Interface[s] Montréal

Digital Audio and Music

Robert Normandeau

Composer and Professor in Electrocoustic Music Composition

The medium is the space

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What is specific to the acousmatic medium, is its virtuality. The sound and the projection source are not liked together. What is unique here is the possibility to fragment the spectrum in the space, which is a complete different experience than with instrumental music. This is what I call the timbre spatialization: the whole spectra is found only virtually in the space of the concert hall. Each point represents only a part of the ensemble.

Having produced several instrumental and mixed works, his current endeavors are focused on acousmatic music. More specifically, his compositions employ æsthetic criteria whereby he creates a ‘cinema for the ear’ in which `meaning´ as well as `sound´ become elements which elaborate his works. Along with concert music he now writes incidental music, especially for the theater.