Description: 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.
Review Quotes: 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 WIRE--
To 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, Filigrane--Bonnet's writing, dense, full of unexpected turns and remarks, is intelligent and meticulous.
--Daniel Contarelli, CRITIQUE D'ART--