Alien Roots: Eliane Radigue

Radigue, Eliane

ISBN 10: 1953691226 / ISBN 13: 9781953691224

Published by Blank Forms Editions, US, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alien Roots: Eliane Radigue
• Publisher: Blank Forms Editions, US
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1953691226
• ISBN 13: 9781953691224
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A detailed look at the elusive work of a French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic composition

This volume is an exploration of the early electronic work of French composer Éliane Radigue (born 1932), whose radical approach to feedback, analog synthesis and composition on tape has long evaded straightforward interpretation. Combining key texts, newly translated primary documents, in-depth interviews and commissioned essays, this compendium probes her idiosyncratic compositional practice, which both embraces and confounds the iterative nature of magnetic tape, the subtleties of amplification and the very experience of listenership.
Chief among these entries is an in-depth overview by cellist Charles Curtis examining the composer’s earliest experiments in feedback techniques and analog synthesis, her eventual turn to works for unamplified instruments and live performers, and her unique aesthetic of time and presence. Detailed conversations provide crucial windows into her working methods at different points in her career. Sketches for unrealized work, contemporary reviews, programs and ephemera are collected together for the first time. The anthology concludes with a roundtable discussion working out the knotty paradoxes of Radigue’s continued "ethos of resistance."