The legendary French electronic and electroacoustic artist Éliane Radigue passed away. She was 94.
The news was posted to the Instagram page of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, a music research group originally founded by composer Pierre Schaeffer in the 1950s. Read their full statement below.
Radigue started out working for Schaeffer and his colleague Pierre Henry at their Studio d'Essai in Paris. Though interested in their musique concrète practices, Radigue soon grew her own passions in music and started working with microphone feedback and tape loops.
The composer was interested in the passage of time and its perceptions. That's what led her to compose long works like Transamorem-Transmortem and Trilogie de la mort, which were made of a single slow-moving, ever-evolving note or sound.
This meditative sound, which was influence by her buddhist beliefs, was profoundly impactful for experimental, drone, and ambient music artists all over the world.
During recent decades, Radigue had also worked with acoustic sounds. Last year, she premiered OCCAM DELTA XXIII, a collaborative work created with Carol Robinson and Ensemble Klang.
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