audio-vision

  • Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, New Book by Michel Chion

    Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, New Book by Michel Chion

    Duke University Press has announced the arrival of Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, the first English translation of Michel Chion‘s Le Son book, originally published in French in 1998 and revised in 2010, where the author explores a wide variety of…

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    The Voice in Cinema Michel Chion How can a voice whose source is never seen—such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho—have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does “synchronized…

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    Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen Michel Chion In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and…