CHION, Michel

French composer Michel Chion specializes in electroacoustic music that is lively, sensual, and cinematic, as well as open to the whole world of music and sounds. His works often incorporate elements from traditional forms— sonatas, requiems, masses, waltzes, mambos—but these are transformed in the context of his sound-based art, which is ultimately associational in structure. Indeed, his primary concern has been associations between sound and image, sound and memory. He has written, for...