- Free
- Starts at 5:30 PM
- Listening session at 6:00 PM
- No entry after 7:00 PM
- Snacks and wine provided
Just back from a launch tour in France and Belgium, Chantal Dumas comes to OBORO (Montreal) on January 23, as of 5:30 PM, to launch her recent compilations.
In November 2018, Avatar invited Chantal Dumas to begin creating a sound work as part of a major publishing project on her practice, highlighting twenty-five years of creation. Almost one year later, Avatar is proud to present the publication of Dialogues avec/with Chantal Dumas.
Conceived as a conversation and edited by Caroline Gagné, this ambitious project has two parts, the first of which, Volume 1, presents sound work under the theme of Sound-Refuge, including a new radio work by Dumas.
Volume 1 also offers three original sound works created by artists Anna Friz, Carole Rieussec, and Erin Sexton. These works resonate with Dumas’s art, breathing life into a dialogue that draws the public in. “Nothing but Water,”
a text by Céline Huyghebaert inspired by these works, completes this compilation.
In addition, the volume includes a selection of seventeen works, created between 1993 and 2017 and accompanied by notes, which offer various tracks of reading and listening, or vice versa.
Dialogues avec/with Chantal Dumas Volume 2 is the title of a finely-designed publication, a rhythmic object that stimulates senses. The authors, all experts in the field, examine the work and evolution of the sound artist’s practice. Developed through conversations with Dumas, their texts understand sound as a fully-fledged language.
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LAUNCH: New on the empreintes DIGITALes label.
Oscillations Planétaires evokes the geological world.
Commissioned for radio by Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Germany) and created in 2018, Oscillations Planétaires explores some of the most intimate phenomena on Earth.
From all the layers that compose it, from the core to the surface area, planet Earth is shaped by waveforms that operate on extremely different time scales. While some are part of geologic time, others respond to daily rhythms. These oscillations affect the mechanisms that regulate the dynamics of Earth. With the participation of Daniel Anez, Claire Marchand, Christian Olsen, Ida Toninato, and Thierry Gauthier.
Desired or not, the overall take-away affect of the album is a concrete eco-consciousness. There isn’t an ounce of proselytism herein. — Toneshift, ÉU
As evocations of the grandeur of terrestrial existence goes, Oscillations planétaires is rather remarkably successful, its balance between simulation and abstract allusion finely judged. — Freq, RU
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