IKLECTIK presents,
A l’écoute d’Éliane Radigue
Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 January 2022
2-day tickets: £16 Student / £22 General Admission https://buytickets.at/iklectik/616241
A weekend of events dedicated to French electronic music pioneer Éliane Radigue.
The 2-day event starts with a music selection by Robin the Fog followed by a 2-hour concert. Radigue’s pieces Arthesis (1973) and Kyema (1988) will be performed by François J. Bonnet (Kassel Jaeger) and diffused through our AMOENUS sound system.
On Sunday afternoon, we will screen ‘Éliane Radigue – Échos’ (2021), a film directed by Eléonore Huisse. The day will conclude with a discussion by speakers (TBA), who have been invited by IKLECTIK to talk on Radigue’s creative practice and wider influence over the last 7 decades.
PROGRAMME
Saturday 22nd – Concert [7:45pm doors]
Arthesis (1973)
Premiered on May 1st, 1973 at the Theater Vanguard in Los Angeles. Moog Modular System on magnetic tape. Produced at the studios of Iowa-University.
«Shuffles from the depths of the ages, from a secret and fierce embrace an indistinguishable clarity that seeks to emerge, traces its fragile advent when everything falls asleep». (Éliane Radigue)
Kyema (1988)
Premiered on November 22, 1980 at Mills College in Oakland. ARP 2500 synthesizer on magnetic tape. Produced at the artist’s studio in Paris.
«Intermediate states
… to my son, Yves Arman
First part of the Trilogie de la Mort.
Inspired by the root text of the Bardo Thödol (Tibetan Book of the Dead), this piece refers to the six intermediate states of consciousness that constitute the existential continuity of being:
1. Kyene – Naissance
2. Milam – Rêve
3. Samten – Contemplation – Méditation
4. Chikaï – Mort
5. Chönye – Claire lumière
6. Sippaï – Traversée et retour»
(Éliane Radigue)
Sunday 23rd [3pm doors]
Éliane Radigue – Échos (2021)
A Film by Eléonore Huisse and François J. Bonnet
Eléonore Huisse image-montage
François J. Bonnet sound
Éliane Radigue music
The filmmaker Eléonore Huisse and the sonic artist François J. Bonnet ask the composer Éliane Radigue a series of existential questions. The result is a portrait of the artist based on intimacy and friendship.
This new film approaches the world of French sound pioneer Éliane Radigue (1932) from a perspective of close proximity. French filmmaker Eléonore Huisse and sound artist François J. Bonnet visit their friend Éliane’s home in Paris in times of social distancing and lockdown to explore questions pertaining to solitude, imagination, retreat, the inner voice and temporality – questions that resonate with Radigue’s work, philosophy and way of living as much as with the acute collective experience of suspension and isolation brought about by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Éliane Radigue
From her Parisian childhood Eliane Radigue kept a secret initiation to music, through the complicity of her piano teacher. Then came the harp, singing and composition. But it was through contact with musique concrète, with Pierre Schaeffer and then Pierre Henry, that Eliane Radigue’s music found its true path.
Over a span of more than 50 years, three distinct periods are articulated, each marking a break but each evoking in its own way an inspired exploration of thresholds, of the spaces that open up in the intervals, and of a dialogue between listening experience and inner experience, personal history and sensitive evocation.
The first period (1968-1971) was the period of work on feedback, an embryonic phase that already signalled an extreme meticulousness and a work on thresholds and fragile equilibriums.
The second phase, that of maturity, and spanning thirty years (1971-2001), was marked by a fertile production of electronic compositions, indelibly linking her music to the unique sounds of her ARP 2500 synthesizer. This period also initiated the development of long forms with subtle variations that blossom and resonate between the history carried by the music and the test of time necessary for its deployment.
The third time, open to this day, is that of her acoustic works created in close collaboration with musician-accomplices from all horizons, bringing an additional relational dimension to a music that had been built up until then in solitary.
Throughout her life, Eliane Radigue has developed a probing, demanding and inspiring body of work which today influences a whole new generation of musicians.
François J. Bonnet
François J. Bonnet is a Franco-Swiss composer, writer and theoretician based in Paris. He’s been a member of INA GRM since 2007 and became its director in 2018. He has published several books : The Order of Sounds, The Infra-World, After Death (Urbanomic) and The Music To Come(Shelter Press). He’s the co-editor of the SPECTRES book series (Shelter Press) and the Recollection GRM and Portraits GRM record series (Editions Mego). He also produces radio shows for France Musique. His music, often presented as Kassel Jaeger, has been played in renowned venues and festivals all over the world.
http://kasseljaeger.com
Eléonore Huisse
Eléonore Huisse is a french cinematographer and photographer based in Paris, France. She studied at renowned film school Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière. Her work, focused on contemplation and captures of auratic moments, has been screened in few places such as Whitney Museum of American Art, MaerzMusik/Berliner Festspiele, Public Access in NYC and Institut Français d’Athènes.
“Sound system powered by AMOENUS. AMOENUS is an art organisation that facilitates, educated, curates and promotes immersive art centred around 3D sound”.
https://amoenus.co.uk
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