Chantal Dumas’s work takes the form of narratives, soundscapes, compositions, listening tours and installations. Over the years, he has developed a thematic recurrence (space, time, territory) underlining an environmental awareness that combines with a keen interest in listening.
Dumas has been a resident at the Studio du Québec in New York (CALQ-2011) and at the Studio des Récollets in Paris (CALQ-2016), and has benefited from numerous artist residencies at Quebec artist-run centers. She has been awarded the Prix Opus - Concert en musique électroacoustique (2009, Qc) and the Bohemia (Czech Republic) and Phonurgia Nova (Fr) radio awards. Her album Oscillations planétaires, which evokes the geological world, was a finalist for Album of the Year at the Prix Opus 2019-20. Her work has been widely broadcast on European public radio stations and at international festivals.
She is regularly invited to take part in cultural mediation projects in various contexts (MeM, RAAM, Les Incomplètes, Espace Projet), where she invites the public to set off on a voyage of discovery of sonic territories. In this spirit, she and Magali Babin created the Villeray acoustique listening tour: https://mtlacoustique.com
In fall 2023, she co-organized with Frédéric Dallaire the colloquium Le Partage des écoutes associated with the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Arts and Science - Department of Art History and Film Studies.