In Le petit homme dans l’oreille (The Little Man in the Ear) materials are presented with little transformation. Only to better the listening clarity did we apply some processing. On the other hand we took at times the liberty to radically transform the original sound materials.

Executive Production: Mario Gauthier for L’Espace du son, Radio-Canada. Grand Prix du documentaire Phonurgia Nova 2001. Thanks to Mike Krutko, Lillian Ireland, Rob Dramer and to all the anonymous voices who inspired us to create this sound travel.

Awards

• Grand Prize, Phonurgia Nova 2001, Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, France)

Plane and children games at the 45th Annual Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede; wind in trees and leaves at the Medicine Wheel, Spirit Sands, MB; wind in a corn field near Austin, MB.

Ambience, voices and fiddle competition in Austin, MB.

Carriage race and voice at the Stampede in Austin, MB.

Yellowhead Hwy around Lanigan, SK; cricket, Jasper National Park, AB.

Conversation with Mike Krutko in his camper, Dawson City.

6:30 AM, Fish Creek in Hyder, AK.

Columbia Icefield, AB (source of the Sunwapta River); Duke River, YK, in the Kluane National Park; steel bridge on the Skeena River, BC.

Driving, voice and music on the Dempster Hwy, YK.

At the polar arctic circle on the Dempster Hwy, YK.

Thunderstorm and wind in Pink Mountain, BC.

Raven in Beaver Creek, YK; meeting of chiefs in the Gitksan village of Kispiox, BC; acoustics of the cedar forest and train in Goldstream Park, BC; raven and ambience in Dawson City, YK.

Windmills on the Crownest Hwy, AB; children in Crowsnest, AB; Mike K.; pork chops cooking, tent, minivan, Demolition Derby; chimes in Wawa, ON.

On the Dempster Hwy: Mike K., minivan side door, Inuvialuit voice and music on CBC, short wave signals; song and calls by Rob Dramer.

Trains and level crossing in Cranbrook, BC and Thunder Bay, ON; diesel and steam agricultural machines in Austin, MB; bakery in White Horse, YK and chimes in Wawa, ON.

Pacific Ocean; sirens and ferry for Nanaimo, BC; fog-horn near Tofino, BC; Victoria, BC.

Train and level crossing in Watrous, SK; Redberry Lake, SK.

Voices and echos in the Ouimet Canyon, ON.

Wind in a corn field on Route 2, SK; wind Spirit Sands, MB.

Night birds and insects on the Lake of the Woods, ON and Redberry Lake, SK.

Minimalist, hyperrealistic, Documents de surface glides over the surface of the earth, very close as would a zoomed in camera, or on the contrary in wide panoramas, that is where narrative dissolves in the sound material.

Executive Production: Robert Matejka for Werkstatt. DeutschlandRadio Berlin.

Magdalene Islands ferry, QC; Marsh with birds and frogs (green frogs) at Papineau-Labelle and Rouge-Matawin wildlife preserves, QC.

Common Raven, Beaver Creek, YK; CP train in the Thompson River canyon south of Cache Creek, BC.

Cows at sunset in a prairie overlooking the ocean, Magdalene Islands, QC.

Winds over corn and canola fields at Spirit Sands, MB, Austin, MB and Route 2, SK; Buffalo herd south of Winnipeg, MB; Night freight train at Indian Head, SK.

Thunderstorm and rain at Pink Mointain, BC; Frogs choir near Victoriaville, QC (American toads, Spring Peepers); Common loon, Lake of the Woods, ON.

Duke River, YK; Canoe on five Fingers Lake, Rouge-Matawin preserve, QC; Agawa bay, Lake Superior, On; Macaza River, QC; Waves, St-Laurence Gulf; Columbia Icefield, at the source of the Athabasca River, AB; Maligne Canyon, Jasper National Park, AB; Magpie River High Falls and American crows, ON; Cliff at Maddalene Islands, Gulf od St. Lawrence, QC; Fog horn on the St Lawrence River at Tadoussac, QC.

Train crossings at Cranbrook, BC and Watrous, SK, and manoeuvres at grain elevator 11, Thunder Bay harbour on Lake Superior, ON.

Dog at the Kitwanga indian village on the Skeena River, BC; Night birds (Soras) Redberry Lake, SK; Camp Fires at the Dawson City, YK, and Manitou Lake, SK, camp grounds.

Evening train, Goldstream Provincial Park, BC; Pacific Ocean, Capilano Beach, Vancouver Island, BC; Fog Horn on the Pacific, Bella Pacifica Beach, BC.