Words / Music / Ideas / Interaction

Jac Gautreau.

Creative, Curious, Competent

Jac Gautreau - Portrait Series

About.

I'm an artistic director, event producer, and content creator from Acadia, New Brunswick. For over two decades I've worked across music, interactive media, documentary, and live events — always as the person who holds the creative vision and gets it made.

I live a bicultural life, not just bilingual. As an Acadian creator, I contribute equally to English and French worlds, sometimes writing in Chiac — the beautiful hybrid tongue where Shakespeare and Molière collide. My work reflects that: produced for NFB, Radio-Canada, CBC, and cultural institutions across Atlantic Canada.

I define success by how much I'm learning, how much I'm creating, and how curious life keeps me. Lately that curiosity has turned toward AI — I build tools that didn't exist six months ago, and I use them to make the work more interesting, not less human.

Jac Gautreau

What I Do.

Creative Direction

Guiding vision from concept to completion. Making sure every piece serves the whole.

Songwriting & Composition

Matching words and music. The craft of making lyric and melody work together.

Creative Writing

Poetry, prose, and everything between. Building the scene, then letting it fly.

Custom Interactive Apps

Turning ideas into tools. Vibecoding — building through intuition and AI.

Creative AI Workflows

Designing systems where human creativity and AI work together. Automating the tedious, amplifying the inspired.

Digital Explorations.

Apps and tools I'm building

Carmen
AI / Music

Carmen

An AI lyric-writing studio that learns your voice and helps you write songs that sound like you. Structured around verses, choruses, and bridges, with line-level tools for rhythm matching, rhyme finding, rewriting, and flow analysis. Works in English and French.

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L'Estompe
Generative / Drawing

L'Estompe

A painting surface that keeps moving after you lift the pen. Marks feed a live fluid simulation, the currents grow into shapes, and a reaction-diffusion layer lets the image keep developing on its own. Built for iPad and Apple Pencil, with nine palettes and a Metamorphose pass that redraws the whole canvas.

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La Réplique
Writing / Theatre

La Réplique

A playwriting studio for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. A clean page for the text, a card board for the structure, and a pocket dramaturge that asks the questions a first draft needs. Bilingual throughout — every line in its own language and its echo, side by side — and each play publishes to a shareable web reading.

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Amorce
AI / Writing

Amorce

A daily 25-minute pomodoro poetry studio. Each morning the app reads yesterday's journal entry, extracts a single noun and sensory image as kindling, and hands you the writing surface with a timer. When the chime falls, three AI images are drawn from your poem, and a Canvas tool lays the text over one — drag, resize, pick any of twelve typefaces — ready to share straight from the iOS share sheet. Cross-device sync via Firestore.

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And a few hundred more — small tools built for one purpose, most of them in a weekend. Browse the atelier

Selected Works.

Acadictionnaire 1Acadictionnaire 2Acadictionnaire 3
Theatre / Cultural

Acadictionnaire

A theatrical primer on l'Acadie for the Pays de la Sagouine

Tracadie Story 1Tracadie Story 2Tracadie Story 3
Multimedia / Music

Tracadie Story

Large-scale projection meets hyper-local musical

Ocean School 1Ocean School 2
Education / Digital

Ocean School

Cutting-edge educational media

AR Whale
AR / Interactive

AR Whale

A Blue whale comes to life

Let's Talk.

Curious about working together? I'm always open to interesting conversations.

Email

Atlantic Canada