PT Journal
AU Pinheiro, S
TI "Sound has always been immersive." An Interview with Michel Chion
SO ArteActa
PY 2021
BP 111
EP 122
VL 4
IS 1
DE film; sound-art; zvuk
AB Michel Chion (1947) is a French film critic and composer. His career began as an assistant to Pierre Schaeffer in 1970, at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), which also led him to collaborate with the French journal Les Cahiers du Cinema between 1982-87. This practice, together with his interest in perception and the arrival of the videotape, triggered a book trilogy on sound in film: La voix au cinema (1984; published in English as The Voice in Cinema in 1999) in which he analyses the hierarchy of voice in the soundtrack ("vococentrism"); Le son au cinema (1985, in English as Film, a Sound Art in 2003), where he continues to access human language through film-sound; and La toile trouee. La parole au cinema (1988), in which he accesses the development of sound-film through dialogues.
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