Michel Chion
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Michel Chion born in 1947 in Creil, France, is a composer of experimental music. He teaches at several institutions within France and currently holds the post as Associate Professor at the Université de Paris where he is a theoritician and teacher of audio-visual relationships.
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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 - 1976. His compositional pieces 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.
[edit] Bibliography
- La musique électroacoustique (1982)
- La voix au cinéma (1982)
- Guide des objets sonores (1983)
- Le son au cinéma (1985)
- Jacques Tati (1987)
- L´Audio-Vision. Son et image au cinéma (1991)
- Musiques, Médias, Technologie (1994)
- La musique au cinéma (1995)
- Le son (1998)
- Technique et création au cinéma (2002)
[edit] Recordings
- Tu (Brocoli, BROCOLI 002, 2006)
- Les 120 jours with Lionel Marchetti, Jérôme Noetinger (Fringes, FRINGES ARCHIVE_03, 2004)
- Dix-sept minutes (Cinéma pour l'oreille, MKCD 032, 2002)
- L'opéra concret (MCE, MCE 01, 1998)
- 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 2002/03, 1991)
[edit] 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)
