Francois J. Bonnet delves into the philosophies of his new book, ‘The Order of Sounds’.

For the fourth edition of our Musical Material series, we present ‘The Order of Sounds’ with François J. Bonnet. Following Saturday’sRewire 2017 performance as his musical alter ego Kassel Jaeger, Swiss composer, visual artist and author François J. Bonnet sits down with Gabriel Paiuk to discussthe philosophies of sound and listening laid out in his new book, ‘The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago’. Making a compelling case for the irreducible heterogeneity of ‘sound’, he navigates between the physical models constructed by psychophysics and refined through recording technologies, and the synthetic production of what is heard. In this talk, Francois J. Bonnetexplains the motivation behind hisexamination of modes of listening and mapping of plural sonic ontologies, as well as expanding on the ‘schizological’ nature of sound.

Musical Material is a series of inspiring encounters on Sunday afternoons hosted by Rewire and West Den Haag, during which specialists in the fields of music, art and reflection test and discuss their work in an intimate setting.