SD16 - w/ François J. Bonnet - We Can Go to Work but We Cannot Attend the Funeral of our Loved Ones

Social Discipline

This week we are joined by François J. Bonnet, recording artist (as Kassel Jaeger) and theoretician, Director of Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA-GRM) in Paris, and producer on National French Radio France Musique. We talk with him about the recent publication of the english translation of his book "After Death" (2020, Urbanomic)in the context of the current pandemic and the general externalisation and disembodiment of death. We do end up divagating about improvisation, the sublime, romanticism and other meta-musical tropes in the direction of François' most recent book "The Music To Come" (2020, Shelter Press). https://www.urbanomic.com/book/after-death/ https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/merch/fran-ois-j-bonnet-the-music-to-come-english-edition