Chantal Dumas

Chantal Dumas is a Montreal-based sound artist who has been exploring the medium of sound for some thirty years. Her work takes the form of narration and soundscapes, composition, listening journeys and installations. Field recording has become a natural practice for her, allowing her to capture moments of life and grasp their essence and emotion, thus developing a documentation of her environment. Over the years, a recurring theme has emerged (space, time, territory), highlighting an environmental awareness combined with a keen interest in listening. Cartography therefore naturally comes into play in this context as a structuring element in some of her projects.

In recent years, she has collaborated on numerous projects, to mention just a few: the Kamikaze du vendredi podcast by poet Amélie Prévost (Quadrature and Planète rebelle), Dream Voices with author Réjane Bougé, in which blind people describe what their dreams are made of (Turbine), Montréal Ville invisible with Florian Grond and the Regroupement des aveugles et amblyopes du Montréal métropolitain (RAAM) and l’Autre Montréal. (2021). Then she composes Oscillations planétaires an electroacoustic piece evoking the geological world (commissioned by DeutschlandFunk Kultur, Germany), which was a finalist for the 2019-20 Opus Award: Album of the Year. Published by Diffusion iMedia.