Eliane Radigue

anyone ever hear feedback works 1969 - 1970 btw? too rich for my blood.

This thread is making me wish I had an extra $300

>feedback works 1969 - 1970

it's good, it's tape-saturated & noisy. not meditative, very full on. it's got a mixed version of 'Vice Versa' (as much as I enjoy the archival CD presentations that simply give you separate tracks of each ingredient on different discs so you can mix them yourselves, I also enjoy hearing examples of realized performances)

I've read a review or two online complaining of Radigue fatigue after the last few years of never-before-released early pieces, but yes I do get the impression everything was sort of building towards a good edition of 'Psi 847' coming out. The later pieces have soothing moments, this one is just intense raw consciousness

personally I can't really complain about the deluge since I haven't heard anything I'd consider a dud yet. but 847 seems special.

and thanks for the info on feedback works. you've definitely piqued my curiosity.

Naldjorlak I, II, III, anyone?

It's fantastic. Radigue really knows how to write in her own voice for acoustic instruments now.

The first disc is still Charles Curtis, doing a new performance of Naldjorlak I, which came out on the same label a few years ago; still the same structure but a very different piece now that he's been touring with it for a few years. I saw him play it in SF about two years ago at The Lab; he played it unamplified in a mid-sized room, and encouraged everyone to huddle around him as closely as they could sit. Most of the piece is extremely quiet, and everyone in the room had to keep quiet to listen.

The piece is basically Curtis bowing various points across the entire length of his cello, largely the strings but not always the strings; he works his way up, then all the way down. The piece climaxes when moves to playing the metal peg stand, which surprisingly makes an incredible high pitched pulsating sound. It actually sounds a lot like 7.5 ips reel to reel tape delay feedback, once the original signal has disintegrated entirely into oscillating white noise; in other words, it sounds a lot like her earliest feedback works. Which is really something.

hah, MP beat me to it. here's what I was about to post:

I have to spend some more time with them (it's a lot of music!) but my impression is definitely favorable. I'd been avoiding the naldjorlak material because I thought I wouldn't be as interested in radigue working outside an 'electronic' context... but I felt a little silly about that after hearing this set. different instrumentation but working towards similar goals. I don't think you'll be disappointed if you're already a fan.

Thought it would be great just through Curtis' involvement in it.

Feels like the first record of the year I need to get hold of.

You can hear Charles Curtis, Rhodri Davies, Robin Hayward and Dafne Vicente-Sandoval performing some recent Radigue pieces in this selection (the first of four) from the recent Tectonics Festival in Glasgow. Worth a listen, imho.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vgxvt

Sorry, I should say, you WILL be able to hear... after Saturday the 16th.

The Radigue pieces were extremely quiet and the audience was not, so it will be interesting to hear if some of the egregious coughs have been edited out.

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/specials/2015-eliane-radigue-feature/

great article -- wasn't aware that schaeffer and henry were chauvinists but it is not surprising.

Thanks for posting!

Tx!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVAM_O7Z2y8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DAWBuyzPwvg

rhodri davies doing occam i a week or two back was a gorgeous thing

trilogie d'la mort on has been on repeat for the past two weeks while i read / sleep / do yoga etc

and sit and eat chocolate and nuts like i'm doing right now.

finally accepting orders: http://www.shiiin.com/shiiineer1.php

also, Issue #1 of Blank Forms has published Ian Nagoski's 1998 interview with Radigue originally intended for the cancelled Halana #5, and it is a particularly interesting interview. whole issue solid, Amacher cover story too.

http://blankforms.org/magazine/

second volume is Occam Océan for Orchestra

the slow bank into the final third is a sound I haven't really exactly heard

New to this, 'Trilogie De La Mort' is just amazing. Which one do I check out next, or is it simply "all good"?

she's consistent, though each work is just distinct enough so everyone has different favorites. so the 14 CD INAGRM box that came out last year can't be beat.

there are now three distinct periods, feedback (1960~1970), synthesizer (1970~2005), acoustic (2005 onward). the box covers the synth period minus 'Transamorem - Transmortem'. The Alga Marghen label put out three compilations of the early works, 'Feedback Music' is a good start, the two 'Occam Océan' CDs are probably the place to start with the acoustic.

Been listening to Geelriandre / Arthesis on YouTube as I was considering buying the vinyl reissue on Important Records. Does anyone know if it comes with a download? I’m suspecting it doesn’t.

Just picked up the Adnos trilogy. Looking forward to diving in later.

have been mesmerised by Occam Ocean 2 today.

Eliane Radigue is the motherfucking bomb y'all forever in my heart and soul

Aw :) Which one(s) are you turned on by atm?

I listen to Trilogie a *lot*

extremely powerful music

It's mindblowing stuff.

agreed all around, her work is monumental. and recently read this book, and would recommend.

https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=7465

Interesting indeed. And I had no idea Les presses du réel published English-language material.

book is fantastic, Eckhardt gets her to go into detail on every single piece. lots of insights into early inspirations and the early feedback / pre-synth work. and lots about Occam Océan 2 for orchestra, which she does the same way she writes for individuals - she meets with every single member of the ensemble for at least a day, has them demonstrate their instrument and she builds up from there

still playing Occam Ocean 2 a lot. there isn't anything like it. in a sane world there'd be reviews.

I think the only place I saw it reviewed was on an obscure free jazz blog

That book looks great

There is so much going on in her work in such a subtle way

I feel like listening to it in my kitchen on my hundred quid speakers is not doing it right. Can only dream of kitting out the Rothko Chapel with a state of the art sound system and listening to it full welly!

in my tentative and unschooled opinion music actually doesn't get any better than Eliane Radigue

yeah for real

Trilogie is one of my top discoveries from the ambient albums poll

Some fool obviously didn't think much of "Jetsun Mila" so I picked it up secondhand for less than a fiver. Sweet!

(... also "Una Lucertola con la Pelle di Donna" by Morricone, maybe a different fool though).

90 years old today

looking forward to hearing her first organ work Occam XXV when it comes out in March.

This month's The Wire has a good Primer on her discography. It had an interesting factoid that it's only recently that she's developed a significant discography.

https://vimeo.com/541076521/d661c359f7

short doc here

NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/arts/music/eliane-radigue-music.html

looking forward to hearing her first organ work Occam XXV when it comes out in March.

It's a total beaut

https://organreframed.bandcamp.com/album/occam-xxv-2

there's a live performance from a couple of years back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jdHIHzvhkQ

Already sold out! Hope there will be a second run.