Bede

Bedè ha sempre amato i suoi campi, l’orto, i terrazzamenti che coltiva in quell’angolo di Liguria che gli uomini e Dio pare abbiano dimenticato. Ogni mattina si alza presto e si inventa mille scuse per portarsi dietro i figli e cercare di contagiare loro il rispetto per la natura. Ma, come quasi tutti i giovani, sembra siano più impegnati a crearsi un futuro altrove, a studiare… Per Bedè è un vero dramma, perché, con il trascorrere degli anni, il peso che deve sopportare diviene sempre più faticoso…

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.

The medieval era was a watershed in Western history. This was a time of extraordinary advances in numerous fields of knowledge ranging from philosophy and theology to science, medicine, literature, and economics—as well as of revolutionary developments in education and the birth of the university. In its effects, this fascinating epoch was not only a time of great innovation, it was the era in which the seeds of the modern West were sown.