# Eliane Radigue [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liane_Radigue) ( b. 1932 ) ## Description French composer of slow-evolving, deeply attentive electronic music, working for decades almost exclusively with a single ARP 2500 synthesizer before turning, from the mid-2000s, to acoustic composition for solo instrumentalists and small ensembles. ## Key Tags #sound ## Essential Works - *Kyema, Intermediate States* (1990) - long-form ARP 2500 work informed by Tibetan Buddhist conceptions of the bardo - *Trilogie de la Mort* (1988–93) - three-part electronic work on death and transition, her best-known ARP-era composition - OCCAM series (2011– ) - ongoing series of acoustic and mixed works for solo and small-ensemble instrumentalists, composed through close collaborative listening sessions with each performer ## Details Developed an intensely intimate, slow-listening working method with her ARP 2500 synthesizer (which she named "Jules"), producing long-duration pieces built from minute timbral shifts rather than event-based structure. From the mid-2000s shifted to acoustic composition, developing the ongoing OCCAM series through direct collaborative sessions with performers rather than conventional notation. ### Concepts and Theories %% none yet %% ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements %% none yet %% ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Dougherty, William. "Imagining Together: Éliane Radigue's Collaborative Creative Process." ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021. [link](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2533205987?pq-origsite=primo&accountid=14784). Ergün, Cenk. "Flux and Stasis in the Music of Feldman, Radigue, & Young." ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020. [link](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2393752033?pq-origsite=primo&accountid=14784). Silliman, Daniel Alexander. "Transcendent Machine: An Analysis of Éliane Radigue's ARP 2500 Synthesizer Music." ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023. [link](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2826073849?pq-origsite=primo&accountid=14784). Close reading of *Kyema*, her recording process, and the intersubjectivity between Radigue and "Jules" (her ARP 2500). La Synthèse Humaine. *Songs Of Éliane*. 2026, 24:54. [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uT33mdd3MY). Demonstrates a Serge patch modelled after Radigue's ARP technique.