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.
As a musician, Bonnet often works under the project name
Kassel Jaeger. He has been collaborating with artists such as Oren Ambarchi,
Giuseppe Ielasi,
Stephan Mathieu,
Stephen O'Malley,
Jim O'Rourke,
Akira Rabelais or
James Rushford. Kassel Jaeger's works are a complex balance between concrète experimentalism, ambient noise, and electroacoustic improvisation. He has released several albums on various labels such as
Editions Mego,
Shelter Press,
Black Truffle, Senufo Editions, Latency… His music has been played in renown venues and festivals all over the world such as Whitney Museum of American Art (US), Super Deluxe (JP), Atonal (DE), Accademia Chigiana (IT) Harvard Museum of Natural History (US), CTM (DE), SFEMF (US), El Nicho (MX), Ultima (NO), Elevate (AT) Madeiradig (PT), Donau Festival (AT)…
See also
Kassel Jaeger.
