eliane radigue - transamorem transmortem

2011

composed in 1973

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[khantarya]

Congratulations,my dear friend, for these very happy iniciative! Posting one of the

Radigue´s work --- without cuts,moreover! --- it`s a very likely job! You deserve all

my greetings,sincerelly! Here,in Brazil,we support,yours efforts to divulgated,such

wonders,like this treasure of the best french electronic music! So,please! Accept

my thankings! And my fully admiration! Bravo!

[clarakilledbenito]

obrigado-

[a bird]

Do you enjoy abstract art? Anyone can paint two blue squares, or attack a canvas with a brush, but... they didn't. If you can do this, why don't you? Perhaps the only meaning here is in the creation, and us listeners are fooling ourselves.

Perhaps you could look beyond the obvious. Why this noise? Is it really just noise? Why that tiny 'pip' every few seconds? Is it so bad to find your own meaning? Should an artist be forced to hold the audience's hand?

I'd be less vague, but no char remain. :/

[Max16032]

This is supposedly a sonic recreation of what John Cage was hearing inside the anechoic chamber at Harvard University in 1951. If that is correct, this means Elaine has just reproduced the "sound" of silence. This truly leaves you wondering: What is "silence"?

[phobophob]

it is a state.

[TheScreamingBox]

"Should an artist be forced to hold the audience's hand?"

Genius.

[Daniel Hintz]

i really wish that uploaders would just disable comments for any music/sound uploads.

[Max Shea]

It helps not to approach listening to Radique as "music" but as meditative resonances for spiritual journeys.

[moogyboy6]

To be fair, I do think the piece is a little static for my taste. Interesting experiment, though.

[moogyboy6]

There's a fine line between messing around at random on an analog synth and messing around with a definite purpose. Keep in mind that she was using an ARP 2500 modular synth--no presets, takes an hour to set up and tweak a sound, etc; you can be sure that whatever she put down on tape is there for a reason.

[moogyboy6]

Another thing to consider is that Radigue's music, from what I've read, is connected with her Buddhist faith and meditation, so the long-and-slow approach, besides being very avant garde for the time, makes sense in that context too.

[karol simon]

MAGNIFICO GRAZIE .

[thermalmaximum]

But people weren't doing that in 1973. In 1973 most people had never heard a synth before.Think of the context. If you don't think this music is worth listening to 40 years later, listen to something else.