Robert Normandeau is listed in The Animal Collective Centipedia of the 127 most important influencial avant-guardist musicians established by the members of the American band Animal Collective and published in Septembre 2012 by American magazine Spin.

The 16th Opus Prizes winners were announced yesterday, January 27, 2013, in Montréal. The “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics” is Palimpsestes by Robert Normandeau.

The Concert international presented by Musiques & Recherches on February 27, 2013 at Espace Senghor in Brussels (Belgium) will feature works by Elizabeth Anderson, Adrian Moore, Robert Normandeau, Zuriñe F Gerenabarrena, and Irene Pacini. There will be a pre-concert talk with Elizabeth Anderson about her new 8-track work Solar Winds which premiered in October 2012 in Mexico.

Both trans_canada reloaded concerts on November 29, 2012 are part of the Sounds: GRM Akusmonium and Sound Dome series of the Imatronic Extended festival at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany). These two concerts present works by Robert Normandeau (including the premiere of the final version of La part des anges), Francis Dhomont, Gilles Gobeil, Louis Dufort, and Barry Truax. The Imatronic Extended festival will take place from November 21 to December 2, is made fo the several series — Piano+, Neuroaesthetics, Sounds: GRM Akusmonium and Sound Dome, TBA21 Sound Space: Spatial Music — and includes the Giga-Hertz-Prize 2012 ceremony.

On November 12, 2012 at the Black Box of the Helsinki Music Centre, the Sibelius Academy produces an acousmatic concert with Switched on by Manuella Blackburn, Rumeurs (Place de Ransbeck) by Robert Normandeau and works by Adam Basanta, Visa Kuoppala, Timothy Cooper, and James Andean.

The Musica Nova 2012 International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Prague, Czech Republic) announced its first prizes: Toys by Orestis Karamanlis and Music for a Maverick by Roderik de Man. Mentions were given to Machin de machine by Francis Dhomont, La part des anges by Robert Normandeau, Irama by Felipe Otondo, Fantasy by Yu-Chung Tseng, and behind the light by Hans Tutschku.