RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Pinheiro, Sara
T1 "Sound has always been immersive." An Interview with Michel Chion
JF ArteActa
YR 2021
VO 4
IS 1
SP 111
OP 122
UL https://arteacta.cz/en/artkey/ara-202101-0004.php
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 Cinéma 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 trouée. La parole au cinema (1988), in which he accesses the development of sound-film through dialogues.