Robert Normandeau
Figures
Reissue of Robert Normandeau’s album of four acousmatic and mixed works from 1995 to 1999, including the Golden Nica winner Le renard et la rose, built from voices of a Little Prince radio play, and Figures de rhétorique with pianist Jacques Drouin.
Tangram
Five multitrack works by Robert Normandeau from 1990 to 1993, his “cinema for the ear” period, built from a child's voice, four teenagers, Mozart's chamber music and the elements, each recorded as a live diffusion over eight loudspeakers at The Banff…
Lieux Inouïs
Robert Normandeau's early acousmatic works from 1984 to 1989, his “cinema for the ear”: the many meanings of the word jeu, a requiem made only of requiem fragments, and music first written for Georges Dyens' holosculptures.
Puzzles
Five 16-channel works by Robert Normandeau from 2001 to 2003, concert pieces reworked from his theatre music for Brigitte Haentjens, including StrinGDberg for hurdy-gurdy and cello and the Fribourg prizewinner Chorus. 2017 reissue of the 2005 album.
Clair de Terre
Three acousmatic works by Robert Normandeau from 1999 to 2001: Malina, made only from Claire Marchand’s shakuhachi, Erinyes, frozen onomatopoeias of actors from a staging of Electra, and the 36-minute Clair de terre, which translates the grammar of c…
Mélancolie
Five works Robert Normandeau composed between 2013 and 2021 for a dome of loudspeakers, heard here as stereo “postcards”: a bandoneon-only Melancholia, a commission for the Montréal metro's 50th anniversary with the OSM's new octobass, and material f…
Dômes
Five works by Robert Normandeau from 2005 to 2014, several conceived for loudspeaker domes, from Karlsruhe trams and church bells in Kuppel to Baobabs, a Little Prince piece for four voices and the percussion group Sixtrum that won at Musica Nova 201…
Palimpsestes
Five acousmatic works by Robert Normandeau from 2005 to 2011, from the onomatopoeia piece Palimpseste to the 38-channel Anadliad for Welsh pibgorn and bagpipe and the reversible Palindrome, recorded with the organ and bells of Bourges cathedral.