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Michel Chion was born in 1947 in Creil (France). After literary and musical studies, he began in 1970 to work for the ORTF (French Radio and Television Organization) Service de la recherche, where he was assistant to Pierre Schaeffer at the Paris’ Conservatoire national de musique, producer of broadcasts for the GRAM, and publications director for the Ina-GRM, of which he was a member from 1971 to 1976. It was there that he met Robert Cahen, composer and video artist, and with whom he entered into a long-lasting friendship and collaboration. Parallel to these activities, he composed musique concrète works in the studios of the GRAM including Requiem (Grand prix du disque 1978) and several concrète melodramas, a dramatic form which he inaugurated in 1972 with Le prisonnier du son (The Prisoner of Sound) and continued with Tu, 1977-85, La tentation de saint Antoine, 1984, and Nuit noire, 1985. Also worthy of mention are La Roue, cycle du quotidien, 1972-85, 24 préludes à la vie (24 Preludes to Life), Variations, and Sonate, 1989-91, Crayonnés ferroviaires, 1992, Credo mambo, 1992 — realized at Musiques & Recherches (Ohain, Belgium) —, Gloria, 1994… all works for which he developed original compositional techniques. 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). Most recently 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, (Plume, éditeur, 1993), and finally with Musique, médias, technologies (Flammarion), 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.
2023
Motus
CD
2016
Vand'Oeuvre
2xCD, Album
2016
Brocoli
CD, Album
2014
Brocoli
CD, Album
2014
Motus
DVD-V, PAL
2011
Brocoli
2xCD
2011
Nuun Records
2xCD, RE
2010
Nuun Records
2xCD, RM
2006
Brocoli
CD
2004
Fringes Recordings
2xCD
2002
Metamkine
CD, Mini
1998
MCE, INA-GRM
CD, Album, Comp
1996
INA-GRM, Musidisc
CD, Album
1995
Empreintes DIGITALes
CD
1995
1992
Metamkine, Metamkine
CD, Mini
1991
INA-GRM, INA-GRM
2xCD
1983
1978
2024
Recollection GRM
LP, Album
2021
Decca, Son/Ré
13xCD, Comp, RM + Box
2017
2016
Decca, Decca
CD
2016
Naïve
5xCD
2015
2014
2012
Decca
10xCD, RM + Box, Comp
2011
Monotype Records
2xCD, Comp
2011
2010
Web Of Mimicry
CD, Comp
2009
trAce Label
CD, Comp
2008
Optical Sound
2xCD, Album, Ltd
2007
Web Of Mimicry
7", Ltd
2006
Crouton
3xCD, Mini, Ltd, Num
2004
Alga Marghen
CD, Comp
1999
Motus
2xCD, Album
1998
ReR Megacorp
CD, Album
1998
1997
Motus
CD, Album
1997
1995
INA-GRM, Musidisc
2xCD, Album
1994
INA-GRM, Musidisc
CD
1994
1992
Metamkine, Metamkine
CD, Mini
1991
Mantra, Mantra
3xCD, Comp
1990
1988
1982
INA-GRM
LP
1981
1979
1978
1974
Calliope
3xLP, Comp + Box
2017
Thrènes
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2013
Eclectic Collective
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2012
Bruits De Fond
File, MP3, Mixed
2011
Alias Frequencies
File, MP3, Comp, 224
2011
2004
2002
Musiques & Recherches
CDr, Promo, Smplr
2001
Fondazione Teatro Massimo, Ina-Grm
2xCD, Comp
2001
Errant Bodies Press, Ground Fault Recordings
CD, Album, Comp
2000
Empreintes DIGITALes
CD, Comp
2000
Licences
CD, Comp, Ltd
1997
Neue Zeitschrift Für Musik, WERGO
CD, Comp
1984
INA-GRM
CD, Comp
1980
Ernst Klett Stuttgart
2xLP, Comp
1974
Klett Verlag
LP, Comp
1974
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