Michel Chion

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Michel Chion (born 1947) is a French film theorist and composer of experimental music.

Life

Born in

University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle where he is a theoretician and teacher of audio-visual relationships.[citation needed
]

After studying literature and music he began to work for the

Groupe de Recherches Musicales
(GRM) between 1971 and 1976.

His compositions elaborate on Schaeffarian theories and methodologies which Schaeffer referred to as musique concrète.

He has also written a number of books as well as essays expounding his theories of the interaction between sound and image within the medium of film.

In particular, the book titled L'audio-vision. Son et image au cinéma, originally published in France in 1990,[1] [2] has been considered by all critics as the definitive book on the relations between sound and image, which are described as two different languages within the multimedia art form, discussing the argument from both technical-linguistic and aesthetic points of view, where before it was discussed principally in terms of narrative implications.[3] [4]

Writings

Recordings

List of works

  • 24 préludes à la vie (1989–91)
  • Crayonnés ferroviaires (1992)
  • Credo Mambo (1992)
  • Dix-sept minutes (2000)
  • L'été (1982)
  • Gloria (1994)
  • Hymne de l'enfant à son réveil (1997)
  • L'isle sonante (1998, 2005)
  • La machine à passer le temps (1972)
  • La Messe de terre (1996, 2003)
  • Nuit noire (1979–85)
  • On n'arrête pas le regret (1975)
  • Le prisonnier du son (1972–91)
  • Requiem (1973)
  • La Ronde (1982)
  • La roue (1972–85)
  • Sambas pour un jour de pluie (1985)
  • Sonate (1990)
  • Suite volatile (1984)
  • La Tentation de saint Antoine (1984)
  • Tu (1977, 96)
  • Une symphonie concrète (2006– )
  • Variations (1990)

References

Further reading

  • Marchetti, Lionel, and Christian Zanési. 1998. La Musique concrète de Michel Chion: Essai. [France]: Metamkine Rives.

External links