Gilles Gobeil
Promenades
Seven works by Gilles Gobeil from 1990 to 2020 on the theme of the stroll, from Chris Marker's La Jetée and Kubrick's 2001 with Yves Charuest's saxophone to Folkmar Hein's Berlin forest walks and the trio Déviation(s). CD-R.
Le Contrat
A 66-minute electroacoustic work after Goethe's Faust, composed over seven years (1996-2003) by old friends Gilles Gobeil and René Lussier, with Lussier's guitars and daxophone set into Gobeil's studio transformations across 17 scenes.
La Mécanique des Ruptures
Eight works by Gilles Gobeil from 1985 to 1994, among them Le vertige inconnu made at the GMEB in Bourges and two pieces for ondist Suzanne Binet-Audet, plus Associations libres with guitarist René Lussier.
Trilogie d’Ondes
Gilles Gobeil’s three works for ondes Martenot and fixed medium, written between 1988 and 2002 and recorded in 2004-05 with Suzanne Binet-Audet, who commissioned the first; winner of the Prix Opus disc of the year 2004-05. DVD-Audio.
… dans le Silence de la Nuit…
Four acousmatic works by Gilles Gobeil from 1995 to 2001, cinema for the ear drawn from literature and travel: Proust’s Swann’s Way read by Marc Béland, H.G. Wells’s time machine, Jules Verne’s underworld and sounds from a trip to Italy.
Les Lointains
Six works Gilles Gobeil made between 2008 and 2013 in Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, Stockholm and Montréal, remixed in 2015: sounds from Folkmar Hein's apartment, a Hesse-inspired tribute to musique concrète, Virgil's Sibyl, Meyrink's Golem and a homage to Liszt.
Trois Songes
Three 5.1-channel works Gilles Gobeil composed at the ZKM in Karlsruhe between 2005 and 2007, each on a literary argument: the Desert Fathers, Dante's Paradise and an unshot Tarkovsky script on E T A Hoffmann, with René Lussier's daxophone throughout. DVD-Audio.