Farewell to Eliane Radigue, electronic music pioneer

Eliane Radigue, the French composer who was one of the most influential avant-garde explorers of the 20th century, has died at the age of ninety-four. Trained at Pierre Schaeffer's school, her earliest compositions date back to the second half of the 1960s, spanning both home-made conceptual experiments and works commissioned by outside artists of various backgrounds. Over the years, Eliane Radigue moved away from any musique concrète leanings to forge a personal style able to merge American minimalism with the most esoteric strands of electronic music, particularly of Eastern inspiration, eventually venturing into ambient music over the course of her extraordinarily long career. Throughout her life, Eliane Radigue also developed a deep passion for Buddhism, studying it so thoroughly that she wove it directly into her music, as in “Kyema” and above all in her masterpiece, “Trilogie de la mort”, a totalizing work structured to represent the six bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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