MATRIXSYNTH: Elaine Radigue and the ARP 2500


Friday, August 28, 2009

Elaine Radigue and the ARP 2500


via Richard Lainhart

You can find a video of Elaine Radigue and her ARP 2500 here.

via Wikipedia:
"Eliane Radigue (born January 24, 1932) is a French electronic music composer. She started her work in the 1950s and her first creations were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created on a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape. Since 2001 she composed mostly for acoustical instruments."




4 comments:

  1. Come on ppl,this is not 'music'!

    It are just a couple of fixed pitches ..

    Like she explain her self in the vid ,ppl would laugh in the past if she would ask them to 'play' her music,this still counts for today lol.

    This is not composing,this is nothing.

    Ppl that hanging around in the contemporary Music entourage (with or without recognition,diplomes,palmarez) automaticaly gets an elitary attitude,some where good but a lot did made only crap,this is a fine example of the later.

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  2. Thanks for your opinion, really useful!!!! If you don't like don't listen. Its very minimalist what do you expect from minimalist music? She pioneered some great techniques and worked and studied and was respected a great deal by the founders of Musique Concrete (The very beginnings of electronic music most would say). She worked with Laurie Spiegel and Morton Subotnick. I find her music difficult, I'm no huge fan but I respect her work and I can see its significance. Thank GOD for people like her that annoy people like you the world would be a very boring place otherwise.

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  3. Thank you Sean. I couldn't agree more. She is a true pioneer of Long Form and Deep Listening.

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  4. .......
    "This is nothing"....

    Somax but do you Know what are you talking about? If you see a Mondrian picture you'll say it's just a square red and blue on a white canvas?

    It' s not a question of your taste but it's a question of study the history of electronic music, the related instruments etc etc.

    A good start could be the sub rosa cd series "an anthology of noise & electronic music"

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