Éliane Radigue

Feminale der Musik

The composer Éliane Radigue is a pioneer of electronic music. In 2019, the ZKM honored her with the Giga-Hertz Award for Electronic Music for her life's work.

She was born on January 24, 1932 in Paris, where she still lives and works today. From her childhood in Paris, Éliane Radigue will preserve the memory of a secret introduction to music by an understanding piano teacher. Then she adds harp, singing and composition to the piano. But it is only through contact with »Musique concrète« with Pierre Schaeffer and later with Pierre Henry that Éliane Radigue will find her true path.

In over 50 years there will be three different periods, always marking a break, but each one in its own way representing an inspired exploration of thresholds, of spaces that expand in intervals, and a dialogue between auditory experience and inner experience, between personal history and sensual memory.

The first period (1968–1971) was that of work on feedback and reinjection, an embryonic phase already marked by extreme precision and work on thresholds and threatened balances.

The second period, which spans thirty years (1971–2001), is characterized by a fruitful production of electronic compositions that in an indissoluble way combine their music with the unique beats of their ARP 2500 synthesizer. This period is also marked by the development of long forms with subtle variations that disappear and resound between the history carried by the music and the time necessary for its unfolding.

The third and still ongoing period is that of her mainly acoustic works, which are produced in close collaboration with like-minded musicians from all over the world, giving an additional relational dimension to music that was previously created alone.

In the course of her life, Éliane Radigue has produced a researching, demanding and inspiring oeuvre which today influences a whole new generation of musicians.

Music Pieces

Éliane Radigue »OCCAM RIVER XXII« (2018), for bass clarinet and alto saxophone
Recording of the German debut performance on 24.11.2019 at ZKM | Karlsruhe

Éliane Radigue, Carol Robinson »OCCAM XXII« (2018), for vocals
Recording of the German debut performance on 24.11.2019 at ZKM | Karlsruhe

Éliane Radigue »OCCAM DELTA XIX« (2019), for baryton, Birbynė and alto saxophone
Recording of the world premiere on 24.11.2019 at ZKM | Karlsruhe

Baryton, vocals: Yannick Guédon
Birbynė, Bass clarinet: Carol Robinson
Alto Saxophone: Bertrand Gauguet

Lecture

Francois Bonnet on the work and creativity of Éliane Radigue on 24.11.2019 at ZKM | Karlsruhe

Interview

Éliane Radigue in an interview with Ludger Brümmer as part of the Giga-Hertz Award 2019

Disclaimer

- Links to external websites of other providers
- Expand
- The ZKM’s express objective is the accuracy and current relevance of any information it makes available on this web site. Mistakes and ambiguities cannot, however, be fully excluded. For this reason, the ZKM is unable to fully guarantee the current relevance, accuracy, completeness or quality of the information it makes available. The ZKM is not subject to coercible legal rules and regulations and to any kind of damages of a material or immaterial nature that may possibly be caused by the use or non-use of the information provided, including free downloads. The ZKM reserves the right to change or delete, to temporarily or permanently suspend access to the web sites at any time.
  The responsibility for »external content« to which access is made, in the form of e.g., links, presupposes, among other things, positive knowledge of illegal or punishable content. The ZKM has no influence on this external content and entirely distances itself from such content. Should the displayed external web site include unlawful or offensive content, the ZKM expressly distances itself from such content. When made knowledgeable of such content, the ZKM will deactivate the corresponding link. The same holds for external entries contained in Blogs and discussion forums, links directories, mailing lists and all other forums of databanks operated by the ZKM, the content of which is rendered possible via write access.
  All content of the present web site (texts, images, video stills, videos, audios, graphics etc.), the structure as well as the layout of this web site is protected by copyright. These contents, and the information made available by the ZKM (e.g., text and image materials) are available exclusively for individual usage by users of this web site, and not for commercial purposes. These contents may be distributed and copied, made public on the Internet and used for commercial purposes only with the prior consent of the ZKM. Similarly, the placing of deep links, inline links, frame links or similar links in which the ZKM web site is not clearly evident as source, is permitted only with the prior consent of the ZKM. Messages and references to content »share« in social media (e.g. Facebook) do not come under the proviso of this reserve approval. For press releases and photographs valid instructions for usage can be found at: www.zkm.de/en/press/service.
  All labels and trademarks named and protected by third parties are subject to the unreserved stipulations of the respective registered owners. That trademarks are not protected by third part rights cannot be assumed merely by mention of the name.
  This disclaimer is to be understood as part of the ZKM’s Internet content. In so far as part or single formulations of this text do not, are no longer or are do not entirely correspond to this legal provision, the remaining parts of this document remain unaffected in its content and validity.

The text »Feminale der Musik« with two portraits of women, one lady in an 18th century painting and the second in a 20th century photograph.

Mon, 06.04.2020 – Fri, 01.05.2020

Feminale of Music – Female Composers

The ZKM honors female composers with a four-week digital festival