Normandeau creates pure adventures in sound. Crackles, animal kingdom sounds, machinery, electronic instrumentation and more flow from one to another. This series of sounds not only commands attention but is sufficiently dovetailed to strike the listener as musical. He refers to his suggestive style as “acousmantic music” in which Normandeau creates “cinema for the ear.” I can attest to his success in inspiring 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. (4.5/5)