This workshop is a unique opportunity to explore the ideas, history and forward trajectories of musique concrete, led by composer, writer, theoretician and Director of INA GRM, Francois J. Bonnet (aka Kassel Jaeger ).

Drawing on the heritage of musique concrete and acousmatic music, this course aims to revise the conceptual foundations that traditionally underpin musical thinking and to take a more experiential approach to composition. Drawing on an original body of theory as well as tangible examples, the aim of the session is to open up new paths of creation, enabling each participant to articulate their relationship to musical creation more clearly, to redefine the issues at stake and to find new creative routes to explore.

The first two classes will take the form of lectures, while the next two will be more devoted to discussion and the exploration of each person's particular challenges. Finally, the last session will be a synthesis dedicated to formalising the stakes specific to each of the participants.

Francois J. Bonnet, aka Kassel Jaeger, is a Franco-Swiss composer and electroacoustic musician based in Paris. In addition to being the Director of INA GRM (Institut national de l'audiovisuel / Groupe de Recherches Musicales - the latter being one of the birthplaces of electroacoustic experimentation in the late 1950's), Francois is also a writer and theoretician: his books "The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago", "The Infra-World", and "After Death" are published in English by Urbanomic. He is also the author of the manifesto "The Music to Come", published by Shelter Press in 2020, and the co-editor of the "SPECTRES" series of publications, a joint project of INA GRM and Shelter Press. As a musician, Bonnet often works under the project name Kassel Jaeger. He has collaborated with artists such as Oren Ambarchi, Giuseppe Ielasi, Stephan Mathieu, Stephen O'Malley, Jim O'Rourke, Akira Rabelais, James Rushford or Gisèle Vienne. Kassel Jaeger's works are a complex balance between concrete experimentalism, ambient noise, and electroacoustic improvisation. He has released several albums on various labels such as Shelter Press, Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Senufo Editions, etc. While his own music has been played in renowned venues and festivals all over the world, Francois has been working closely with groundbreaking composer Eliane Radigue and has been regularly performing her electronic music in concert.



WHERE AND WHEN?

This is an online course, but it involves realtime sessions and contact time with your tutor - it's not a "download these videos and watch them at your leisure" type of thing - it's a real workshop with live lectures, individual tuition, assignments and feedback sessions. We've tried to make this remote session as close as possible to the experience of an onsite workshop at CAMP. The course starts on 21/05/2024 and ends on 04/06/2024. The schedule for sessions is as follows (all times are CET):

• Session 1 - Lecture: 21/05/2024, 18:00 - 20:00 CET
• Session 2 - Lecture: 22/05/2024, 18:00 - 20:00 CET
• Session 3 - Group Session: 28/05/2024, 18:00 - 20:00 CET
• Session 4 - Group Session: 29/05/2024, 18:00 - 20:00 CET
• Session 5 - Group Session: 04/06/2024, 18:00 - 20:00 CET

HOW TO BOOK

To book your place on the course, click the button in the green section above. You won't pay anything right now - we'll send you a booking confirmation email with everything you need to know next. Your place is reserved without payment for three days.

You'll find a payment link in the booking confirmation email - follow the link to make a payment (either in full, or the first payment of a 2 month payment plan). In the latter case, a monthly payment plan will be put in place, so your card will be charged 1/2 of the fee today, and 1/2 each month (on the same day) for an additional 1 months. All card payments are handled by Stripe, and are extremely secure. We don't store any card data ourselves - all of this is handled securely off-site by Stripe. If you have a discount or grant code, you will be able to add it when you follow the payment link in your confirmation email.

Once you've made a payment, you'll receive another email containing your receipt, links to resources, contact information and access to our group chat to discuss the workshop with other participants.