Oberlin College and Conservatory

Guest Recital: Suzanne Binet-Audet, ondes Martenot, featuring the music of Gilles Gobeil

Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 8:00pm

Warner Concert Hall
77 West College Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

A conservatory guest recital performed by Suzanne Binet-Audet, ondes Martenot, featuring compositions by Gilles Gobeil.

Program: 

Les lointains noirs et rouges (2009) 10:45′  

                             

Trilogie d’ondes                                                                                       

Voix Blanche (1989) 13:02′

   for ondes Martenot & fixed sounds

Là où vont les nuages… (1991) 11:20′

   for ondes Martenot, real-time processing & fixed sounds

La Perle et l’Oubli (2002) 21:17′

   for ondes Martenot & fixed sounds

 

Des temps oubliés (2012) 12:00′

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After studying organ at the Conservatoire de Montréal, Suzanne Binet-Audet took advanced courses under Jean Langlais in Paris. She studied the ondes Martenot in parallel with its inventor, Maurice Martenot, at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, where she received First Prize. She went on complete her Licence de concert at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris under Jeanne Loriod.

Since then she has been performing both as a soloist and as a member of the ondes Martenot ensembles Sextuor Loriod (Paris) and the Ensemble d’Ondes de Montréal since it was founded in 1976. She has also performed with various orchestras and ensembles internationally at such festivals as EMS, World Music Days, Holland Festival and Toronto’s Electronic Music Festival.

Binet-Audet was the soloist for the recording of Gilles Gobeil’s DVD Trilogie d’ondes, which won the Prix Opus (Disc of the Year) in 2005. She appears in and contributed to the soundtrack of the 2012 documentary Le chant des ondes — Sur la piste de Maurice Martenot (English: Wavemakers).

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After studies in music theory, Gilles Gobeil completed his master’s in composition at Université de Montréal. Since 1985 he has concentrated on the creation of acousmatic and mixed works. His compositions approach what is known as “cinéma pour l’oreille” (cinema for the ear); many of them are inspired by literary works and seek to “visualize” them through the medium of sound.

Winner of more than 20 prizes in Canada and abroad, Gobeil has been Composer-in-Residence at The Banff Centre, Bourges, GRM, Hochschule Franz Liszt, ZKM and was Guest Composer of the DAAD’s Artists-in-Berlin Programme in 2008. Gobeil is currently a professor of music technology at Drummondville CEGEP, and has been Guest Professor of electroacoustics at the Université de Montréal and at the Montréal Conservatory. He is a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and co-founder of Réseaux, an association dedicated to the production of Media Art events.

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