Michel Chion

Chion worked across composer, university teacher, writer, film theorist and film critic and 1 further recorded occupations. This article rests on 5 catalogued compositions, 22 published texts, 13 issued recordings, 1 digitised documents and 45 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Born in Creil, France, Chion teaches at several institutions in France and currently holds the post of Associate Professor at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle where he is a theoretician and teacher of audio-visual relationships. 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 and 1976. His compositions 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. In particular, the book titled L'audio-vision. Son et image au cinéma, originally published in France in 1990, has been considered by all critics as the definitive book on the relations between sound and image, which are described as two different languages within the multimedia art form, discussing the argument from both technical-linguistic and aesthetic points of view, where before it was discussed principally in terms of narrative implications.

• 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 Danse de l'épervier (Music for a Choreography by Hideyuki Yano, 1984) • 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)

Michel Chion is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation film theorist. Recorded as composer, university teacher, writer, film theorist and film critic.