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

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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Podcast Summaries 1Podcast Summaries 2
AI / Productivity

Podcast Summaries

AI-generated deep summaries with personalized insights and audio narration. Built with Astro, local LLM transcription, and custom TTS.

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Galerie
AI / Culture

Galerie

A daily art history quiz that trains your eye to recognize the great masters. Ten paintings, two questions each — identify the artist, then the movement. Covers 20 movements and 48 artists spanning six centuries, with artworks drawn from the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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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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Tarot of the Studio
AI / Ritual

Tarot of the Studio

A personal 78-card tarot deck drawn from my own life and practice. The Major Arcana feature Acadian, Atlantic, and personal concepts; the four suits are Pages (writing), Strings (music), Mirrors (film), and Groves (nature), with court cards following the old French guild progression — Apprentice, Compagnon, Artisan, Maître. Draw one card, three, or a Studio Cross spread.

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The Vault
Visualization / Knowledge

The Vault

A living 3D force-directed graph of my personal wiki. Nodes are pages, edges are wikilinks. Carmine project nodes pulse when their repositories have fresh commits; orphan pages drift to the periphery. Click a node to read its entry and see its connections.

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Willow
iOS / AI

Willow

A dog-walk diary for iOS. Clip the leash, tap start, and the phone captures the route in your pocket — no camera, no interruption. When the walk ends, Willow generates a single watercolor postcard of that walk: its time of day, weather, season, and the shape of the path. Built in SwiftUI with CoreLocation, WeatherKit, and AI image generation.

Willow Training
Training / Dogs

Willow Training

A companion app for training Willow — our actual dog. Tracks the week's plan (four-on-the-floor, place work, greetings), runs timers for place-drill personal bests, and logs wins in the moment. Two-handler mode keeps Jac and partner in sync on streaks, sit rate, and what to work on today.

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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