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Robert Normandeau
Lieux inouis
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.date Nov-07-2004
.style Avantgarde
.label empreintes DIGITALes
.cat.no. IMED-9002 CD
.source CDDA
.type Album
.quality VBRkbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
.size 130,7 MB
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Liner Notes:
La Rochefoucault said that certain people would never have known love if
they had not been told about it. By extension, we may say that certain
sonic landscapes, thought colors, certain states and manifestations of
the soul would remain forever muted, if electroacoustics had not sprung
forth from nowhereùunexpected and inevitable.
When the time has come to write our centuryÆs music history, and the
endless fights have died for lack of combatants, this expanse of sonic
universe will take its rightful place. But, at this point in time, where
is this new language? To be a language, one needs a vocabulary, a
syntax, and a grammar; the joy and the pain of electroacoustics is that
every work demands the invention of its own language, otherwise, without
meaning to, it falters as imitation. And at this point we havenÆt even
spoken of style! Each explorer of this acoustical forest must leave a
trail to guide the listener, without for a moment destroying the magic.
And this is where Normandeau is. He never leads the listener into a
sonorific labyrinth of which he himself is not master and experienced
traveler. The idea of listenability, so often missing in the past 50
years, returns in force with him without surcoming to facility or the
mundane. He speaks his own ideas with his own voiceùeach work distinct,
while clearly members of the same family.
In a word: enjoy!
Georges Nicholson, Montreal, February 1990
Review
Lieux inou∩s is a digitally remixed reissue of NormandeauÆs 1990 debut
release. Normandeau is one of CanadaÆs premiere electroacoustic
composers and Lieux inou∩s is a collection of five compositions recorded
between 1985 and 1989. The order on the disc is from newest to oldest.
The opening composition Jeu is 24 minutes of sonic cinema based on
different uses of ôjeu,ö French for game or play. This is a playful
piece utilizing somewhat realistic and often unrecognizable sounds that
metamorphose every one to two minutes. Jeu has a distinct Stockhausenian
feel with its use of multi-layered sounds. In fact excerpts of
StockhausenÆs Hymnen appear along with children at play, jazz music,
crashing chairs, jack hammers, etc. The next composition, MΘmoires
vives, is NormandeauÆs study of a requiem. Etheral choirs accelerate and
spin in and out of hearing alternating with electronics and sampled
acoustic instruments. This is an interesting piece that can at times
sound coldly sterile and then warmly engaging. Stepping back now to
1987, the third composition is Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck), an
electroacoustic piece best thought of as an acoustic analogy of a rumor.
Again, a collage of elusive sounds that scurry away as you try to study
and identify them. It does have some similarities to Pink FloydÆs
Several Small Speciesà The fourth composition is Matrechka. Just like
the nested Russian dolls, Matrechka is a series of musical unveilings
revealing smaller and more interesting ôdolls.ö The disc closes with the
oldest and shortest composition Le cap de la tourmente. This is a piece
of drones that cycically sweep across the sonic space alternating
appearances and disappearances of the sculptures is was composed to
accompany. Lieux inouis is a diverse collection of fairly accessible
electroacoustic music and is a good introduction to the genre.
Henry Schneider
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01 Jeu 23:58
02 Memoires vives 15:59
03 Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck) 12:19
04 Matrechka 13:56
05 Le cap de la tourmente 07:23
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