Robert Normandeau

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Robert Normandeau (born March 11, 1955) is a Canadian electroacoustic music composer. [1] [2]

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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. 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 DVD Audio format. [3]

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References

  1. Don Michael Randel (2003). The Harvard Dictionary of Music. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 288. ISBN   978-0-674-01163-2.
  2. Chris Yurkiw (1998-02-11). "On the 50th anniversary of "musique concrète," Montreal's electroacoustic composers are still watching the cement dry". Mirror. Montreal. Archived from the original on 2012-07-01. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
  3. "29-July-2012 Interview On Outsight Radio Hours". Archive.org. Retrieved 19 August 2012.

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