Eliane Radigue

a portrait by IMA

interviews: Cornelia Primosch (ORF), Daniela Swarowsky
camera: Sepp Thoma (ORF), Anais Prosaic
film editing: Elena Tikhonova, Anais Prosaic
sound: Henry Roux
soundediting: Elisabeth Schimana
filmed in Paris

Eliane Radigue has composed electronic music since the sixties. She is the only French woman composer of her generation who can be considered to be a pioneer of this genre, and of minimal music as well.

Her music is a slow flux of dense sounds subject to imperceptible mutations. A timeless architecture of deep vibrations speaking not to the intellect or to hearing, but to the entire body. A music which is unsettling if one submerges oneself in it. A music that possesses the monumental subtlety of the movement of oceans.

Emmanuel Holterbach
(Translation Leslie Stuck)