AUDIO-VISION

Audio-Vision

Audio-Vision

Introduction

Michel Chion (Creil, 1947) was a composer of experimental music. He taught at several institutions in France and currently held the position of Associate Professor at the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvell, where he was a theoretical and audiovisual relations professor. Sergei Eisenstein is another popular personality in this area. Sergei Eisenstein was a director, editor and Soviet film theorist. He was the son of a Jewish father and mother was Slavic. He studied architecture and fine arts before joining the militia who participated in the October Revolution.

The paper discusses the works of both the personalities and discusses ideas and arguments lay by them and evaluates if Chion's and Eisentein's ideas and arguments diverge or converge?

Thesis Statement

In what ways do Chion's and Eisentein's ideas and arguments diverge or converge?

Discussion

Michel Chion - Works and Arguments

Michel Chion (Creil, 1947) was a composer of experimental music. He taught at several institutions in France and currently held the position of Associate Professor at the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvell , where he was a theoretical and audiovisual relations professor. After studying literature and music, he began working for the ORTF (French Radio and Television Organization) as an assistant to Pierre Schaeffer in 1970. He was a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) between 1971 and 1976. He has also written several books and essays expounding his theories of the interaction between image and sound in cinema. In particular, the book entitled L'audio-vision was regarded as one of his famous works. His work cinéma et image, originally published in France in 1990, has been considered by critics as the definitive book on the relationship between sound and image where he described two different languages ??in the art form multimedia.

As a composer Michel Chion since 1971 dedicated exclusively to concrete music but within that framework he produced a varied pieces: melodramas (The Prisoner's Son, 1972; Tu, 1977; Diktat, 1979, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, according to Flaubert, 1984; Isle sonorant, 1998), collections of short pieces and suites (cannot stop the regret, 1975, La Ronde, 1982; Twenty-four Preludes to life, 1990) , formal and technical research (Ten studies of musique concrete, 1988, Variations, 1989; rail Sketches, 1992, seventeen minutes, 2000), sacred music (Requiem, 1973, Credo Mambo, 1992, Gloria, 1994, Missa Obscura, 2000).

In Audio-Vision, the idea is conceptualized on the basis of sound on Screen. As a director, Michel Chion has directed short films for cinema (The Big Clean Up, 1975; Eponine, 1984) and documentary videos, until his most important work in this area, The Mass of earth, 1996, on which two and a half-hour combines the image-video concrete music, and was awarded the Grand Prize of the City of Locarno. Eponine has also received several awards including the Grand Prix Festival of Clermont-Ferrand, the Montreal Grand Prix and the Prix Jean-Vigo 1985. As a writer, researcher and essayist, he has published twenty-five books, including The Music in film, which won the Best Film Book Award 1995 by the Union of French ...