[1][2] Gobeil received his musical education at the Université de Montréal (Mmus in Composition).
Gobeil is a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC), Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and co-founder of the concert organization Réseaux des Arts Médiatiques, an organization for the production of media arts events.
[6][3] His sound-world contains sounds that emulate crash of a door, machine rhythms, fire-alarm bells, machine-gun like sounds, smashing glass, even helicopter rotors, the march of troops, distant water gushing from a broken main.
[7] Gobeil is known for his industrial soundscapes and the incorporation of live instruments (in particular the ondes martenot) deep within the electroacoustic medium.
[8] Gobeil has received numerous scholarships and commissions from institutes and festivals including ZKM Karlsruhe, GRM Paris, Ars Electronica Linz, ICMC Beijing, and the Banff Center, and his works have won many awards.