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drones and vibrations II
Tonight Elaine Radigue is performing in Chicago. In the 1950s she trained with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, the big guns of French electroacoustic composition, and from 1973-1980 she produced a long minimal work for the ARP synthesizer, the Adnos trilogy (recently relased as a 3-disc set on Table of the Elements). Since then, she's continued to work with the ARP, releasing work on avant-garde labels like Experimental Intermedia. Tonight she'll be performing a new piece, L'ile re-sonante.
Like many minimalist composers from that time period, she has an interest in Buddhism, and so her work has a transcendental basis, an interest in "the Universal from which everything comes." Expect a write-up to appear in Imaginary Year, as part of the media diet of that work's transcedental drone lover, Thomas.
Grading update: 100 finished, 500 to go.
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Saturday, September 28, 2002
1:12 PM
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