Portrait #04 | Eliane Radigue

Portrait #04 | Eliane Radigue

IMAfiction by IMA Institute for Media Archaeology
S1 · E4
Jul 20, 2026
14:43

Episode notes

A Portrait by IMA [2006]. Language: Français

https://ima.or.at/de/projekt/imafiction_portrait04/

Eliane Radigue has been composing electronic music since the 1960s. She is considered one of the most important and innovative composers of the 21st century. As the only French composer of her generation, Radigue can be described as a pioneer of both electronic music and minimal music.

“Her music is like a slow stream, moving through dense, barely perceptible shifts in sound. A timeless architecture of profound sounds that appeal not only to the mind or the ear, but to the entire body. Music that sweeps you away as soon as you immerse yourself in it. Music that possesses the enormous subtlety of the sound of the sea.” (Emmanuel Holterbach) Translation from the English by Gina Mattiello

supported by Lower Austria Culture, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (bm:ukk), Ars Electronica, ORF Upper Austria and the Federal Chancellery of Austria

supported by Lower Austria Culture and the Federal Chancellery: Arts

Keywords

Electronic Music Pioneers, Electroacoustic Music Sound Art, Psychoacoustics, Women in Sound, Experimental Composition, Spatial Audio, Musique Concrète, Techno Culture