Further Listening

Selected Links: Eliane Radigue

Eliane Radigue 30 Years Ago and Now (DRAM/NWR)

In the process of digitising 40 Phill Niblock Experimental Intermedia radio shows from the 1980s, DRAM and NWR are using this opportunity to reconnect with the artists featured and examine how their approach has developed 30 years on.

Selected Links: Eliane Radigue

Hear three out of print titles on Ubuweb

Avant-garde enthusiasts Ubuweb have made available three essential but sadly out of print works by Eliane, Geelriandre and Arthesis (1972), Adnos I-III (1975-83) and Kyema, Intermediate States (2002).

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Prism Escape Interview and Empty Music: L'île Re-Sonante

In the first article, Eliane Radigue gives a lengthy interview to Prism Escape about her music-making process and relationship with the ARP 2500.

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The Morning Concert with Eliane Radigue (KPFA-FM, 1980)

This radio interview and performance from December 1980 is hosted by the Internet Archive.

Eliane tells Charles Amirkhanian about her early experiences of concrete music as a student of Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaefer, and explains the later influence of Tibetan Buddism on her work.

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A Portrait of Eliane Radigue (2009, Austrian IMA)

Selected Links: Eliane Radigue

The first UK retrospective of Eliane Radigue's work is to take place in London next month, and to celebrate we have complied a selection of valuable online resources related to the work of France's finest drone composer and queen of the ARP 2500 synthesizer. Posts to follow...

Further with…The Disintegration Loops #5: Oval, 94discont. (Mille Plateaux, 1995)

Further with…The Disintegration Loops #4: Chris Watson, 'Vatnajökull' from Weather Report (Touch, 2003)

Further with…The Disintegration Loops #3: Terry Riley, Music for The Gift (First recorded 1963, can be found on Cortical Foundation CD, 2000)

Further with…The Disintegration Loops #2: Auto-Destructive Art

A violent reaction to a violent world, Auto-Destructive Art is art that self-destructs, if it leaves a trace this is then cast away.

Further with…The Disintegration Loops #1: Indignant Senility, Plays Wagner (Type, 2010)

  Further with…The Disintegration Loops I-IV (MMLXII/2062, 2001-2003)

In the next of our continuing 'Further with...' series we consider William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops. This work comprises six unique loops spread over four separately released discs. 

Extracts from compositions Basinski had recorded to tape in the 1980s provide the source material for these loops. As they were replayed to be digitised the magnetic tape flaked and corroded to varying degrees, we hear the results.

Through the week we will be posting a series of connected sources, a hypothetical "further listening"(/reading!) list.

As ever, the best way of introduction (or reintroduction) to this work is to hear the series of releases in full yourself. You can buy the releases direct from the artist here. The video above is an extract from a dvd accompanying the series.

Further with…Silent Shout #5: Zola Jesus, 'Lady in the Radiator' from New Amsterdam (Sacred Bones Records, 2009)

Further with…Silent Shout #4: Chicks on Speed/Mika Vainio, Flame On (Chicks On Speed Records, 2003)

Further with…Silent Shout #3: Plastikman, 'Disconnect' from Closer (NovaMute/M_nus, 2003)

Further with…Silent Shout #2: Black Hole, Charles Burns (12-issue comic series, 1995-2005)

Further with…Silent Shout #1: Balam Acab, 'See Birds' from See Birds EP (Tri Angle Records, 2010)