(b. 11 March 1955, Québec, Québec).
Canadian composer of mostly stage and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the world.
Prof. Normandeau earned his BMus in electroacoustic music at the Université Laval in Québec, Québec in 1984. He later studied with Marcelle Deschênes and Francis Dhomont at the Université de Montréal, where he earned his MMus in composition in 1988 and DMus in electroacoustic composition in 1992.
Among his honours are prizes in the Concours International de Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges (1986, 1988, 1993), the Prix Phonurgia Nova in Arles (1987–88), prizes in the competition Luigi Russolo in Varese (1989–90), the Prix International Noroit-Léonce Petitot in Arras (1991, 1994), a prize in the competition in Stockholm (1992), two prizes from the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz (1993; Golden Nica, 1996), prizes in the competition Musica Nova in Prague (1994–95, 1998), two Prix Opus from the Conseil québécois de la musique in Montréal (Compositeur de l'année, 2000; Disque de l'année – musiques actuelle, contemporaine, électroacoustique, 2000), a prize in the competition for sacred music in Fribourg (2002), the Masque for theatre music from the Académie québécoise du théâtre (2002, for Malina), and the Produktionspreis of the Giga-Hertz-Preis für elektronische Musik in Karlsruhe (2010).
He is also active in other positions. He was as a member of the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustique du Québec (ACREQ) from 1986–93, for which he produced the concert series Clair de terre at the Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan in Montréal. He co-founded the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) in 1987 and co-founded the concert society for acousmatic music Réseaux in 1991, which has produced the concert series Rien à voir since 1997.
He has taught as an associate professor of electroacoustic-music composition at the Université de Montréal since 1999.
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE:
Roberto Zucco (incidental music, play by Bernard-Marie Koltès), fixed media, 1993 (collaboration with Denis Gougeon)
Krapp's Last Tape and Not I (incidental music, plays by Samuel Beckett), fixed media, 1994
Merz variétés (incidental music, play by Kurt Schwitters), fixed media, 1995
Quartett (incidental music, play by Heiner Müller), fixed media, 1996
Le Pont de pierres et la Peau d'images (incidental music, play by Daniel Danis), fixed media, 1996
Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur (incidental music, play by Molière), fixed media, 1997
Nathan der Weise (incidental music, play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing), fixed media, 1997 (collaboration with Denis Gougeon)
The Crucible (incidental music, play by Arthur Miller), fixed media, 1998
Malina (incidental music, play by Brigitte Haentjens, after Ingeborg Bachmann), fixed media, 2000
Electra (incidental music, play by Sophocles), fixed media, 2000
Fröken Julie – Miss Julie (incidental music, play by August Strindberg), fixed media, 2001
Die Hamletmaschine (incidental music, play by Heiner Müller), fixed media, 2001 (also concert versions as Hamlet-Machine with Actors, fixed media; Hamlet-Machine without Actors, fixed media)
Credo (incidental music, play by Enzo Cormann), fixed media, 2001
Antigone (incidental music, play by Sophocles), fixed media, 2002
L'Éden Cinéma (incidental music, play by Marguerite Duras), fixed media, 2003 (also concert version as Éden, fixed media)
Elle est là (incidental music, play by Nathalie Sarraute), fixed media, 2003
Farces conjugales (incidental music, play by Brigitte Haentjens, after Georges Feydeau), fixed media, 2003
Érinyes pour Lucie (dance music, choreography by Lucie Grégoire), fixed media, 2005
Medeamaterial (incidental music, play by Heiner Müller), fixed media, 2005
CHAMBER MUSIC:
L'Envers du temps, guitar, fixed media, 1998–2000
Jeu blanc, flute, fixed media, 2001
La Huppe, recorder, fixed media, live electronics, 2011 (collaboration with Terri Hron)
VOCAL:
Baobabs, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, 6 percussion, fixed media, 2013
PIANO:
Figures de rhétorique, piano, fixed media, 1997
ELECTROACOUSTIC:
Le Cap de la tourmente, fixed media, 1984–85
La Chambre blanche, fixed media, 1985–86, revised 2007
Matrechka, fixed media, 1986
Reliqua Terræ (sound installation), fixed media, 1986
Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck), fixed media, 1987
Jeu, fixed media, 1988
Mémoires vives, fixed media, 1989
Bédé, fixed media, 1990
Éclats de voix, fixed media, 1991
Tropes, fixed media, 1991
Tangram, fixed media, 1992
Spleen, fixed media, 1993
Le Renard et la Rose, fixed media, 1995
Chat noir, fixed media, 1995
Ellipse, fixed media, 1998
Venture, fixed media, 1998
Clair de terre, fixed media, 1999, revised 2009
Printemps du Québec (sound installation), fixed media, 1999
The Flautist, fixed media, 2001
Érinyes, fixed media, 2001
Chorus, fixed media, 2002
Strin(G/D)berg, fixed media, 2001–03
Éden, fixed media, 2003 (concert version of L'Éden Cinéma)
Hamlet-Machine with Actors, fixed media, 2003 (concert version of Die Hamletmaschine)
Puzzle, fixed media, 2003
Palimpseste, fixed media, 2005, revised 2011
Kuppel, fixed media, 2005–06, revised 2010
Palindrome, fixed media, 2005–07
Murmures, fixed media, 2007, revised 2011
Jeu de langues, fixed media, 2009
Anadliad, fixed media, 2010
Like Radio, fixed media, 2010
La Part des anges, fixed media, 2011–12
Pluies noires, fixed media, 2008–13
L'Engloutissement, fixed media, 2013
Hamlet-Machine without Actors, fixed media, 2013 (concert version of Die Hamletmaschine)
RADIO PRODUCTIONS:
Le Petit Prince (text by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry), fixed media, 1994
Duo pour voix obstinées (text by Maryse Pelletier), fixed media, 1995
Monitoring pour une planète bleue (texts by Jacques Godbout, Florian Sauvageau), fixed media, 1996
FILM SCORES (DIRECTOR):
Georges Dyens, de la sculpture à l'holosculpture, fixed media, 1985 (Yves Racicot)
Sur le seuil, fixed media, 2002 (Éric Tessier)
MULTIMEDIA/PERFORMANCE:
Musique holographique, sound holosculptures, 1984–85
SELECT DISCOGRAPHY
Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck). (Le Chant du Monde: LDC 278 046/47, 1989)
Jeu; Le Cap de la tourmente; Matrechka; Mémoires vives; Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck). (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 9002, 1990 [reissued as empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 9802, 1998])
Bédé. (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 9004, 1990 [reissued as empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 9604, 1996])
Matrechka (excerpt). (Radio Canada International: ACM-37, 1990)
Éclats de voix. (INA/GRM/Noroit: Nor 2, 1991)
Bédé; Éclats de voix; Spleen; Tangram; Tropes. (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 9419/20, 1994 [reissued as empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 9920, 1999])
Spleen. (INA/GRM/Noroit: Nor 3, 1994)
Le Renard et la Rose. (Société Radio-Canada: MVCD 1091, 1995)
Mémoires vives. (ICMC, 1996)
Le Renard et la Rose. (ORF, 1996)
Tangram. (Sombient–Asphodel: 0966, 1996)
La Chambre blanche (original version). (¿What Next?: WN0019, 1996)
Le Renard et la Rose; Figures de rhétorique; Venture; Ellipse. Jacques Drouin, piano (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 9944, 1999 [reissued as empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 0944, 2009])
Le Renard et la Rose. (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 0050, 2000)
Malina; Érinyes; Clair de terre (original version). (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 0157, 2001)
Bédé; Éclats de voix; Ellipse; Le Cap de la tourmente; Matrechka; Spleen. (Rephlex Records: CAT 116, 2001)
Puzzle; Éden; Chorus; Strin(G/D)berg; Hamlet-Machine with Actors. (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 0575, 2005)
Palimpseste (original version). (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 09100, 2009)
Palimpseste (revised version); Murmures; Jeu de langues; Anadliad; Palindrome. (empreintes DIGITALes: IMED 12116, 2012)