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Johnathan Goulet

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  • lecturer, Music, School of Performance

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Teaching activities

Bauhaus University departments of Acoustic Ecology and Experimental Radio, residency/performance/lecture, Berlin 2025
Catalyst-Institute for Creative Arts and Technology, presenter on audio-augmented soundwalks, Berlin, 2025

Deep Listening Institute, instructor of international training course in Deep Listening  Troy, NY 2023
National Theatre School Choir, director, Montreal 2023-25
Alfred University Summer Arts Festival,
artist in residence, leading low-watt radio transmission and collaborative music and text  Alfred, NY, 2022

RAIQ: intensive workshop on functional vocal skills for professional interdiscplinary artistes 2021,2020, 2019
MILE (International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation)
facilitator in an improvised music camp (Gaspé, Qc) since 2016

Chorale du bout du monde, arranged traditional Irish songs and directed choir of 150 singers, Gaspé, Qc. 2017

Poésie dans la cite, created and directed choral arrangement of 8 poets of diverse origins, Montreal, Qc. 2017

Urgence Chantée, created a spontaneous choral event for english and french pop songs (style of Choir Choir Choir) Montréal 2016

Naada Yoga Community Choir,  invited to create a choir 2012-2015

Bacchae, Scapegoat Carnival Theatre, choral director at Centaur Theatre 2009

Odaya, Women’s Indigenous performing ensemble, vocal coach and arranger

Lifestories Choir, director and vocal arranger of songs in Arabic, Farsi, Espagnol and others for the oral history project at Concordia 2008

Douglastown Irish Music Festival, vocal  coach et arranger of traditional irish songs 

Radio Jean-Talon creation of a CRTC licensed community radio station for the multicultural neighbourhood of Villeray in Montreal,
developing 24 hour programming and training radio personnel

Choeur Maha, founding director of the innovative women’s choir 1991-2016

NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art & Design), instructor of course "Inventory of Sounds," 2003

Instructor in Multimedia City College of San Francisco, 1999

Musical Director First Congregational Church of Oakland, 1998

Sonic Choreography Workshop Piano Store, New York, O.D.C., San Francisco, 1998

Digital Editing Workshop Interaccess, Toronto, B.A.V.C., San Francisco, 1998

Vocal Empowerment instructor pour PERFORMA, Dawson College Professional Development Program accredited by U. of Laval

Studio XX founding member. Different Angels executive producer of CD of Choeur Maha, 1996

Concordia University Contemporary Dance Department Instructor of, "Sound and Silence for the Dancer," 1993-97

Research activities

Soundwalk Symposium, Concordia University, conference director, Montreal 2022

Walking Arts Encounters Conference, Prespa, Greece, presented as part of residency with Galérie Vaste et Vague, Carleton-sur-mer, Qc. 2021

The Global Composition, Dieburg, Germany, conference on acoustic ecology, presented paper: The Oral Soundscape 2018

Concordia University's Critical Disability Studies Working Group, co-facilitating workshop on Listening 2018

Concordia University Professional Development Award for: The Secret Life of Songs research project

Water and Radio, Canada Council research grant for sound installations with low watt radio 2016

Publications

Singing Off the Grid / Chanter hors piste, retrospective book on my compositional work
E-Contact journal of electroacoustic studies: article on my radio-based work 2020
The Global Composition,
Dieburg, Germany, conference on acoustic ecology, presented paper: The Oral Soundscape 2018

Leonardo Music Journal vol. 19, selected artist writing on community art MIT Press, 2008

Islands of Resistance: Radio Pirates in Canada, chapter dedicated to my radio works; “The Power of Small” Vancouver, 2008

Zdnet.com (developers section) wrote article on web audio design, 2000

Fuse Magazine, wrote article "Dada to Data" on web,performance  1999

Transmissions Magazine, article Digital Self-defense (activism and internet audio) 1999

Musicworks Magazine, article on composer Pamela Z, 1999

Wired.com, "Radio Independents' Day" article, S.F. July 4, 1998

n. paradoxa, journal of feminist theory, web site review, UK, april, 1998

Women in Performance, a journal of feminist theory, article on my recent work "Echosystem" NYC, 1997

Mikropolyphonie online journal of new media, article "Geography of the Voice," 1996

Artistic performances

Les Veilleuses, performance in a musical choreography by Amour Amour, Salle Bougie, Montreal, 2025

Bean Fasa, live performance and soundtrackcreated for audio installation, Rewilding Festival, Kilarney, Ireland, 2025
Song for Palestine, Octophonic sound installation for Audiotopie’s essaim concert series, Montreal, 2025
Supermusiques,
regular performer with ensemble vocal bruitiste Joker
Phth,
member of experimental vocal ensemble
Mardi Spaghetti, Mercredi Musiques, member of the communities of improvisors
Vowel Jams, composer and performer of solo vocal cd

Sound Symposium / Suoni per il Popolo, Geolocative audio installation: Hear and Now/ Içi et là,  Montreal and St. John’s, Newfoundland 2024

Centre des arts actuels Skol, residence d’art collaborative, création d’une pièce : Choralliance, Montreal, 2024

Music of Breaths, soloist in extended vocal composition by Sandeep Bagwati for SMCQ, Montreal, 2024
Walkumentary: Malcolm Goldstein
(producer of audio documentary for cellphone) for Suoni per il popolo 2023
Mopomoso.tv
improvised vocal performance, London, UK 2022

The Patch (immersive vídeo Project by Bonnie Baxter)  created accompanying “Climate Justice Chorus” composition, 2022
Voies Mixtes: La Quadrature,
collaboration with contemporary storytelling collective, Montreal 2022
Cultural Heritage Lower St. Laurence
community-engaged artist in residence, created intergenerational work: “Chorality” in Bic/Rimouski 2022
Carleton University/Qu’ART Resonance Project
mentoring artist/performer/choral director with Gabriel Dharmoo, Ottawa 2022
coaching individual singing actors and performing a live choral improvisation with the group.

Perceides.ca Labyrinth geolocated choreography collaboration with Gabrielle Hélène Couther, Percé 2022

Dispersion Lab, regular member of online improvisation ensemble Electro Acoustic Orchestra (EAO) with Doug Van Nort, York University, Toronto

Participation activities

World Forum on Acoustic Ecology member
RAIQ (Rassemblement d'artistes interdisciplinaire du Québec) member

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