes winners were announced yesterday, January 22, 2006, in Montréal. The “Concert of the year - actuelle and electroacoustic musics” category goes to the Theresa Transistor quartet (Christian Bouchard, Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier, Monique Jean) while the “Album of the year - actuelle and electroacoustic musics” is Trilogie d’ondes by Gilles Gobeil.
Posted January 23, 2006 in What’s New |7642|
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Gobeil Returns from BrazilGilles Gobeil was a member of the jury of the 6th CIMESP 2005, São Paulo (Brazil). While in Brazil he gave a conference and a master class, and presented Ombres, espaces, silences… in concert at the UNASP (Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo) on October 31. Posted December 9, 2005 in What’s New |7626|
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electrocd.com at the Opus Prizes![]() ![]() ![]()
Many electrocd.com artists are nominated for the 9th Opus prizes, awarded since 1996 by the Conseil québécois de la musique. The concert Pulsar *1, unveiling the musics from Puzzles by Robert Normandeau, is nominated for “Concert of the year - actuelle and electroacoustic musics”, as well as the Theresa Transistor quartet (Christian Bouchard, Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier, Monique Jean), presented during the Akousma concert series. Estrapade by morceaux_de_machines, Trilogie d’ondes by Gilles Gobeil, and Puzzles by Robert Normandeau are nominated for “Album of the year - actuelle and electroacoustic musics”. Finally, Frank Zappa: 10 ans après (Frank Zappa: Ten Years After) directed by Réjean Beaucage, is nominated for “Book of the year”. Winners will be announced on January 22, 2006.
Posted December 8, 2005 in What’s New |7623|
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ZKM’s Residency and Concert by Gobeil, KarlsruheGilles Gobeil will be composer in residence at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe (Germany) from June 16 to August 16, 2005. A concert titled “Le vertige inconnu” featuring his work was presented on July 2, 2005 in the ZKM-Kubus.
Posted June 13, 2005 in Live Events |7556|
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2005 Bourges WinnersThe winners of the 32nd Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art (France) have been announced. The Magisterium was awarded to composer Åke Parmerud and his work SubString Bridge, for guitar and interactive computer. Mathew Adkins received a mention in the “abstract music” category for Silk to Steel. Pete Stollery’s Vox Magna was also selected in this category. Other pieces were selected in various categories: Ombres, espaces, silences… by Gilles Gobeil, Cold Storage by Janek Schaefer, Piano Piece (for Peter) by Adrian Moore, and Aesthetics of the Machine by Elio Martusciello. Notably, composer Roxanne Turcotte saw two of her works selected, Sons et tintamarre in the “program music” category and Micro-trottoir in the “work for installation” category. Posted June 9, 2005 in What’s New |7552|
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Canadians Wins at Ars Electronica![]() ![]() Many Canadian artists have received distinctions and special mentions in the “digital musics” category at the recent Prix Ars Electronica 2005 competition. John Oswald was awarded a distinction for his plunderphonics. Gilles Gobeil’s composition Ombres, espaces, silences… received a mention. Duo Skoltz_Kolgen also obtained a mention for their performance work Flüux :/ Terminal. Finally, the Artificiel trio were awarded a mention for the project condemned_bulbes. Posted May 25, 2005 in What’s New |7550|
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eD: Gobeil Unveils a Trilogy for ondes Martenot, in 24-bit Sound![]() Two years after Le contrat, an adaptation of Goethe’s Faust, composed in collaboration with René Lussier, Gilles Gobeil unveils his Trilogie d’ondes (Ondes Trilogy), mixed works for ondes Martenot and tape, brilliantly interpreted by Suzanne Binet-Audet. The second DVD-Audio release by the empreintes DIGITALes label, Trilogie d’ondes presents new recordings of Voix blanche (White Voice) and Là où vont les nuages… (Where the Clouds Go…) in addition to La perle et l’oubli (Pearl and Oblivion), inspired by the Gnostic text Hymn of the Pearl.
Posted May 17, 2005 in Recent Arrivals |7542|
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ZKM Presents trans_canada with 9 Premieres, KarlsruheThe ZKM — Institut für Musik und Akustik in Karlsruhe (Germany) presented the “trans_canada: Tendenzen in Akusmatik und Soundscapes / Trends in Acousmatics and Soundscapes” event on February 10 - 13, 2005. Four days of concerts and discussions organized by Sabine Breitsameter and Ludger Brümmer with 9 ZKM commissions and world premières by Canadian composers Francis Dhomont, Darren Copeland, Nicolas Bernier, Hildegard Westerkamp, Barry Truax, Louis Dufort, Robert Normandeau, and Gilles Gobeil along with conferences by Jean-François Denis, Christoph von Blumröder (Köln), Rudolf Frisius (Karlsruhe), and Daniel Teruggi (Paris).
Posted January 12, 2005 in Live Events |7485|
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4 Opus Nominations for empreintes DIGITALes![]()
Four of empreintes DIGITALes’s 2004 discographic productions are nominated at the Opus awards in the category “Disc of the Year - Musique actuelle and Electroacoustics”: Fractures by Christian Bouchard, Le contrat by Gilles Gobeil and René Lussier, Seuil de silences by Paul Dolden and also Migrations by Stéphane Roy.
Posted December 10, 2004 in What’s New |7475|
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empreintes DIGITALes in April 2004 in Lille, France
For the “Monde parallèle Montréal 45°N//” event, organized by Lille - Cultural Capital of Europe, label empreintes DIGITALes presented a portrait of Montréal’s electroacoustic creation since 1971 through 24 works by 21 Montréal composers: Serge Arcuri, Yves Beaupré, Christian Bouchard, Ned Bouhalassa, Christian Calon, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Yves Daoust, Francis Dhomont, Paul Dolden, Louis Dufort, Gilles Gobeil, Monique Jean, René Lussier, Robert Normandeau, Arturo Parra, Mario Rodrigue, Stéphane Roy, Alain Thibault, Jacques Tremblay, Marc Tremblay, Roxanne Turcotte. Electroacoustic label empreintes DIGITALes, new media and electronic art festivals Elektra and Mutek with the collaboration of the Society for arts and technology (SAT) all teamed up to present the best of Montréal’s electronic music and video.
Posted April 14, 2004 in What’s New |7374|
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eD: Gobeil and Lussier Honor Their Contract!
Gilles Gobeil and René Lussier lightheartedly agreed to this contract but it took them 7 years to fully honor its clauses! Le contrat (“The contract”) is a magnificent fresco inspired by Goethe’s Faust and its infinite cultural ramifications. A symbiosis of one’s ardour and the other’s meticulousness.
Posted October 14, 2003 in Recent Arrivals |7303|
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“Machines 08” at Méduse, Quebec CityMore than a technical challenge, Machines 08: “Le chemin des machines” is a wonderful networked improvised composition. 4 musicians live through the internet, 8 others scattered in strange places in the Méduse complex and 4 electroacoustic composers to spatialize the result on a loudspeakers orchestra. A prowess you don’t want to miss! With participating artists Diane Labrosse, Alexandre St-Onge, Steve Lebrasseur, Aimé Dontigny, James Schidlowsky, Julie Rousse, Raphaël Simard, Mathieu Lévesque, Jocelyn Robert (California), Kevin M Krebs (British-Columbia), the Frequenza_Minima duo (Italy) and in the main room composers Jean-François Denis, Gilles Gobeil, Marc Tremblay, and Louis Dufort. February 14, 2003 at 8:30pm. Posted February 10, 2003 in Live Events |7205|
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A “Connected” EveningOn Monday September 30, 2002, the 4th Orgue et couleurs festival invites you to a “connected” evening where traditional instruments and current technology meet for our greater pleasure. Robert Normandeau will present Chorus, recently awarded at the 2002 Freiburg International Sacred Music Composition competition; Gilles Gobeil will reveal to the Québec public his new creation, La perle et l’oubli for tape and ondes Martenot (performed by Suzanne Binet-Audet); also, the organ and piano duet Majoya. In Montréal’s Saint-Nom-de-Jésus church at 8pm.
Posted September 19, 2002 in Live Events |7131|
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“Métamorphoses 2002” FinalistsThe jury of the “Métamorphoses 2002” competition (Francis Dhomont, Beatriz Ferreyra, Annette Vande Gorne, Hans Tutschku) met in the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studios, in Ohain (Belgium), in order to determine the finalists and the participants for the public finale to be held at the L’Espace du Son festival in Brussels, on October 2, 2002. Amongst the finalists are composers Gilles Gobeil, Monique Jean and Robert Normandeau.
Posted July 17, 2002 in Live Events |7098|
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North-American Premiere of La perle et l’oubli by Gilles GobeilA free interpretation of a gnostic text from the 2nd century entitled Anthem of the Pearl, La perle et l’oubli (“Pearl and Lapse of Memory”) is a work by Gilles Gobeil for ondes Martenot and tape which will be presented by Vancouver New Music Society on September 14, 2002. Premiered in Köln (Germany) at a concert produced by the WDR3 at the Stadtgarten on January 7, 2002, the piece features the ondist Suzanne Binet-Audet. Posted July 10, 2002 in Live Events |7097|
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eD: Did You Ssay “Parr(A)cousmatique”?
Arturo Parra is a Colombian composer and guitar player living in Québec for the past ten years. With his new release Parr(A)cousmatique, we are treated with a splendid bouquet of works for guitar and tape. Five acousmatic works, five passionate meetings with the acoustic guitar, played without acessories or special preparation. With musical propositions from Bejarano, Dhomont, Gobeil, Normandeau and Roy, Parra builds organic sonic weddings far away from the usual clichés of contemporary guitar.
Posted April 17, 2002 in Recent Arrivals |7056|
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Denis Smalley is guest composer at SEAMUS 2002The annual SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) national conference will be held in Iowa City (USA), April 4-6, 2002. Denis Smalley is the guest composer and will present his composition Base Metals, available on the album Sources/scènes. He will also participate in various panel discusions. One of the research presentations take one of Gilles Gobeil’s composition as subject; Joseph Harchanko’s paper, “Using Spectro-morpholgy to Explain Structuring Process in Gilles Gobeil’s ‘Le vertige inconnu’.” This piece is released on Gobeil’s first CD, La mécanique des ruptures.
Posted February 22, 2002 in Live Events |7039|
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eD: Gobeil Releases … dans le silence de la nuit…
“… one of the most talented and sensitive jugglers of sounds we’ve heard” (Sonoloco Record Reviews, Sweden). Since its release, Gilles Gobeil’s new disc, … dans le silence de la nuit…, attracts a lot of praises and attention. Dark and fascinating, his sonic universe routs bias and produces extraordinary sonic depth. Inspired by both readings (Proust, HG Wells, Verne) and travels (Venice), Gobeil’s compositions leaves the listener breathless with its moving images and secret atmospheres. 50 minutes expressly remastered for this edition, illustrated by Luc Beauchemin.
Posted January 15, 2002 in Recent Arrivals |7005| electrocd.com Gilles Gobeil: headlines |
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