Robert Normandeau Explained

Robert Normandeau (born March 11, 1955) is a Canadian electroacoustic music composer.^{[1] [2]}

Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Normandeau studied at the Université Laval in Quebec City, and at the Université de Montréal, where he studied with Marcelle Deschênes and Francis Dhomont. He currently resides in Montreal, where he was appointed Professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition in 1999. With the release of Puzzles (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0575, 2005) he was the first on the label to embrace the short-lived high-quality if impractical DVD Audio format.^[3]

Recordings

• Puzzles (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0575, 2005)
• Clair de terre (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0157, 2001)
• Sonars (Rephlex, CAT 116, 2001)
• Figures (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9944, 1999)
• Tangram (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9920, 1999)
• Lieux inouïs (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9802, 1998)
• Le petit prince d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Radio-Canada, MVCD 1091, 1996)
• Tangram (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9419/20, 1994)
• Lieux inouïs (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9002, 1990)
• Normandeau, Spangiafora et al. Sonic Circuits 5 (Innova 114)

List of works

• Bédé (1990)
• Le cap de la tourmente (1984–1985)
• La chambre blanche (1985–1986)
• Chat noir (1995)
• Chorus (2002), 16-track tape
• Clair de terre (1999)
• Convergence Radio (1989)
• Éclats de voix (1991)
• Éden (2003), 16-track tape
• Électre suite (2000)
• Ellipse (1999)
• L'envers du temps (1998, 2000), guitar, and tape
• Erinyes (2001)
• Erinyes pour Lucie (2005), interactive system; choreography by Lucie Grégoire
• Figures de rhétorique (1997), tape, and piano
• The Flautist (2001)
• Fragments (1992)
• Hamlet-Machine with Actors (2003), 16-track tape
• Jeu (1989)
• Jeu blanc (2001), tape, and flute
• Kuppel (2006)
• Malina (2000)
• Matériau pour Médée (2005)
• Matrechka (1986)
• Mémoires vives (1989)
• Musique holographique (1984–1985)
• Palimpseste (2005, 06)
• Palindrome (2005–2006)
• Le petit prince (1994)
• Puzzle (2003), 16-track tape
• Le renard et la rose (1995)
• Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck) (1987)
• Spleen (1993)
• StrinGDberg (2001–2003), 16-track tape
• Tangram (1992)
• Tropes (1991)
• Venture (1998)

Further reading

• Paland, Ralph. “In akusmatischer Nacht: Elektroakustische Proust-Bilder franko-kanadischer Komponisten im poetologischen Kontext der Musique acousmatique.” In Marcel Proust und die Musik: Beiträge des Symposions der Marcel Proust Gesellschaft in Wien im November 2009, edited by Albert Gier, 233–84. Berlin: Insel Verlag, 2012. .
• Steenhuisen, Paul. "Interview with Robert Normandeau". In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009. .

External links

• Biography on electrocd.com
• Ogborn, David. “Interview with Robert Normandeau.” eContact! 11.2 — Figures canadiennes (2) / Canadian Figures (2) (July 2009). Montréal: CEC.

Notes and References

1. Book: Don Michael Randel . The Harvard Dictionary of Music . 2003 . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . 288 . 978-0-674-01163-2 .
2. News: Chris Yurkiw . On the 50th anniversary of "musique concrète," Montreal's electroacoustic composers are still watching the cement dry . Mirror . Montreal . 1998-02-11 . 2010-08-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120701005320/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1998/021298/music1.html . 2012-07-01 .
3. Web site: 29-July-2012 Interview On Outsight Radio Hours. Archive.org. 19 August 2012.