An Interview with Éliane Radigue

Not many people know that the male-dominated noise scene of today owes itself to the female pioneers, like Radigue, of the musique concrète genre. People have a hard time grokking the appeal of noise music but to me it's the deep blue of the cities, the violence and hum of our machines.

I stewed in this scene for years in my early twenties in Copenhagen, right at the time the women were reasserting their birthright over the genre with artists like Pharmakon and Puce Mary.

It was a time of a lot of suffering for me but I was also so thankful for the splintering cracks of their invented, burly instruments and voices like saws or some antediluvian Eve. It was a warm comfort to hear the tumult of cities crying with you.

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This has a much deeper insight into what went into making her music.

Thank you jim-jim-jim for posting this. I love Éliane’s music and hadn’t seen this interview with her before.

Her description of her life and interactions with Arman and his friends in their early days, while relatively brief, I found fascinating.