The Music to Come

The Music to Come

Francois J. Bonnet • François J. Bonnet

ISBN-10: 2365820409 · ISBN-13: 978‑2365820400 · 2020 · 1st edition

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Shelter Press, 2020. Softcover, 56pp., 4.3 x 6.2 inches New This is not a study. It is a manifesto for a peculiar conviction: that music remains to be discovered, that it is still hidden. That, nonetheless, it does sometimes appear, but most often incompletely and unevenly. And that what we have hitherto referred to as “music” is in fact only a preliminary, a prodrome. That all musics produced up until now have been nothing but simulacra, rituals to call music forth. This may sound crazy, and indeed unwelcome. But the sole concern of the following text will be to make this statement legible, understandable, and perhaps even to some extent acceptable. Its hope is that, setting out from a few intuitions, the possibility of a music to come can be formulated. That this obscure becoming will emerge, one trait at a time; that the shape of this music to come will reveal itself, gradually, by way of a cluster of assumptions, the reading of a multiple history, and the examination of damaging paradigms that have taken music far from itself. That the subjectivity of a writing, with all of its beliefs, its errors, its biases, its injustices and its shaky certainties, may yet manage to cast a singular and inspiring light upon the idea of music—this, ultimately, is the ambition of the lines to come. François J. Bonnet is a Franco-Swiss composer and electroacoustic musician based in Paris. In addition to being director of INA GRM, editor of Spectres , and of the Portraits GRM and Recollection GRM series, he is also a writer and theoretician.

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