Normandeau is one of the leading contemporary musique concrète artists, and this, his third solo release, makes it easy to see why. His attention to sonic detail is unmatched, and each of his pieces amply rewards repeated and careful listening.

Berceuses (Lullabies) is a collection of works specially created for this occasion, mixed by Michel Redolfi, composer and founding member of the GMEM (Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille), illustrated byCorneille, dutch painter, one of the founders of the CoBrA movement, who died in september 2010 and was commissioned by Centre international de recherche musicale, Nice, France. It includes works of Jean-Louis Agobet, Drew Neumann, John Cage, Pascal Dusapin, Michel Pascal, François-Bernard Mâche, Luc Ferrari, Luc Martinez, Nicolas Frize, Marc Monnet, Bernard Parmegiani, Robert Ashley, Volker Parker, Alex Grillo, Georges Aperghis, François Bayle, Steve Shehan, Tom Johnson, Henry Fourès, Gilles Grand, Giorogio Batistelli.

Berceuses (Lullabies) is a collection of works specially created for this occasion, mixed by Michel Redolfi, composer and founding member of the GMEM (Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille), illustrated byCorneille, dutch painter, one of the founders of the CoBrA movement, who died in september 2010 and was commissioned by Centre international de recherche musicale, Nice, France. It includes works of Jean-Louis Agobet, Drew Neumann, John Cage, Pascal Dusapin, Michel Pascal, François-Bernard Mâche, Luc Ferrari, Luc Martinez, Nicolas Frize, Marc Monnet, Bernard Parmegiani, Robert Ashley, Volker Parker, Alex Grillo, Georges Aperghis, François Bayle, Steve Shehan, Tom Johnson, Henry Fourès, Gilles Grand, Giorogio Batistelli.

Tod Dockstader - Quatermass (1992)

In the 1940s, before magnetic tape was widely available in the United States, electronic music pioneer Tod Dockstader made low-fi recordings on steel wire.
Born in 1932, Dockstader was part of the first wave of electronic musicians, who, before the advent of synthesizers in the early 1960s, worked with whatever hardware they could find: reel-to-reel tape machines, sine wave generators and a wild array of homemade circuits and military surplus gear. In the process, they created a universe of electronic music that still sounds unique and prescient today

Normandeau creates pure adventures in sound. Crackles, animal kingdom sounds, machinery, electronic instrumentation, and more flow from one to the next. This series of sounds not only commands attention but is sufficiently dovetailed to strike the listener as musical. Normandeau refers to his suggestive style as "acousmantic music" in which he creates "cinema for the ear." His approach inspires mental images as effectively as other music creates moods. Like the well-known Chinese puzzle, the composer puts together superficially incongruous sound-shapes into arresting and imaginative aural sculptures.