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{{Short description|French composer}}
'''Michel Chion''' (born 1947) is a French [[composer]] of experimental music.
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'''Michel Chion''' (born 1947) is a French film theorist and [[composer]] of experimental music.
 
==Life==
Born in [[Creil]], France, Chion teaches at several institutions in France and currently holds the post of Associate Professor at the [[University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle]] where he is a theoretician and teacher of audio-visual relationships.{{Citation needed|date=September 2017}}
 
After studying literature and music he began to work for the [[ORTF]] (French Radio and Television Organisation) Service de La recherche as assistant to [[Pierre Schaeffer]] in 1970. He was a member of 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]].
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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’audioL'audio-vision. Son et image au cinéma'', originally published in France in 1990,<ref>{{cite book
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| last = Chion
| first = Michel
| title = L’audioL'audio-vision. Son et image au cinéma,
| year = 1990
| publisher = Editions Nathan
| location = Paris
| isbn = 9782091908854978-2-09-190885-4
}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Daniele |first=Romina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5_DvEAAAQBAJ |title=Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Il luogo della musica nell'audiovisione |publisher=RDM |year=2011 |isbn=978-88-904905-9-0 |location=Milan |pages=13–14}}</ref>
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ol0P0uHrn7AC&source=gbs_similarbooks
| last = Daniele
| first = Romina
| title = Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Il luogo della musica nell'audiovisione
| year = 2011
| publisher = RDM
| location = Milan
| isbn = 9788890490590
| pages = 13–14
}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite book
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Dz-1LBWOod0C&dqq=film+sound+theory+and+practice&hl=en&ei=qmmqTuTzOsnOsgamqOn9Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA
| authors author= Elisabeth Weis, |author2=John Belton
| title = Film sound: theory and practice
| year = 1985
| publisher = Columbia University Press
| isbn = 9780231056373978-0-231-05637-3
}}</ref>
 
==Writings==
* 1982. (With [[Norbert Dufourcq]] and Marcelle Benoit). ''La musique électroacoustique''. Paris: [[Presses Universitaires de France]], {{ISBN|2-13-037262-7}}
* 1984. ''La voix au cinéma''. [N.p.]: Cahiers du CinemaCinéma Livres. {{ISBN|2-86642-004-7}}<ref name="Gilbey">{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/08/james-stewart-voice-film-actor|title=Gilbey on Film: what’swhat's in a voice?|last=Gilbey|first=Ryan|date=10 August 2010|work=[[New Statesman]]|accessdateaccess-date=31 August 2010}}</ref>
* 1983. ''Guide des objets sonores: Pierre Schaeffer et la recherche musicale ''. Bibliothèque de recherche musicale. [N.p.]: Buchet Chastel. {{ISBN|2-7020-1439-9}}
* 1985. ''Le son au cinéma''. New, revised and corrected edition. [N.p.]: Cahiers du CinemaCinéma Livres. {{ISBN|2-86642-023-3}}
* 1987. ''Jacques Tati''. Collection "Auteurs". [N.p.]: Cahiers du CinemaCinéma. {{ISBN|2-86642-058-6}}
* 1994. ''Musiques, Médias, Technologie''
* 1994. ''La symphonie à l'époque romantique''. Les chemins de la musique. Paris: Fayard. {{ISBN|2-213-59271-3}}
* 1995. ''La musique au cinéma''. Les chemins de la musique. Paris: Fayard. {{ISBN|2-213-59466-X}}
* 2001. ''David Lynch''. New, enlarged edition. Collection "Auteurs". [N.p.]: Cahiers du CinemaCinéma Livres. {{ISBN|2-86642-319-4}}
* 2002. ''Technique et création au cinéma''
* 2004. ''The Thin Red Line''. London: British Film Institute. {{ISBN|978-1-84457-044-7}}. Monograph about [[Terrence Malick]]'s film ''[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line]]''; translated from the French by Trista Selous. A French version appeared in 2005.
* 2005. ''Stanley Kubrick : L'humain, ni plus ni moins''. Collection "Auteurs". [N.p.]: Cahiers du CinemaCinéma Livres. {{ISBN|2-86642-392-5}}
* 2005. ''Le son''. [N.p.]: Armand Colin. {{ISBN|2-200-34103-2}}
* 2005. ''L´Audio-Vision. Son et image au cinéma''. [N.p.]: Nathan. {{ISBN|2-09-190704-9}} English edition, edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman, as ''Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994) {{ISBN|0-231-07898-6}}
* 2008. ''Andrei Tarkovski''. [N.p.]: Cahiers du CinemaCinéma Livres. {{ISBN|2-86642-503-0}}
* 2009. ''Film: A Sound Art''. New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-231-13777-5}}
* 2016. ''Sound. An Acoulogical Treatise''. Durham and London: Duke University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-822-36039-1}}
 
==Recordings==
* ''La Vie En Prose - Une Symphonie Concrète'' (Broccoli 2011)
* ''Diktat'' (Nuun Records, Musique Concrète, 2010)
* ''Tu'' (Broccoli, BROCOLI 002, 2006)
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* ''On n'arrête pas le regret'' ([[Ina-GRM]], INA_E 5005, 1996)
* ''Gloria'' ([[Cinéma pour l'oreille]], MKCD 015, 1995)
* ''Préludes à la vie'' ([[empreintes DIGITALes]], IMED 9523, 1995)
* ''Requiem'' ([[empreintes DIGITALes]], IMED 9312, 1993)
* ''Credo mambo'' ([[Cinéma pour l'oreille]], MKCD 004, 1992)
* ''La tentation de saint Antoine; La ronde'' ([[Ina-GRM]], INA_C 2002/032002–03, 1991)
* ''About Michel Chion : Lionel Marchetti, '''La musique concrète de Michel Chion''', essay - Metamkine 1998 http://www.metamkine.com/
 
About Michel Chion : Lionel Marchetti, '''La musique concrète de Michel Chion''', essay - Metamkine 1998 http://www.metamkine.com/
 
==List of works==
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* ''La Tentation de saint Antoine'' (1984)
* ''Tu'' (1977, 96)
* ''Une symphonie concrète'' (2006-2006– )
* ''Variations'' (1990)
 
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* [http://acousmata.com/post/132392578/requiem-aeternam Listen to Chion's "Requiem aeternam" at Acousmata music blog]
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[[Category:Living people]]
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[[Category:UniversityAcademic staff of Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris faculty3]]
[[Category:Electroacoustic music composers]]
[[Category:People from Creil]]