Michel Chion is a french composer, filmmaker, critic, born in 1947 in Creil, France.
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 also works as a theoretician in a new area: the systematic study of audio-visual relationships, which he teaches at several centres (notably at Université de Paris III where he is an Associate Professor), and film schools (ESEC, Paris; DAVI, Lausanne) which has developed in a series of five books.
Besides the twenty written publications translated into a dozen languages, he has also written on Pierre Henry, François Bayle, Charlie Chaplin, Jacques Tati, David Lynch, diverse subjects on music and film; he has published in French and international journals, and has contributed to numerous dictionaries and encyclopedias.
He has also commenced work in film direction and production with the short film Éponine (Prix Jean-Vigo, prizes in Clermont-Ferrand, and in Montréal). In 1995, he has begun an audio-visual piece entitled Messe de terre at the CICV Pierre Schaeffer in Montbéliard (France).
After having dedicated his Guide des objets sonores to the ideas of Schaeffer, he continued with Le promeneur écoutant, essais d’acoulogie, (1993), and finally with Musique, médias, technologies, a theory of sound based on language.
In 1991 he published, with the support of Jérôme Noetinger, L’art des sons fixés in which he proposes, in order to properly designate this music, the return to the term ‘musique concrète’ in its initial non-causal sense. His redefinition insists upon the effects particular to the fixation of sound, a term which he proposes in place of recording.
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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 also works as a theoretician in a new area: the systematic study of audio-visual relationships, which he teaches at several centres (notably at Université de Paris III where he is an Associate Professor), and film schools (ESEC, Paris; DAVI, Lausanne) which has developed in a series of five books.
Besides the twenty written publications translated into a dozen languages, he has also written on Pierre Henry, François Bayle, Charlie Chaplin, Jacques Tati, David Lynch, diverse subjects on music and film; he has published in French and international journals, and has contributed to numerous dictionaries and encyclopedias.
He has also commenced work in film direction and production with the short film Éponine (Prix Jean-Vigo, prizes in Clermont-Ferrand, and in Montréal). In 1995, he has begun an audio-visual piece entitled Messe de terre at the CICV Pierre Schaeffer in Montbéliard (France).
After having dedicated his Guide des objets sonores to the ideas of Schaeffer, he continued with Le promeneur écoutant, essais d’acoulogie, (1993), and finally with Musique, médias, technologies, a theory of sound based on language.
In 1991 he published, with the support of Jérôme Noetinger, L’art des sons fixés in which he proposes, in order to properly designate this music, the return to the term ‘musique concrète’ in its initial non-causal sense. His redefinition insists upon the effects particular to the fixation of sound, a term which he proposes in place of recording.
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Discography:
- Requiem (1978, INA-GRM, AM 689.05)
- La Ronde (1983, INA-GRM, 9114 CH)
- La Tentation De Saint Antoine / La Ronde (1991, INA-GRM, INA_C 2002/03)
- Credo mambo (1992, Metamkine-Cinéma pour l'oreille, MKCD 004)
- Requiem (1993, Empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9312)
- Préludes A La Vie (1995, Empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9523)
- Gloria (1995, Metamkine-Cinéma pour l'oreille, MKCD 015)
- On N'arrête Pas Le Regret (1996, INA-GRM, INA_E 5005)
- L'Opéra Concret: Musiques Concrètes 1971-1997 (1998, INA-GRM, MCE 01)
- Dix-Sept Minutes (2002, Metamkine-Cinéma pour l'oreille, MKCD 032)
- Les 120 Jours (2004, Fringes, Fringes Archive 03) (with Lionel Marchetti and Jérôme Noetinger)
- Tu (2006, Brocoli, Brocoli 002)
- Requiem (2007, Sub Rosa, SRV251)
- Diktat (2010, Nuun Records / Musique Concrète, nuun 001)
- La Vie En Prose - Une Symphonie Concrète (2011, Brocoli, Brocoli 009)
- La Tentation De Saint Antoine (2011, Nuun Records)
- Musiques Concrètes 1970-71 (2014, Brocoli, Brocoli 016)
- Musiques Concrètes 1988-91 (2016, Brocoli, Brocoli 019)
Tracks appear on:
- VV.AA. - Musique Concrète: Elektroakustische Musik (1974, Klett Verlag, 92422) track: Requiem
- VV.AA. - Concert Imaginaire GRM (1985, INA-GRM) track: La Ronde... L'été... Jardin Jadis
- VV.AA. - Klangwelten (1997, WERGO, WER 30252) track: Requiem: Sanctus
- VV.AA. - eXcitations (2000, Empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0050) track: Requiem: Dies Iræ
- VV.AA. - Licences n° 1 (2000, Licences, L1) track: Sonate En Trois Mouvements
- VV.AA. - 50 Ans De Musique Electroacoustique Au Groupe De Recherches (2001, Fondazione Teatro Massimo, FTM 002) tracks: La Ronde, Requiem
- VV.AA. - Writing Aloud: The Sonics Of Language (2001, Errant Bodies Press / Ground Fault Recordings, ISBN 0-9655570-3-0 / --) track: Gloria
- VV.AA. - L'Espace Du Son 2002 (2002, Musiques & Recherches, --) track: Credo Mambo
- VV.AA. - An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Third A-Chronology 1952-2004 (2004, Sub Rosa, SR220) track: Requiem: Dies Iræ
- One Minute For The Stars (2011, SEM Label, SEM 011) track: omftStars
- Michèle Bokanowski - Tabou (1992, Metamkine-Cinéma pour l'oreille, MKCD 003) (engineering)
- Ghédalia Tazartès - Diasporas/Tazartès (2004, Alga Marghen, T 7TES.053) (compositor of ‘’Quasimodo Tango’’)
- Lionel Marchetti - Red Dust (2005, Crouton, crou029) (voice on “Visiones Nocturnae” and “Décompte”)
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Bibliography:
Bibliography:
- Les Musiques Électroacoustiques (1976, Ina/Edisud, Aix-En-Provence) (co-authored by Guy Reibel)
- Pierre Henry (1980, Fayard/Sacem, Paris)
- La Musique Électroacoustique (1982, P.U.F. "Que Sais-Je", Paris)
- La Voix Au Cinéma (1982, Editions De L'etoile/Cahiers Du Cinéma, "Essais", Paris)
- Guide Des Objets Sonores (1983, Ina/Buchet-Chastel, "Bibliothèque De Recherche Musicale", Paris)
- Le Son Au Cinéma (1985, Editions De L'etoile/Cahiers Du Cinéma, "Essais", Paris)
- Écrire Un Scénario (1986, Cahiers Du Cinéma/Ina, Paris)
- Jacques Tati (1987, Cahiers Du Cinéma, "Auteurs", Paris)
- La Toile Trouée, Ou La Parole Au Cinema (1988, Cahiers Du Cinéma, Essais", Paris)
- Les Lumières De La Ville, De Charlie Chaplin (1989, Fernand Nathan, "Synopsis", Paris)
- Le Cinema Et Ses Métiers (1990, Bordas, Paris)
- L'audio-Vision (Son Et Image Au Cinema) (1991, Nathan-Université, "Cinéma Et Image", Paris)
- L'art Des Sons Fixés, Ou La Musique Concrètement (1991, Metamkine/Nota Bene/Sono-Concept)
- David Lynch (1992/1998/2002, Cahiers Du Cinéma, "Auteurs", Paris)
- Le Promeneur Écoutant (Essais D'acoulogie) (1993, Plume/Sacem, Paris)
- Le Poème Symphonique Et La Musique À Programme (1993, Fayard, "Les Chemins De La Musique", Paris)
- La Symphonie À L'epoque Romantique, De Beethoven À Mahler (1994, Fayard, "Les Chemins De La Musique", Paris)
- Musiques, Médias, Technologie (1994, Flammarion, "Dominos", Paris)
- La Musique Au Cinéma (1995, Fayard, "Les Chemins De La Musique", Paris)
- Le Son (1998, Nathan-Université, "Cinéma Et Image", Paris)
- Un'odissea Del Cinema: Il 2001 Di Kubrick (2000, Lindau, “Saggi”, Turin)
- Kubrick's Cinema Odyssey (2001, Bfi Publishing, London) (trans. by Claudia Gorbman)
- Eyes Wide Shut (2002, Bfi Publishing, "Modern Classics", London) (trans. by Trista Selous) Technique Et Création Au Cinéma (2002, Éditions De L'esec, Paris)
- La Comédie Musicale (2003, Cahiers Du Cinéma, "Les Petits Cahiers, Scérén-Cndp", Paris)
- Un Art Sonore, Le Cinéma (2003, Cahiers Du Cinéma, "Essais", Paris)
- The Thin Red Line (2004, Bfi Publishing, "Modern Classics", London) (trans. by Trista Selous)
- Stanley Kubrick, L'humain, Ni Plus Ni Moins (2005, Cahiers Du Cinéma, "Auteurs", Paris)
- La Ligne Rouge (2005, Ed. De La Transparence, Paris) (french edition of "The Thin Red Line”)
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