Robert Normandeau
Robert Normandeau was 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.
Robert Normandeau

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- 1955 · Quebec City.
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- Canada
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- composer
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• 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)
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)
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Robert Normandeau (naissance : 11 mars 1955) figure comme compositeur dans les notices d'autorité de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. La naissance de Robert Normandeau est enregistrée le 11 mars 1955. Lieu d'activité enregistré par la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek : Montréal.
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- 1.Don Michael Randel. The Harvard Dictionary of Music. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 288. 2003. 978-0-674-01163-2.
- 2.Chris Yurkiw. On the 50th anniversary of "musique concrète," Montreal's electroacoustic composers are still watching the cement dry. Mirror. 1998-02-11.
- 3.29-July-2012 Interview On Outsight Radio Hours. Archive.org.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- 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. .
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