Preface
by François Guérin
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The wild evolution of our societies forces all of us to re-examine our
abilities and to develop our faculty to adapt, unlike anything preceding
generations have had to deal with. In this respect, Michel
Chion is fully armed to face this day and age, with as much
versatility (historical chronicler, essayist, biographer, musicologist,
filmmaker, composer) as know-how (writer of stature, experienced speaker,
outstanding musician).
But present times are also the crucible of disillusions, the levelling of
ideas, and the obsolescence of ideologies. By becoming committed to new forms
of communication and by passionately taking a stand for the music of “fixed
sounds,” Michel Chion carries on a tradition that
now belongs to the past, where the debating of ideas expressed something
other than the helplessness of politicians or the distress of the man in the
street.
But it is precisely through this close chemistry, this merging of
standpoints that are generally mutually exclusive that Michel Chion is perhaps presenting us with a path to explore, a
“future with a future.”
François Guérin, Montréal [x-93]
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