Michel Chion: The Voice in Cinema, or the Acousmêtre and Me

Born in 1947, Michel Chion is a composer, filmmaker, historian and writer – and arguably the world’s foremost thinker on sound in cinema. For this event, Michel Chion presented a lecture performance tracing a history of the ‘acousmêtre’ – Chion’s term for the mysterious off-screen voice in cinema, through his own oeuvre and the works of Bresson, Lang, Syberberg, Spike Jonze and more. https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/michel-chion Histories and Theories of Sound 25 August, 2017 Australian Cinémathéque, QAGOMA Presented by Liquid Architecture, Australian Cinémathèque, QAGOMA and INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.