Author: Radigue, ElianeThis volume is an exploration of the early electronic work of French composer Éliane Radigue, whose radical approach to feedback, analogue synthesis and composition on tape has long evaded straightforward interpretation. Combining key texts, newly translated primary documents, in-depth interviews and commissioned essays, this compendium probes her idiosyncratic compositional practice.Chief among these entries is an in-depth overview by cellist Charles Curtis examining the composer’s earliest experiments in feedback techniques and analogue synthesis, her eventual turn to works for unamplified instruments and live performers, and her unique aesthetic of time and presence. Detailed conversations provide crucial windows into her working methods at different points in her career. Sketches for unrealised work, contemporary reviews, programs and ephemera are collected together for the first time. The anthology concludes with a roundtable discussion working out the knotty paradoxes of Radigue’s continued “ethos of resistance.”ISBN 9781953691224. Blank Forms Editions. pb. 407 pages. 73 colour, 35 b/w ills. 20.3 x 15.2 cm.available
