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Eliane RADIGUE

Eliane Radigue (born 1932) is a French musician who has composed for synthesizer and magnetic tape since 1970. Unusually, since the early 1970s, she has tended to work almost exclusivly with a single synth, the ARP 2500 modular system. She studied with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry intermittently in the 1950s and 60s and developed her editing techniques under their tutelage in Musique Concrete. They considered her later use of the synthesizer a treachery to their ideals but her practice was still influenced heavily by their methods.After performing the first third of her masterpiece, Adnos I, in 1974 at Mills College, a group of visiting French music students suggested that her music was conducive to meditation and that she should look into Tibetan Buddhism, two things that she had very little familiarity with.