nytimes/26/02/23 Eliane Radigue Dies at 94

• Éliane Radigue, Composer of Time, Silence and Space, Dies at 94

  • Summary

    • Person/Eliane Radigue died in Paris on 2026-02-23 Mon at age 94, from complications after a fall.
    • The obituary frames her work around time, silence, and space, and traces three overlapping phases of her career: early tape and feedback experiments, decades of ARP 2500 synthesizer work, and later acoustic collaborations.
    • Her Tibetan Buddhist practice shaped major works including Trilogie de la Mort, Songs of Milarepa, and Jetsun Mila.
    • Later landmarks include Naldjorlak and the long-running Occam cycle, which grew into dozens of interconnected works.

  • Details

    • Born Éliane Louise Thérèse Radigue on 1932-01-24 Sun in Paris.
    • Worked with Person/Pierre Schaeffer and Person/Pierre Henry in Paris and later became part of the New York experimental-music milieu around figures like Person/John Cage, Person/La Monte Young, Person/Terry Riley, and Person/Steve Reich.
    • Her ARP/2500 synthesizer, which she named Jules, was central to her music for roughly 30 years.
    • In the 2000s she shifted toward acoustic commissions and collaborations with performers including Charles Curtis, Carol Robinson, Bruno Martinez, and Kasper T. Toeplitz.

  • Suggested Tags

    • electroacoustic music
    • electronic music
    • drone
    • minimalist music
    • musique concrète
    • acousmatic music