This essay contains the audio-visual theories of Michel Chion. From Pierre Schaeffer's research to music for cinema, the author presents his ideas on sound: acoustics, psychoacoustics, electroacoustic music, music and literature, music and cinema, and recording techniques. Michel Chion continues the research work of Pierre Schaeffer by extending his sound research to a new activity: acoulogie. The sound becomes an object to be built through culture, listening, analysis and classification.
Table of contents:
- Things heard from a bed
- The “inréifiable”
- Voices, words and sounds
- Of ergo-hearing
- The causal chord
- Capacities of sound
- In the eternity of a past made up of listening
- A divided world
- The cut
- Audio-visual coupling
- Describing and classifying sounds
- Building a sound