Michel Chion
Biographic Data
| ID | 411611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michel Chion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michel |
| FAMILY NAME | Chion |
| SIGNATURE | CHION M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sound Film—Worthy of the Name
Films projected in theaters have had soundtracks for sixty years now, and for sixty years this fact has influenced the cinema&s;s internal development. But for the past sixty years as well people have continued to wonder whether the cinema did right in becoming “the talkies.” One form of this tenacious prejudice is the widespread opinion that in all this time no valuable contributions (or almost none) have been made by sound. The Sleeping Beauty …
"Let's Have Done with the Notion of "Noise
These two essays together expose, examine, and critique the workings of "causalism," the implicit positive valuation that attaches to sonic sources with respect to musical production and audition. According to some, timbre, along with pitch, intensity, and duration, would name the fourth fundamental aspect of sounds deemed musical. But while attempts have been made to find in timbre an objectively quantifiable and measurable aspect of sound-and o…
Dissolution of the Notion of Timbre
These two essays together expose, examine, and critique the workings of "causalism," the implicit positive valuation that attaches to sonic sources with respect to musical production and audition. According to some, timbre, along with pitch, intensity, and duration, would name the fourth fundamental aspect of sounds deemed musical. But while attempts have been made to find in timbre an objectively quantifiable and measurable aspect of sound-and o…
Le « matériau » en question
The state ofMusique Concrète
Among the nations of the world, France is the one where studios for electroacoustic research and production are most numerous, and among the most active: it may be in Paris (GRM), in Bourges (GMEB), in Marseille (GMEM), Albi (GMEA), Lyon (GMYL, GRAME, CANOPE), Grenoble, Toulouse, Auch, Chalons-sur-Saône (Christine Groult), Lille, etc....etc.... But what goes on there? All manner of things which often have no direct connection with what was former…
Quiet Revolution… And Rigid Stagnation
Take a scene I noted in a recent film, a good film, rescreened on television last March (1986). It was Invasion of the Body Snatchers-not Don Siegel's 1956 original but Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake, with Donald Sutherland. The scene was the one where Donald Sutherland, at the height of the danger, is overcome by fatigue and falls asleep on a bench in the open air, which allows one of the giant pods from outer space that threaten the earth to begi…
The state ofMusique Concrète
Among the nations of the world, France is the one where studios for electroacoustic research and production are most numerous, and among the most active: it may be in Paris (GRM), in Bourges (GMEB), in Marseille (GMEM), Albi (GMEA), Lyon (GMYL, GRAME, CANOPE), Grenoble, Toulouse, Auch, Chalons-sur-Saône (Christine Groult), Lille, etc....etc.... But what goes on there? All manner of things which often have no direct connection with what was former…
Quiet Revolution… And Rigid Stagnation
Take a scene I noted in a recent film, a good film, rescreened on television last March (1986). It was Invasion of the Body Snatchers-not Don Siegel's 1956 original but Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake, with Donald Sutherland. The scene was the one where Donald Sutherland, at the height of the danger, is overcome by fatigue and falls asleep on a bench in the open air, which allows one of the giant pods from outer space that threaten the earth to begi…
The state ofMusique Concrète
Among the nations of the world, France is the one where studios for electroacoustic research and production are most numerous, and among the most active: it may be in Paris (GRM), in Bourges (GMEB), in Marseille (GMEM), Albi (GMEA), Lyon (GMYL, GRAME, CANOPE), Grenoble, Toulouse, Auch, Chalons-sur-Saône (Christine Groult), Lille, etc....etc.... But what goes on there? All manner of things which often have no direct connection with what was former…
Le « matériau » en question
"Let's Have Done with the Notion of "Noise
These two essays together expose, examine, and critique the workings of "causalism," the implicit positive valuation that attaches to sonic sources with respect to musical production and audition. According to some, timbre, along with pitch, intensity, and duration, would name the fourth fundamental aspect of sounds deemed musical. But while attempts have been made to find in timbre an objectively quantifiable and measurable aspect of sound-and o…
Dissolution of the Notion of Timbre
These two essays together expose, examine, and critique the workings of "causalism," the implicit positive valuation that attaches to sonic sources with respect to musical production and audition. According to some, timbre, along with pitch, intensity, and duration, would name the fourth fundamental aspect of sounds deemed musical. But while attempts have been made to find in timbre an objectively quantifiable and measurable aspect of sound-and o…
Sound Film—Worthy of the Name
Films projected in theaters have had soundtracks for sixty years now, and for sixty years this fact has influenced the cinema&s;s internal development. But for the past sixty years as well people have continued to wonder whether the cinema did right in becoming “the talkies.” One form of this tenacious prejudice is the widespread opinion that in all this time no valuable contributions (or almost none) have been made by sound. The Sleeping Beauty …
Art (4 works) · Music Technology and Sound Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Musical (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Timbre (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)