Chantal Dumas

A 49-minute work in nine movements by Chantal Dumas, commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and premiered in 2018, on the undulating motions of the Earth: earthquakes, mantle convection, geysers, earth tides, geomagnetism and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

From Montreal across the Prairies to the North-Western Arctic, down to the Pacific and back through the Badlands. The Mercury minivan took to the road, loaded with recording equipment, tools, DAT cassettes, tent, Coleman burner, sleeping bags and coo…