JEAN ROUTHIER soundcrafter of urban audio folklore.

Here's where you will find selected bits of biographical info and list of past activities.

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PUBLICATIONS

IN[ ]EX Catalogue, Centre for Contemporary Asian Arts, Vancouver, BC (upcoming)
Street Watch Over You (Blank Edition), Vancouver, BC 2005.
Reverie: Noise City (Western Front), Vancouver, BC 2005.
Avatar 96 432 heures (OMH), Québec, QC 2004.
S:ON(Nicole Gingras edition), Montréal, QC 2004.
Endurance (Aurore Nocturne), Vancouver, BC 2001.
PRESENCE II (PEP), Montréal, QC 2000.
Gallery Largeness vol. 11; Toronto, ON 1997.
PRESENCE (PEP), Montréal, QC 1997.
Rappel (OHM), Québec, QC 1996.
DisContact II (CEC), Montréal, QC 1995.
Ding Dong Deluxe (OHM), Québec, QC 1994.
Volute, Concordia University, Montréal, QC 1993.

 

RADIO / INTERNET / FESTIVAL/ EVENTS

Surf and Turf soundwalk, Vancouver Vibrates, Vancouver New Music,Vancouver, BC, May 2008.
Explorations Routières, Radio Road Movies, Kunstradio/ ORF, Austria, January 2006.
Live improvisation, on Soundscapes, CFRO FM,Vancouver, BC, June 30th 2005.
Radio Taxi, Cambridge, England, June 2005.
T.M.:RY_B, Signal and Noise festival, Video In Studios, Vancouver, BC, April 2005.
Improvisation with Josh Stevenson on Soundscapes, CFRO FM, April 30, 2005.
Rêverie: Noise City performance, Western Front, 2005.
7 works by Jean Routhier, Overgarden audio exhibit, Copenhagen, Danemark, 2004.
Ethereal interference-music for a soundwalk at Willow farm, Vancouver New Music, Sechelt, BC, 2004.
Recreational interference, Video In Studios, Vancouver, BC, 2004.
IVPM, live PA for a performance by J. Ciona, Grunt gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2004.
T.M:RY, One, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 2004.
T.M.:RY_B, See Sound Escape, Western Front, 2003.
IVPM, live PA for a performance by J. Ciona, private studio, Vancouver, BC, 2003.
Ecran de fumée, Code D'Accès 15th anniversary concert, Montreal, QC, April 12 2001.
Ecran de Fumée, Musica Nova competition, Vltava Czech Radio, Czech Republic, March 30 2001.
Participant, L'Atopie textuelle, Causes Perdues INc, Quebec, QC, 2000-ongoing(http://www.atopie.qc.ca).
Ecran de fumée, DLux Media Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia, June 2000 (http://www.dlux.org.au/dart/exlist.html).
Violent interviews, gateWAYS project (http://alien.mur.at/gateways/index.html), and Kunstaradio ORF, Vienna, Austria, March 19-21, 2000.
Art's Birthday, 24hrs of radio art, CITR radio, Vancouver, January 17 2000.
Participant, One Moment, Oboro (Montreal), Plug-In (Winnipeg), Western Front (Vancouver), March 27 1999.
S.L.D.O., Festival GlobalMix Cracow, Poland 1999.
Turn the Schwitt Up! ... (Coll. T. Brett), webcast Merzbarn, Ambleside, UK 1999.
Ecran de fumée, école des Beaux-Arts d'Aix-en-Provence, France 1999.
Private Excerpts, "Private Radio" (Bill Mullen), CBC FM Vancouver, 1998.
Carte blanche a Jean Routhier, Skizophonics, CFRO FM Vancouver 1998.
Frêle cocotte intime, Media Tics series, CHMA FM Sackville, NB, 1998.
Participant, "Black Box" (Matthew Smith, Sandra Wintner); Immersive Sounds, Bregenz, Austria, 1998.
The A/V Log - North America's soundings (collabo. with J. Ciona) 1996; broadcast on:

La Grande diagonale (coll. with Avatar and J. Ciona), Le Navire Night, Radio-Canada, Montreal, QC, 1996.
Face à claques, Fragments, Sound Culture '96; San Francisco, CA, US of A. 1996.
Fragments and Face à claques, concert Inter-Face, MdlC Frontenac, Montreal, QC, 1995.
phête Canton, concert electroWEB, Montreal, QC, 1995.
Au Jeu! Lutte avec lyre; concert Bruit du Noir, Studio 303 Montreal, QC 1995.
Coco le huajolote (soundtrack); Siggraph media arts conference, Orlando, Florida, US of A, 1994.
Messages accomplis, Telephone intervention, Avatar, Quebec, QC 1994.
Luit Bing Bang, Futura-Festival d'Art Acousmatique, Crest, France 1994.
Bris (variation), Journées ELECTRO-RADIO days, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, 1993.

 

FILM / VIDEO

EDUCATIONAL/ CORPORATE
Les trois petits cochons, 8 min., Swift Current, SK, 1994.
Guatemala's Chamber of Commerce, Montreal, QC, 1995.
Pharmacist training video (V.C.C. King Edward), 30 min., Vancouver, BC, 1997.

DOCUMENTARIES/ FICTIONS
Aimed, Centered and Caressed, S8 & DV, 1999 (LOST!)
Simple d'esprit, 0:59 sec., S8 & DV, 1996-1999 (LOST!)
Tudjatataouchj (coll.), 7 min., 1994.
Ten days (J. Hanspal), 8 min., 1994.
Three Dances (G. Gradauer), 1995.
Performance documentary (T. Bruggera), 1997.
Gorgeous, isn't it? (coll.) 8 min.,1993.
Jeux et Vertiges (coll.),7 min., 1993.
Liabilities (M. Moumblow/ A. Russell), 24:30, 1993.
Coco le Huajolote prend un bain (coll.), 1993.
A la recherche du Bukitroq (coll.), 12 min., 1992.
4 chemins mènent au Bukitroq (coll.), 12 min.,1992.

 

EXHIBITIONS

Une Suite de Temps-Morts, AIS, Toronto, Septembre 2007.
URBAN BUTOH DANCE TRACKS for Mobile clubbing, ScotiaBank Dance Centre, Vancouver, Septembre 2007.
IN[_]EX, Centre A, Vancouver BC, June 2006.
IN[_]EX, ISEA Symposium, San jose, CA, US of A, July, 2006.

7 audio works by J. Routhier, Overgarden Festival, Copenhagen, Danemark, 2004
Ecran de fumee, Untitled, L'Effet du logis, Studio Cormier, Montreal, QC, October 2001.
Temps-morts: iona, Signal and Noise festival, Video In Studios, Vancouver, BC, April 2001.
Soundtracks: visual arts with an audio component, Artspace, Peterborough, ON, June 2000.
Ecran de fumée, DLux Media Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia, June 2000.
Sélection d'oeuvres de Jean Routhier, 11eme Festival d'été, Centre Culturel Francophone, Vancouver, BC, June 15-24 2000.
Frele cocotte intime, Jukebox (Jerome Joy), Contemporary Museum, Lyon, France.
Massive ears, (installation audiovisual), Helen Pitt gallery, Vancouver, BC, 1998.
Esperance et Vie (sculptures); Bosnia-Herzegovina, Open Wound, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1993.
Le bukitroq (installations), gallery de l'UQAM, Montréal, QC, 1992.


RESIDENCES

Western Front (see projet: Rêverie: Noise City), Vancouver, BC, 2004/5.
Banff Center (Slo-Mo residency), Banff, AB, 2001.
CYPRES, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1998.
Centre International de Création Vidéo Pierre Schaeffer (CICV), Montbéliard, France, 1998.

GRANTS
Media Arts production(group collaboration), Canada Council for the arts, Ottawa, ON, 2006
PICLO (Partenariat interministeriel avec les communautes de langue officielle) Patrimoine Canada, Ottawa, ON, 2002.
Media Arts production, Canada Council for the arts, Ottawa, ON, 2001.
Audio art commission, Community Radio Education Society-Media Art Committee, Vancouver, BC, 2000.
Les Inclassables, Québec Arts Council, Québec, QC, 1998.
Jeune volontaire program, Quebec government, Montréal, QC, 1994.

EMPLOYMENT

Freelance audio, stage, media technicien/ consultant, A-V recordings, playback system configurations, editing.
Information Services Technician for the Interactive Sound and Images dept., Technical University of British Columbia (now Simon Fraser Univ. - Surrey campus).
Integrated media technician (casual), Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, 2000-on going.
Technical Director, Western Front media art center, Vancouver, 1997-2201.
Technical Coordinator, Festival International des Films sur l'Art, Montréal, 1995.
Publicity Coordinator, Publicité Sauvage, Montréal,QC, 1995.
Set decorator, Sirens (TV series), Montréal,QC, 1995.
Communication assistant, Canadian electroacoustic community, Montréal, QC, 1992-94.

POST-PRODUCTION
Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, online podcast, 2007 [voicing and recording].
Cross boundary, 13min., S.Northcott, DigiBetacam, 2005 [sound design].
Pulse, 2 min.  S.Northcott, DigiBetacam, 2005 [sound design].
Flyby, 1 min.  S.Northcott, DigiBetacam, 2005 [sound design].
La ruée vers l'ouest, I. Saragosti, DV, 2004 (in progress) [location sound recordist].
Design for Living, radioplay, Vancouver Art gallery 2004 [dialog recordist/ editor, sound design].
Treemendous Journey, Mortal Coil theatre, Vancouver, 2003 [re-editing, sound design].
Translating Esther, 6min., W. Oberlander, DV, 2003 [sound design].
Still (Stille), documentary, W. Oberlander 2001 [dialog recordist/ editor].
Dear Jaz, health education audio CD, Women & Children Hospital, Vancouver 2000 [recordist(dialog)/ editor].
The terrible but incomplete journal of john D., Rumble theatre, 2000 [Audio CD mastering].
Audio Art Vol. 2, C.R.E.S. Media Art, 2000 [Audio CD mastering].
Akabela (CD-Rom), Danna Claxton/ Grunt gallery, Vancouver 2001 [editing and mastering of audio component].
The Songbird project (music and community art) 2000 [recording and mixing].
Urban tattoo (theatre) 1999 [voice overs/ sound effects/ editor].
Nomadic architecture (dual channel video installation), Zainub Vergee, Burnaby Art Gallery 1997 [audio transfers/ editing/ mastering].
Whats's the name? (8 channels video installation), Doleen Manning, Burnaby Art Gallery 1997 [recordist(dialog), editing].
Cabeza Abajo (video document), Tania Bruggera, 1997 [audio editor, mixer].
Radio Nomad: The Electronic Arts Festival (radio and internet), 1997 [producer/ recordist].
Never Always, Choeur MAHA, dir. Kathy Kennedy, (publised by Musicworks), 1995 [recordist].
Le Droit d'Aimer, Théâtre Mirroir, Montréal, QC, 1994 [sound design, technician].
World's longest day, live cable TV broadcast, Montréal, QC, 1993 [audio switcher].

EDUCATION

Special Effects explosive assistant, Vancouver, BC, 2007.
WHMS certificat (hazardous material), Vancouver, BC, 2005.
Seminar of interactivity, UNESCO-MECAD, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
Interactive authoring program, WFMM, Vancouver, BC, 1997.
Sound design workshop, Cineworks, Vancouver, BC, 1997.
Analog video editing training, PRIM, Montréal,QC, 1995.
B.F.A., inter-related Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, 1993.
Electroacoustic musical instrument building workshop, Montréal, QC, 1993.
Private piano lessons, Montréal, QC, 1977-80.

As an artist my strongest interest lies with the evocative power of sound and its flexibility to accomodate itself to different exhibition conditions. I find the immateriality of the medium allows to transform any space and engage it's visitors in a direct way by requiring active listening, thus enabling the intrisinc emotional and physical impact of the sounds to resonate with them. My practice mostly focuses on the textures and dynamics of manipulated field recordings. Informed by my parrallel activites as a freelance sound technician, editor and consultant, I am also keen on exploring in the important delivery systems used for audio playback using unorthodox recording and reinforcement technics.

Over the years i have been involved with numerous cultural groups dedicated to the promotion of the media and audio arts.
I am board member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and sat on the technical, engineering and production commitees for CFRO 102.7FM radio Vancouver as well as the Community Radio Education Society's Media Arts Commitee from 1999 to 2004. I also share host-producer duties for the radio show "Soundscapes" (CFRO radio station). I am a member of SOCAN, the canadian composers' rights society.


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