Michel Chion

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Michel Chion (born January 16, 1947 in Creil in the Oise department ) is a French author and composer of electronic music and musique concrète .

life and work

After studying literature and music, Michel Chion began working for the French broadcaster Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française in 1970 . He was assistant to Pierre Schaeffer at the Paris Conservatory and from 1971 to 1976 a member of the Groupe de recherches musicales . He got to know the video artist Robert Cahen , with whom he has enjoyed years of friendship and musical collaboration. Chion is a professor at the University of Paris III .

In addition to his compositions, Michel Chion has written numerous texts on sound, music and language in film, including Pierre Henry , François Bayle , Charlie Chaplin , Jacques Tati , David Lynch , Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkowski . He wrote 16 books and published in Cahiers du cinéma .

literature

In German translation

  • Michel Chion: Screenwriting Techniques . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89581-064-0 (French: Ecrire Un Scenario .).
  • Michel Chion: The art of fixed sounds - or the Musique Concrètement . tape 7 . Merve-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88396-261-0 (French: L'Art des sons fixés ou La musique concrètement . Translated by Ronald Voullié).
  • Michel Chion: audio vision . Ed .: Prof. JU Lensing . Schiele and Schön, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-7949-0827-1 (French: L´Audio-Vision. Son et image au cinéma . Translated by Alexandra Fuchs).

In the original language or in English

  • 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 . [Np]: Cahiers du Cinema Livres. ISBN 2-86642-004-7
  • 1983. Guide des objets sonores: Pierre Schaeffer et la recherche musicale . Bibliothèque de recherche musicale. [Np]: Book Chastel. ISBN 2-7020-1439-9
  • 1985. Le son au cinéma . New, revised and corrected edition. [Np]: Cahiers du Cinema Livres. ISBN 2-86642-023-3
  • 1987. Jacques Tati . Collection "Auteurs". [Np]: Cahiers du Cinema. ISBN 2-86642-058-6
  • 1994. Musiques, Médias, Technology
  • 1994. La symphonie à l'époque romantique . The chemins de la musique. Paris: Fayard. ISBN 2-213-59271-3
  • 1995. La musique au cinéma . The chemins de la musique. Paris: Fayard. ISBN 2-213-59466-X
  • 2001. David Lynch . New, enlarged edition. Collection "Auteurs". [Np]: Cahiers du Cinema Livres. ISBN 2-86642-319-4
  • 2002. Technique et creation 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 ; translated from the French by Trista Selous. A French version appeared in 2005.
  • 2005. Stanley Kubrick: L'humain, ni plus ni moins . Collection "Auteurs". [Np]: Cahiers du Cinema Livres. ISBN 2-86642-392-5
  • 2005. Le son . [Np]: Armand Colin. ISBN 2-200-34103-2
  • 2005. L´Audio-Vision. Son et image au cinéma . [Np]: 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 . [Np]: Cahiers du Cinema Livres. ISBN 2-86642-503-0
  • 2009. Film: A Sound Art . New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13777-5
  • 2016. Sound. To Acoulogical Treatise . Durham and London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-6039-1

Recordings

Work

  • 24 preludes à la vie (1989–1991)
  • Crayonnés ferroviaires (1992)
  • Credo Mambo (1992)
  • Dix-sept minutes (2000)
  • L'été (1982)
  • Gloria (1994)
  • Hymn 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 (1979–1985)
  • On n'arrête pas le regret (1975)
  • Le prisonnier du son (1972–1991)
  • Requiem (1973)
  • La Ronde (1982)
  • La roue (1972–1985)
  • Sambas pour un jour de pluie (1985)
  • Sonata (1990)
  • Suite volatile (1984)
  • La Tentation de saint Antoine (1984)
  • Tu (1977, 96)
  • Une symphonie concrète (2006-)
  • Variations (1990)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 330; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
  2. ↑ Master class Michel Chion: Trans-Sensory Rhythm in Cinema - Research school for Media Studies (RMeS). In: rmes.nl. Research school for Media Studies (RMeS), accessed March 19, 2016 (American English).
  3. ↑ Michel Chion. In: paristransatlantic.com. Retrieved March 19, 2016 .
  4. ^ Gilbey on Film: what's in a voice? In: newstatesman.com. Retrieved March 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Chion, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author and composer of electronic music and musique concrète
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Creil , Oise department