Chantal Dumas
radio artist/composer


Chantal Dumas is interested in new musical and sonic forms of expression. Her favorite medium is radio. Since 1993, she has created, realized and produced radio as an independent producer. Her production
explores different methods of narration through sound. Her "stories" have been aired by national radios in Canada, Europe, and Australia and in festivals as well.

Chantal Dumas has received grants from the Canada Council and the Fondation Beaumarchais in France. In 1994, she won an award at the First Hörspiel radio creation competition - Acoustic Art, organized by La Muse en Circuit and Sacem in collaboration with Radio France. Her work The Perfume of Women received
the First Prize in the Ars Acustica category of the EAR '97 International Electroacoustic Competition (Hungary) as well as the SACD prize for fiction from the 7th Phonurgia Nova / France (97)
international radio creation competition.

Her work can be found on CD's published by Ohm éditions/ AVATAR (Québec) and Nonsequitur (USA).


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