Composer and sound designer, Guillaume Thibert is General and Artistic Director of the Centre d'Expérimentation Musicale, a new music production society founded in 1981. He was, from 2010 to 2018, research professional for the Chaire de recherche en dramaturgie sonore of the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), directed by Jean-Paul Quéinnec.
Trained in jazz-pop piano and a graduate in sound design, he worked early on in several studios such as Radio-Canada and Astral Media, before opening his personal recording studio. He then became an active member and was elected president of TouTTouT - centre de production en art actuel - where he set up his studio and devotes himself to creation. He composes, records and produces several music and sound environments for the cinema (Immortalité : dernière frontière on Radio-Canada/ARTE, La Fumée sans Feu, Univers Intimes, Jours blancs, Jogging), signs some twenty sound designs for the theatre (Saint-André-de-l’Épouvante – Théâtre PaP/La Rubrique, Carton Rouge sur Carré Vert, Rosépine – les Amis de Chiffon, le Grand Œuvre, Daidalos, Le petit cercle de craie – La Tortue Noire, Les mains de Jonathan, La Liberté – La Rubrique) and composes for the stage (Alcan Quartet, l’Ensemble Contemporain du CEM, le Gros Groupe).
His musical approach favors interaction with artists, integrating them directly into the creative process. The works he creates combine musicality and sound narrativity while making intensive use of digital audio technologies, particularly in spatialization and sound processing. Expert and passionate about sound technologies, he is a consultant for several cultural organizations and for the UQAC, where he set up infrastructures and equipment specialized in digital audio.
In addition to his many personal projects, Guillaume Thibert has collaborated on several research-creation projects with recognized artists in the visual arts (Guy Blackburn, Claudine Cotton, Yves Tremblay, Karine Côté, Marie-Josée Hardy), in cinema (Sébastien Pilote, Sylvie Blum, Éric Bachand, Boran Richard, Claudia Chabot, Bogdan Stefan), in music (Yannick Rieu, Luc Beauchemin, Jean-Pierre Bouchard, Robert Pelletier), in puppetry (La Tortue Noire, Les Amis de Chiffon) and in theatre (Jean-Paul Quéinnec, Patrice Dubois, Marthe Adam, Carole Nadeau). His work and production have been presented in Canada, Mexico, France, Belgium, Colombia and Italy.
Also a cultural worker and seasoned administrator, Guillaume sits in turn on several boards of directors, in particular that of the Conseil Régional de la Culture, the Café-théâtre Côté-cour, TouTTouT artists centre, where he assumes the presidency for five years, and the Tortue Noire.
