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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