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Éliane Radigue — Intermediary Spaces / Espaces intermédiaires (second edition)
book
2024
Second expanded edition
Available via Les Presses du Réel
Éliane Radigue is considered one of the most innovative and influential contemporary composers, from her early electronic music through to her acoustic work of the last fifteen years. Influenced by musique concrète and shaped by regular sojourns in the United States, where she discovered analogue synthesisers, her work unfolds an intensity which is at once subtle and monumental. Through her deep reflections on sound and listening, not only her music but also her working methods have come to shape a widely resonating set of new parameters for working with sound as musical material.
In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. The publication also contains a commented list of works and Radigue’s programmatic text on The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal.
The second edition comprises a new last chapter discussing Radigue’s last big cycle Occam Ocean, with a focus on the oral transmission and ways to expand the work.
Credits:
Editor: Julia Eckhardt
French redaction: Benoit Deuxant, Jean-François Caro
English translation and copy-editors: Eleanor Ivory Weber, Jack Cox (epilogue)
Design: Ines Cox
Publisher: umland editions
Bi-lingual English-French
