Jos Kunst was first and foremost a thinker; all of his work, whether music, poetry, essays, or research, revolved around the connection between the maker, the object and the observer. This, according to Kunst, created a “learning process” founded on logical mechanisms that could be described in mathematical-logical terms – this by no means is to say that as an artist he placed all his faith in rules or precepts. His idiom was decidedly avant-gardist, but Kunst also explored the edges of that region. “Let everyone open their ears wide, and beyond that think what they will. If all goes well, the music will take hold of their thoughts, giving them if not substance, then form. Possibly, the production of meaningful structures, attitudes of thought, is in the long run more effective than the imposition of concrete ideas. Perhaps music is still good for something”, Kunst wrote in a text he used as the standard introduction to all his works.