13 Facts About Eliane Radigue

Eliane Radigue's began working in the 1950s and her first compositions were presented in the late 1960s.

Eliane Radigue was born in a modest family of merchants and raised in Paris at Les Halles.

Eliane Radigue's later married the French-born American artist Arman with whom she lived in Nice while raising their three children, before returning to Paris in 1967.

Eliane Radigue's had studied piano and was already composing before hearing a broadcast by the founder of musique concrete Pierre Schaeffer.

Eliane Radigue's soon met him, and in the early '50s became his student, working periodically at the Studio d'Essai during visits to Paris.

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At the institution, Eliane Radigue was trained on tape music techniques as a part of her education in musique concrete.

Eliane Radigue described the experience of working in the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrete as eye-opening, as it introduced her to the idea that any sounds were able to be considered musical.

Eliane Radigue left Studio d'Essai due to the need to support her children's education.

In 1967, Eliane Radigue reconnected with Pierre Henry and started to work as his assistant at Studio Apsome.

Around 1970, Eliane Radigue created her first synthesizer-based music in a studio she shared with Laurie Spiegel on a Buchla synthesizer installed by Morton Subotnick at NYU.

Eliane Radigue's experimented with Buchla and Moog synthesizers before finding in the ARP 2500 synthesizer the vehicle she would use exclusively for the next 25 years in forging her characteristic sound, beginning with Adnos I .

Eliane Radigue's returned to composition, picking up where she left off, using the same working methods and goals as before, finishing Adnos II in 1979 and Adnos III in 1980.

Eliane Radigue's participated in their first album Before the Libretto on the Quecksilber label in 2005.