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Paris, France (1932 – present)
Eliane Radigue (born in 1932) is a French electronic music composer whose work, since the early 1970s, has been almost exclusively created using a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system, and tape.
Raised in Paris by middle-class parents, she married the sculptor Yves Arman with whom she lived in Nice while raising their children. She had studied piano and was already composing before having heard a broadcast by the founder of musique concrète Pierre Schaeffer. She met him shortly thereafter and, in the early 50s, she became his student. Subsequently, during periodic visits to Paris she worked at the Studio d’Essai. Later, when the studio’s contents were moved to the studio of the Groupe Recherche Musicale, her work was discarded, due to sexism.
During the early 60s she was assistant to Pierre Henry at which time she created some of the sounds that appeared in his work. As her work gained maturity, Schaeffer and Henry considered her use of microphone feedback with long tape loops as treachery to their own ideals.
Around 1970, she created her first synthesizer-based music at NYU at a studio she shared with Laurie Spiegel on a Buchla synthesizer left by Morton Subotnick. Her goal by that point was to create a slow, purposeful “unfolding” of sound, which she felt to be closer to contemporary minimalism composers of New York than to her previous influences, the French musique concrète composers.
Raised in Paris by middle-class parents, she married the sculptor Yves Arman with whom she lived in Nice while raising their children. She had studied piano and was already composing before having heard a broadcast by the founder of musique concrète Pierre Schaeffer. She met him shortly thereafter and, in the early 50s, she became his student. Subsequently, during periodic visits to Paris she worked at the Studio d’Essai. Later, when the studio’s contents were moved to the studio of the Groupe Recherche Musicale, her work was discarded, due to sexism.
During the early 60s she was assistant to Pierre Henry at which time she created some of the sounds that appeared in his work. As her work gained maturity, Schaeffer and Henry considered her use of microphone feedback with long tape loops as treachery to their own ideals.
Around 1970, she created her first synthesizer-based music at NYU at a studio she shared with Laurie Spiegel on a Buchla synthesizer left by Morton Subotnick. Her goal by that point was to create a slow, purposeful “unfolding” of sound, which she felt to be closer to contemporary minimalism composers of New York than to her previous influences, the French musique concrète composers.
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foucaults_pen wrote:
The most beautiful.
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sseannoah wrote:
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lkndnifkl wrote:
<3
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Torturegarden wrote:
yEAH good for YOU!
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_duif wrote:
good for you.
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NINlife wrote:
perfect meditation music.
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_duif wrote:
that's odd, I bought 'L'île re-sonante' on CD in 2005...
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MATTPHOTOES wrote:
sorry, "l'ile re-sonante" was released 2009. for me it was released 2011 :)
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MATTPHOTOES wrote:
Check out her 2011 album/song "l'ile re-sonante", pure beauty, I am totally stunned. esp by the part around 10:00min - 20:00min. I am really not getting over how awesome this is.
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JackChuter wrote:
Review of "Transamorem Transmortem": http://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/music/4174
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BoothsBullet wrote:
she's a big inspiration on my new album Loree Way will http://willbrant.com
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daleallen wrote:
24
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Edutainment wrote:
NOW! That's What I Call Drone
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rod32lop wrote:
AMAZING JORNEY.
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richwhitelaw wrote:
http://www.soundandmusic.org/projects/triptych-music-eliane-radigue
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incubatetilburg wrote:
Watch a small documentary of Eliane about the ARP 2500 here: http://inlog.org/2011/02/22/watch-interview-with-drone-pioneer-eliane-radigue-about-the-arp-2500/
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m-salami wrote:
She has wonderful eyes
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vavawoom wrote:
beautiful drone / beautiful woman
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phillip360 wrote:
Pauline if you are reading this, I left the front door key at Tony's house. Also he asked you to glue and expand the estrus and electrified 'pataphysics group.
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MATTPHOTOES wrote:
still the best.
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The Playhouse Theatre, Whitstable, United Kingdom
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- Apr 5 Electron 2012 Genève, Genève, Switzerland
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