Éliane Radigue

Éliane Radigue was born in Paris, France. She studied electroacoustic music techniques at the Studio d’essai at the RTF, under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry (1957−1958). In 1967−1968 she worked again with Pierre Henry, as his assistant at the Studio Apsome.

Her music, its source an Arp synthesizer and medium recording tape, attracted considerable attention for its sensitive, dappled purity. She was in residence at the electronic music studios of the University of Iowa and California Institute of the Arts in 1973.

Becoming a Tibetan Buddhist in 1975, Radigue went into retreat, and stopped composing for a time. When she took up her career again in 1979, she continued to work with the Arp synthesizer which has become her signature. She composed “Triptych” for the Ballet Théâtre de Nancy (choreography by Douglas Dunn), “Adnos II” & “Adnos III”, and began the large-scale cycle of works based on the life of the Tibetan master, Milarepa.

In 1984 Radigue received a “bourse à la creation” from the French Government to compose “Songs of Milarepa”, and a “Commande de l’état” in 1986 for the continuation of the Milarepa cycle with “Jetsun Mila”.

Notoriously slow and painstaking in her work, Radigue has produced in the last decade or so on average one major work every three years. Very recently, in response to the demands of musicians worldwide, she has begun creating works for specific performers and instruments together with electronics. The first of these was for bass player Kaspar Toeplitz, and more recently the American cellist Charles Curtis.

Performances of her music have taken place at galleries and museums the USA and in Europe.

Radigue currently lives in France, where she continues to compose electronic music and study the teachings of the Tibetan lamas. She returns to the United States periodically to present programmes of her electronic works.

As of February 2015

Past Events

Concert & binaural audio livestream
Éliane Radigue

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 17

Chry-ptus (1971)

Sunday, 27 March 2022

23:00–00:00

Éliane Radigue

Past Events

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 17

Chry-ptus (1971)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 16

7th Birth (1971)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 15

L’Île re-sonante (2000)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 14

Jetsun Mila (1986)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 13

Triptych (1978)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 12

Les Chants de Milarepa V (1983)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 11

Les Chants de Milarepa I–IV (1983)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 10

Transamorem – Transmortem (1973)

Éliane Radigue:The Electronic Works 9

Ψ 847 (1973)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 8

Opus 17 (1970)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 7

Biogenesis (1973), Arthesis (1973)

Occam Océan

Klangforum Wien and ONCEIM play works by Éliane Radigue, Liza Lim, Patricia Bosshard

Éliane Radigue: The Electronik Works 6

Adnos III (Prélude à Milarepa) (1982)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 5

Adnos II (1980)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 4

Adnos I (1974)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 3

Trilogie de la Mort III. Koumé (1991)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 2

Trilogie de la Mort II. Kailasha (1991)

Éliane Radigue: The Electronic Works 1

Trilogie de la Mort I. Kyema (1988)

Éliane Radigue: “Trilogie de la Mort”

3 hours of sound meditation

Éliane Radigue – Échos

A cinematic encounter with Éliane Radigue by François J. Bonnet and Eléonore Huisse

Opening: Liquid Room

Ictus Ensemble, ensemble mosaik, Bruce McClure, Eva Reiter, Cédric Dambrain