Born in Drummondville (Qu\u00e9bec), she studied Jaques-Dalcroze eurhythmics at Universit\u00e9 Laval (Qu\u00e9bec, Qu\u00e9bec) in 1982. Decades later, she studied interactive media at Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (UQAM, 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Upon her arrival in Montr\u00e9al in 1984, she embraced radio through community stations and developed a keen interest for new music, electroacoustic art, improvised music, and world music. Out of these experiences, she would develop an approach of sound that expressed itself in compositions, radio art, sound narratives, sound installations, and sound design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The microphone is one of her most beloved tools, and she sees listening as a way to embrace the world. Dumas is fond of field recordings; she collects the sounds of her environment to use them as raw material in her productions. \u201cGetting out of the studio allows one to meet the world, but also to risk being confronted by unpredictability and fragility.\u201d Fond of the uniqueness of the voice, she writes narratives where voice and sounds intertwine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In her productions, Dumas approaches various themes, some of them more often: time, space, territory, the elsewhere, listening. Cartography inserts itself naturally as a subtext in her compositions, acting as a structural element (for instance: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the title Dorsale m\u00e9dio-atlantique<\/a>, a movement of Oscillations plan\u00e9taires<\/a> (2017-18, 19), or 86400 Seconds \u2014 Time Zones<\/a> (2015)) or as a framework for improvisation (40\u00b0 Nord \u2014 73\u00b0 West<\/a> (2012)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her work can encompass a participatory dimension that takes the shape of an immersive experience set inside a device or an active participation in the creative process, depending on the work. To stage, to put into play, and to make one experience are strategies aimed at making audio creation an art of sensory contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dumas\u2019s work has drawn the interest of several foreign radios, with broadcasts on ABC (Australia), BBC (United Kingdom), Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Germany), ORF Kunstradio (Austria), Sveriges Radio P2 (Sweden), and Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Radio-Canada, among others. Her works have also been programmed by several festivals. You may have heard her work as part of the exhibit C\u2019est arriv\u00e9 pr\u00e8s de chez vous (2009) at the Mus\u00e9e national des beaux-arts de Qu\u00e9bec (MNBAQ); experienced her installations and compositions at the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV); or heard her interventions in a Montr\u00e9al subway car as part of artist Rose-Marie E Goulet\u2019s Ligne de fuite (2007); at Maison fontaine (L\u2019or bleu, 2014) presented by the Goethe-Institut Montr\u00e9al in the Quarter des spectacles (Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec); or as part of the concert series Experimental Intermedia (2011) and Harvestworks (2012) in New York City (USA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n She enjoys collaborations and encounters with other disciplines. Worth noting are her outings with Marc Boivin (dance), Fortner Anderson<\/a>, Nicole Brossard<\/a>, Sylvain Campeau<\/a>, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Dorion<\/a>, Genevi\u00e8ve Letarte<\/a>, Chantal Neveu<\/a>, Simon Dumas and Rhizome (poetry), Magali Babin<\/a> (visual arts), Michel Huneault (photography), Rose-Marie E Goulet (public art), Katherine Liberovskaya (video), Shelley Hirsch<\/a>, Christian Calon<\/a>, Mario Gauthier<\/a>, Martin T\u00e9treault<\/a>, and the ensembles Le grand happening and God\u2019Ar<\/a> (sound art).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chantal Dumas\u2019s works have earned her awards and distinctions from Prix Opus (Qu\u00e9bec, 2009-10), Concours international Phonurgia Nova (France, 1997, 2001), and Prix Bohemia Radio (Czech Republic, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n She has received grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec (CALQ) and the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA), and was invited for residencies at the Studio du Qu\u00e9bec in New York City (USA, 2011) and Les R\u00e9collets in Paris (France, 2016). She presided the jury of the Concours international Phonurgia Nova (2016, 17). In 2017, she was the keynote speaker at the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the fall of 2019, the Qu\u00e9bec-based audio and electronic artists centre Avatar will launch a major bilingual book that retraces Chantal Dumas\u2019s creative career. To tie in with this publication, fifteen works culled from her repertoire will be made available for free streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Born in Drummondville (Qu\u00e9bec), she studied Jaques-Dalcroze eurhythmics at Universit\u00e9 Laval (Qu\u00e9bec, Qu\u00e9bec) in 1982. Decades later, she studied interactive media at Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (UQAM, 2012). 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