Robert Normandeau
Robert Normandeau (born March 11, 1955 in Québec ) is a Canadian composer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music .
career
After completing his bachelor's degree in composition for electroacoustic music at Laval University in Québec in 1984 , Robert Normandeau moved to Montreal , where he completed his master’s degree in composition (1988) and received his first PhD in electroacoustic composition in 1992 under Marcelle Deschênes and Francis Dhomont . From 1986 to 1993 he was an active member of the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec (ACREQ), where he founded the Clair de terre concert series at the Montreal Planetarium. In 1991 he co-founded the Réseaux , an organization for the presentation of media art, in particular for the acousmatic concert series Rien à voir and Akousma . He is a founding member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Music Community (CEC, 1987).
After some interest in instrumental and live electronic works, his current endeavors have been focused on acousmatic music . In concrete terms, this means that his compositions are subject to aesthetic criteria according to which he creates a “cinema for the ears” in which “sense and sound” are the decisive elements that represent his works. Together with these works he deals with incidental music, especially for the theater.
Robert Normandeau has been Professor of Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Montreal since 1999 .
Awards
In 1999 he received the Prix Opus du Conseil québécois de la musique (CQM) award for his recording Figures in the category “Composer of the Year” and in the category “Record of the Year for Contemporary Music”. The Académie québécoise du théâtre (AQT) awarded him twice the Masque Award in the category "Best Theater Music ": in 2002 for the play Malina and in 2005 for the play La Cloche de verre.
Robert Normandeau has won numerous international competitions, including a. Prix Ars Electronica , Linz (Austria, 1993, "Goldene Nica" in 1996), Luigi Russolo , Varese (Italy, 1989 and 1990), Métamorphoses , Brussels (Belgium, 2002 and 2004), Musica Nova , Prague (Czech Republic, 1994, 1995 and 1998), Noroit-Léonce Petitot , Arras (France, 1991 and 1993), Phonurgia-Nova , Arles (France, 1987 and 1988) and Stockholm (Sweden, 1992) and the Giga-Hertz Prize (Karlsruhe, 2010 ).
Recordings (selection)
- Puzzles (2005)
- Clair de terre (2001)
- Sonars (2001)
- Figures (1999)
- Tangram (1999)
- Lieux inouïs (1998)
- Le petit prince d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1996)
- Tangram (1994)
- Lieux inouïs (1990)
literature
- Paland, Ralph: “In an acousmatic night: Electroacoustic Proust images by French-Canadian composers in the poetological context of Musique acousmatique.” In Marcel Proust and Music: Contributions to the symposium of the Marcel Proust Society in Vienna in November 2009 , Berlin 2012.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Normandeau, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian composer of electro-acoustic and acousmatic music |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quebec City |