Chantal Dumas explores the medium of sound through the production of radiophonic fictions or docu-fictions (Hoerspiel), electroacoustic musics and sound installations. Dumas uses sound to chart a new approach to listening and perception. Combining music, narrative, and real-world sounds, she constructs stories that encourage listeners to establish their own sense of a narrative. Her work invites listeners on a ramble through various spaces: mental and physical, architectural and urban, natural and cultural. She has produced over 25 radio pieces. He music and radio works are broadcasted on radios and festivals in Europe, Canada, the USA and the Australia. Her work has received awards. Lately, her work Les petits riens – mécanique du quotidien got: the Prix Bohemia (Czeck Republic) and the Opus Prize for the best electroacoustic concert.In parallel to her musical and radio works, she pursues a research which questions the relation in between the mobility, the sound, the space and the listener and which presents under the shape of sound installations. Her latest work Le vivant bruit du corps, an interactive immersive sound installation stages two wooden chairs from which a whole sound universe develops. >> http://vimeo.com/21803964 She got commissioned from : Kunstradio (ORF, Austria), DeutschlandRadio Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, SFB radio (D), CBC (CDN), silenceradio.org (Bxls/BE), Espace du son Radio-Canada, la RSR Couleur 3 (Swizerland), AVATAR (Qc), radio grenouille (Marseilles/F), Communauté électroacoustique canadienne (CEC), NAISA (Toronto), Open Space Gallery — (Victoria-BC), Quartier éphémère (Mtl), La Muse en Circuit (Paris/F), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago/USA). She is in New York with a 6 month residency from the Quebec Art Council. www.chantaldumas.org
