Éliane Radigue

Éliane Radigue is a French electronic music composer. She began working in the 1950s with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.  In the sixties she started composing with the Arp 2500 which became her sole instrument. Since 2001, Radigue only collaborates with instrumentalists, and applies a process of composition which resembles the means of oral transmission of traditional music. The first such collaboration was initiated by contrabassist Kasper T. Toeplitz. Subsequent projects in this vein include the three Naldjorlak, as well as the monumental Occam Océan, performed by some of the most esteemed musicians of our time. This cycle comprises more than 70 pieces for instrumental forces ranging from solo to orchestral.