Tom Johnson: Looking at Chords

Franck Jedrzejewski is a French mathematician and Doctor in philosophy and musicology. He has published about thirty books, including Ontology of Categories (Ontologie des catégories, 2011), research in music theory (Mathematical Theory of Music, 2006, Looking at Numbers, 2013, with composer Tom Johnson, A Compendium of Musical Mathematics, 2024), musicology (Hétérotopies musicales, Preface by Hugues Dufourt, 2019, La musique dodécaphonique et sérielle: une nouvelle histoire, 2021), poetics (L'ombre des mots, 2013, D'une langue à l'autre. Poétique des écritures hétéroglottes, 2026) and in the history of sciences and mathematics (aleatory models and probabilistic physics). With Malgorzata Perigot-Grygielewicz, he published a bilingual French/Polish edition in two large volumes, Polish Futurism (1918-1924). The Palgrave Dictionnary of Microtonal Music will be published in 2026. His research is highly transdisciplinary (music, philosophy, mathematics, Russian and Polish avant-garde). He taught at the University of Paris-Saclay (CEA/INSTN).