THE POLYPHONIC STATE

Abstract & Methodological Prospectus This revised research monograph examines the structural, epistemic, material, and political joints between musical order and legal order. It treats music not merely as an object of intellectual-property regulation but as a parallel normative system whose forms—contrapuntal, cyclic, polyrhythmic, atonal, generative, and oral—illuminate both the capacities and the limits of graphocentric Western jurisprudence. The inquiry is simultaneously scientific and artistic. On the scientific side it proposes computational forensic musicology, actor-network analysis of courtroom acoustics and expert translation, and comparative legal pluralism. On the artistic and humanistic side it recovers the phenomenology of legal listening, the aesthetics of dissonance in adjudication, decolonial oral normativity, and the lecture-recital as a mode of legal scholarship.