The audiovisual relationship is not natural but rather a sort of symbolic pact to which the audio-spectator agrees to forget that sound is coming from loudspeakers and picture from the screen. The audio-spectator considers the elements of sound and image to be participating in one the same entity or world.  

The result of the audio-visual contract is that one perception influences the other and transforms it. So that ... 
 

Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen  is  available at Internet book stores as  Amazon books   Highly recommended
 

• The Voice in Cinema 
• David Lynch
• The Films of Jacques Tati 

• "Chion is a poet in theoretician's clothing" 

- Claudia Gorbman writes about Michel Chion

• Book Review: Michel Chion, Audio-Vision (Escom Newsletters)   

- by Nicola Phillips Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge

• Michel Chion´s Terminology

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