Robert Normandeau au salle Claude-Champagne

Robert Normandeau (born March 11, 1955) is a

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electroacoustic music Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instrumen ...

composer. Born in

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, Normandeau studied at the

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in Quebec City, and at the

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, where he studied with

Marcelle Deschênes Marcelle Deschênes-Harvey née Price (born 2 March 1939) is a Canadian multi-media artist, music educator and composer of electroacoustic music. She was a professor at the University of Montreal. Early life and education Marcelle Deschênes was ...

and

Francis Dhomont Francis Dhomont (born 2 November 1926) is a French composer of electroacoustic / acousmatic music. Biography Born in Paris, Dhomont studied composition under Ginette Waldmeier, Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger. In 1963 he decided to dedic ...

. He currently resides in

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, 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

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format.

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'' (

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, 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

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* ''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)

References

External links

Biography on electrocd.com
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Recordings

List of works

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