Now directed by Nicolas Bernier, Réseaux presents Akousma (5), Electroacoustic Musics Festival, on December 9 to 13, 2008 at the Monument-National in Montréal. On the main menu? 4 double bills: Pete Stollery / Jacques Poulin-Denis + Martin Messier; Georges Forget / Sébastien Roux; Christian Bouchard / Phroq (Francisco Meirino); Darren Copeland + Andreas Kahre / Robert Normandeau. Plus conferences and workshops.

Robert Normandeau will be composer in residence at Bangor University (Whales, UK) from October 20 to 31, 2008 as the 2008-09 Parry Williams Visiting Composer Fellow. He will start the composition of a new piece to be premiered in 2009. During his residency, he will give a conference, a master class, and on October 30 a concert solo of recent works: Murmures, Palimpseste, Kuppel, Chorus, and StrinGDberg. The same evening Jonty Harrison will premiere his piece Phantom Power.

Robert Normandeau’s Pluies noires (Black Rains), a work co-comissionned by Miso Music (Portugal) and Réseaux (Montréal), by will premiere on September 25, 2008 during the Festival Música Viva in Lisbon (Portugal). The work will also be presented on December 13 during Akousma (5) in Montréal. In Portugal, Robert Normandeau will also present Le renard et la rose along with two more works commissioned by Réseaux: Parcelles 2 by Christian Bouchard, and Ouest (a mouvement from Atlas) by Christian Calon.

Robert Normandeau is one of the artists invited to celebrate the opening of EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) in Troy (NY, USA). He will present a concert of multiphonic works on a 40-loudspeaker diffusion system on October 9, 2008 at 9 pm. On the programme: Le renard et la rose, Tangram, Kuppel, and Chorus.

Robert Normandeau has been invited to perform during the Liquid Architecture 9 festival taking place in Australia. He will give a concert on July 11, 2008 (7:30 pm) at The Factory Theatre in Sydney, and on July 19 (9 pm) at the Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall in Melbourne.

Robert Normandeau has been invited as an international keynote speaker for the ACMC on July 10-12, 2008 in Sydney (Australia). This year’s conference theme ‘Sound:Space’ aims to encourage discussion of contemporary issues including: performance of electroacoustic music, music and the Internet, Surround sound in recording, composition and performance.