Synchresis

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The Forced Marriage between Visual and Music.

Synchresis (forced marriage) is a term invented by film theorist Michel Chion. It suggests that any audio will naturally pair with any visual.


When Picture and Sound Merge by Sven E Carlsson

  • The function of sound in a movie is to affirm the moving pictures, thereby animating them. 
  • Film is movement and movements are felt more natural if combined with sound. 
  • Every sound rises from an original source. 
  • When sight has defined the source of a sound, this information is not worked on in the brain; 
  • French theorist Michel Chion (1990/1994). The word is a conceptual fusion of ‘synchronization’ and ‘synthesis’.
  • Chion’s basic theory is that the movie and its viewer sign an audiovisual contract implying that the audience “agrees” to ignore perceptual inequalities between film and reality.
5 Types of Synchresis
  1. Perceptual synchresis
  2. Emotional synchresis
  3. Music synchresis
  4. Humour synchresis
  5. Horror synchresis





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