Mario Gauthier
Mario Gauthier studied in musicology and composition techniques. He also educated himself in orchestral direction, orchestration, musical arrangement, radio, phonography (recording and reproduction of sound), and cinema history.
In 2005, he was briefly consultant, producer and host in classical and contemporary music for the internet radio station Radiolibre.ca. Before that, from 1988 until 2004, he was also producer and host for the ex-Chaine culturelle of Radio-Canada. As such, Mario Gauthier conceived weekly and daily shows as well as “antenna project” (eg
In parallel, he gave conferences and organized different events around audio art, new music and use of the sound in cinema and radio. He was member of several musical jurys in Québec and abroad (Austria, France, Poland) and represented the Société Radio-Canada (SRC) in diverse national and international organizations (Ars Acustica, Committee for digital radio…).
He also won some prizes
Before being a radio producer, he was also teacher and choir director for the opera workshop of the Music Faculty of the Université de Montréal (1982-90). He also conducted small ensemble of contemporary music (1984-2000) and was an arranger and a musical adviser for the multimedia opera project Poe-Debussy, Autour de la maison Usher (1988-90). In 1986, he also co-founded the concert society Société de concerts alternatifs du Québec (now known as Codes d’accès) which allows musicians and semiprofessional composers to have the possibility to be heard in concert. This association is still active nowadays.
He receives grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and Canada Council for the Arts and collaborated in several artistic projects as sound consultant, reader, writer, commentator, speaker… He is a member of the board of Productions Supermusique, Bradyworks, the Phonothèque québécoise, and L’écran blanc. He also recently presented (with Chantal Dumas) an installation about the listening of the radio medium in Halle (Germany, 2006).
He is actually composing a radiophonic piece about the voice as a fictional object in radio and writing a book on the perceptive effects of phonography. Finally he produced two discs for the collection Séries sonores (directed by Uli Aumüller.
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