Chion Michel. Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen

Edited and translated by Claudia Gorbman with a foreword by Walter Murch. — Columbia University Press, 1994. — 239 p. — ISBN: 0-231-07898-6.Michel Chion is a composer of musique concrète, a filmmaker, a music critic, an associate professor at the Université de Paris, and a prolific writer on film, sound, and music.
In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen 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 image in audiovisual perception. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception. Expanding on arguments made in his influential books The Voice in Cinema and Sound in Cinema, Chion provides lapidary insight into the functions and aesthetics of sound in film and television. He considers the effects of such evolving technologies as widescreen, multitrack, and Dolby; the influences of sound on the perception of space and time; and the impact of such contemporary forms of audio-vision as music videos, video art, and commercial television. Chion concludes with an original and useful model for the audiovisual analysis of film.The audiovisual contract:
Projection of the sound
The three listening modes
Lines and points: horizontal and vertical perspectives on audiovisual relation
The audiovisial scene
The real and the rendered
Phantom audio-vision
Beyond sounds and images:
Sound film - Worthy of the name
Television, video-art, music video
Toward an audiologovisual poetics
Introduction to audiovisual analysis