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imed_9421-1 |1. Le vertige inconnu (1993-94) 8m23s imed_9421-1.1 | 14212 | ISRC CAD509411100 Listen (excerpt)
Composer: Gilles Gobeil Commission: GMEB, with support from the CCA Premiere: June 1993 (Bourges, Cher, France)
[vi-95] Le vertige inconnu (The Mysterious Vertigo) was produced in 1993 at the studios of the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB, France). It premiered in June 1993 at the 23rd Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Festival (France). Le vertige inconnu received the 1994 Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden) and was selected for the 1994 World Music Days (Stockholm, Sweden) and the 1994 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC’94) in Danmark. The piece was commissioned by the GMEB, with support from the Canada Council [for the Arts].[v-94] Since, Le vertige inconnu was awarded the prize of international competition Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden, 1994) and the 2nd prize of the international competition Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria, 1995). 2. Voix blanche (1988-89) 12m58s imed_9421-1.2 | 14040 | ISRC CAD509411110ondes Martenot, and tape Listen (excerpt)
Composer: Gilles Gobeil Performer: Suzanne Binet-Audet, ondes Martenot Commission: Suzanne Binet-Audet, with support from the CCA Premiere: November 18, 1988, Suzanne Binet-Audet • Salle Claude-Champagne (Montréal, Québec) In memory of Serge Garant (1929-1986) This dramatic piece brings together one of the earliest electronic instruments and one of the most recent developments in digital audio technology. The instrumentalist occupies a well-defined space in this universe of sound on tape. However, her role is not that of the traditional soloist. The tones of the ondes Martenot, supple and expressive, approach the strains of the human voice, and seek to meld with the highly intense material on tape. [English translation: François Couture, iii-05] Voix blanche (White Voice) was produced in the composer’s studio. It was premiered on November 18, 1988, at the Salle Claude-Champagne in Montréal as part of a Radio-Canada concert celebrating the 60th anniversary of the ondes Martenot. The piece was commissioned by the performer, Suzanne Binet-Audet, and produced with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. Voix blanche was awarded the 2nd Prize in the mixed electroacoustic category at the 17th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France, 1989) and the 2nd Prize at the 11th Luigi Russolo International Competition (Varese, Italy, 1989). Voix blanche first appeared on the Cultures électroniques 4 compact disc produced by the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB) and released on the label Le chant du monde (LCD 278049/50), then on the compact disc La mécanique des ruptures, empreintes DIGITALes (IMED 9421). This version was recorded by Gilles Gobeil on December 16-17, 2004, in Boucherville (Québec) and mixed by the composer and the performer in the composer’s studio in January 2005. 3. Associations libres (1990) 3m00s imed_9421-1.3 | 14250 | ISRC CAD509411120electric guitar, and tape Listen (excerpt)
Composer: Gilles Gobeil Performer: René Lussier, electric guitar Commission: René Lussier, with support from the CCA , empreintes DIGITALes Premiere: November 2, 1990, Montréal musiques actuelles / New Music America, Théâtre Les Loges (Montréal, Québec) This piece was born of the desire after fifteen years, to collaborate with the guitarist René Lussier. Using his talent for improvisation, I have employed the wide variety of timbres and sound matter from his interpretation. The tape consists of a succession of very dense and expressive scenes onto which the guitar’s living and playful gestures are placed. Gilles Gobeil [xi-90] Associations libres was produced at the studio Ondes in Montréal in July, 1990. It premiered on November 2nd, 1990 at the Les Loges theater during the New Music America/Montréal musiques actuelles festival. It was commissioned by René Lussier with the assistance of the Canada Council [for the Arts]. Associations libres is recorded on the discs Électro clips [IMED 9004, IMED 9604] and, in a revised mix, La mécanique des ruptures [IMED 9421] on the label empreintes DIGITALes (IMED 9004). [v-94] 4. La ville machine (1992) 14m45s imed_9421-1.4 | 14215 | ISRC CAD509411130 Listen (excerpt)
Composer: Gilles Gobeil Writer: Lyette Limoges Commission: ACREQ, with support from the CCA Premiere: June 18, 1992, CKUT FM (Montréal, Québec) “When the act is committed, when the threat is carried out, reason dictates the impossible. They believed it, all of them.” La ville machine (The Machine City) is an electroacoustic drama on the subject of sound ecology. [v-94] La ville machine was produced in the composer’s studio. It was presented at the 7e Printemps électroacoustique de Montréal during the radio program Sons d’esprit on CKUT FM in Montréal. It was also presented in concert on June 20, 1992 at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. La ville machine was commissioned by the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec (ACREQ) with support from the Canada Council [for the Arts]. Thanks to Hélène Mondoux and François Godin (narration) and to the children of the École nouvelle Querbes in the city of Outremont. In 1993, La ville machine was awarded the Grand Prize at the competition of the SOCAN (the Canadian preforming right society). 5. Rivage (1986) 8m44s imed_9421-1.5 | 14216 | ISRC CAD509411140 Listen (excerpt)
Composer: Gilles Gobeil Rivage (Shore) utilizes unretouched sounds from our urban environment (the noise of traffic, of industry, of business transactions…) bordered by electronic sounds. The title refers to the antinomy created by the clash of these two elements, a continual conflict, and symbolizes the interplay of contrasts, the shifting of a delta, which underlie the work. [v-94] Rivage was produced in the studios of McGill University in Montréal in 1986, with support from the Canada Council [for the Arts]. Rivage was awarded the 2nd Prize at the 1987 International Newcomp Computer Music Competition (Boston, USA), an honorable mention at the 9th Luigi Russolo International Competition (Varese, Italy, 1987), and a mention in the electroacoustic category at the 16th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France, 1988). Rivage can also be found as part of the Anthology of Canadian Music: Electroacoustic Music on the Radio Canada International label (ACM 37). 6. Nous sommes heureux de… (1992) 57s imed_9421-1.6 | 14217 | ISRC CAD509411150 Listen (excerpt)
Composer: Gilles Gobeil Nous sommes heureux de… (We are pleased to…) was produced at the composer’s studio. This very short piece was a finalist in the 1992 Concours international électro-vidéo clips of the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec (ACREQ). 7. Là où vont les nuages… (1990-91) 11m20s imed_9421-1.7 | 14218 | ISRC CAD509411160ondes Martenot, interactive system, and tape Listen (excerpt)
Composer: Gilles Gobeil Performer: Suzanne Binet-Audet, ondes Martenot Premiere: June 5, 1991, Suzanne Binet-Audet • >>Perspectives->->, Université Concordia (Montréal, Québec) To Suzanne Binet-Audet In this piece, the ondes Martenot is linked to a MIDI converter, enabling the performer to play, in addition to her instrument, other MIDI instruments (synthesizer, sampler, and the entirety of the processing). This ’super-instrument’ gives access to a profusion of sounds — simple and complex — which surround and accompany the timbre of the ondes Martenot while remaining responsive to the nuances imparted by the performer. [v-94] Là où vont les nuages… (Where the Clouds go…) was produced in the composer’s studio in 1990. It was presented on June 5, 1991 by Suzanne Binet-Audet, to whom this work is dedicated, during the 3rd CEC Electroacoustic Days, >>Perspectives->->, at Concordia University in Montréal. It was also presented at the 1993 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC’93) in Tokyo (Japan). This version was recorded at the Sainte-Famille Church in Boucherville (Québec) on September 29 and 30, 1992 and mixed at the Amarillys studio in Lévis (Québec) in December 1993. 8. Traces (1985) 6m31s imed_9421-1.8 | 14219 | ISRC CAD509411170 Listen (excerpt)
Composer: Gilles Gobeil The impression of an expression, the faint trail left upon passing. The shards of reality emerge here and there, furtively, at the center of an abstract universe, concise and articulate, to be immediately absorbed and transformed in sudden, erratic swinging movements. [v-94] Traces was produced in the studios of the Université de Montréal in 1985. It was awarded the 1st Mention at the Brock University Tape Music Competition (St Catharines, Ontario, 1985) and the 2nd Prize at the 10th Luigi Russolo International Competition (Varese, Italy, 1988). electrocd.com Gilles Gobeil: La mécanique des ruptures (CD): track detail |
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