The Order of Sounds
A Sonorous Archipelago
$44.14
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2016
Summary
This study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a “sonorous archipelago”-a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse.Profoundly intimate yet immediately giving onto distant spaces, both an “organ of fear” and an echo chamber of anticipated pleasures, an uncontrollable flow subject to unconscious selection and augmentation, the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing has meant that sound has…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780993045875 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0993045871 |
| Author: | François J. Bonnet, Peter Szendy, Robin Mackay |
| Publisher: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Imprint: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
| Series: | Urbanomic / Mono |
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Critics Review
Operating at high theoretical altitude, in The Order of Sounds , Fran
Operating at high theoretical altitude, in The Order of Sounds, François Bonnet sets himself a Herculean task: nothing less than the retheorisation of sound as such.
—Drew Daniels, THE WIRETo the theoretical propensities imprinted on the domain of sound by a rational order, François J. Bonnet opposes a veritable thinking of disorder, a “sonorous archipelago” rather than a “theory of sound.” This unprecedented and salutary enterprise outlines a new path for a future “acoulogy.”
—Pierre-Yves Macé, FiligraneBonnet’s writing, dense, full of unexpected turns and remarks, is intelligent and meticulous.
—Daniel Contarelli, CRITIQUE D’ARTAbout The Author
François J. Bonnet
Fran ois J. Bonnet is a composer, visual artist, recording artist (as Kassel Jaeger), Director of Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA-GRM) in Paris, and part-time Lecturer at the Universite de Paris 1.Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.
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