Album Review
Radigue, Eliane – “Jouet Electronique/Elemental I” – [Alga Marghen]
lexi glass 10/29/2019 12-inch, A Library
This 2018 Alga Marghen re-release showcases early work from French electronic music pioneer Eliane Radigue, created while she worked as an assistant to Pierre Henry at his Studio Apsome. On these two ~12 minute pieces, Radigue experiments with microphone feedback and tape machines. “Jouet Electronique” (Side A, from 1967) is created simply from recorded feedback that is sped up and slowed down on the reel-to-reel machine to generate layers of eerie, otherworldly vibrations. “Elemental I” (Side B, from 1968) uses similar tape manipulation techniques – this time applied to her own field recordings of the outdoors – to consider the four elements of air, fire, earth, and water. Gorgeous sounds arriving on our airwaves just in time to calibrate our brainwaves for the composer’s live performances at The Lab this December.
you heard it 39 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 77 days ago, Puplaif played Jouet Electronique
- 587 days ago, Cynthia Lombard played Elemental I
- 1120 days ago, Zoltan played Elemental I: III. Terre - Eau - Pluie
- 1121 days ago, Justin Outlier played Elemental I: I. Air - Vent
- 1127 days ago, abacus finch played Elemental I: I. Air - Vent
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