January 24 to 29, 2002, Robert Normandeau, with collegues Réjean Poirier and Jean Saulnier from the music faculty of the University of Montréal, gave both a concert and a conference at the national superior music and dance conservatory in Lyon (France). His pieces “Le renard et la rose” (Figures) and “Erinyes” (Clair de terre) were played at the concert. He also gave a lecture to the students about his composition Clair de terre. The composer then moved to Marseille where he worked with the “Holophon,” a sonic spatialisation system conceived at the GMEM (Marseille’s experimental music group). The GMEM commissioned a work by the composer.