A concert featuring the work of Éliane Radigue arrives at Arnolfini this month
Posted on: 05 Oct 2022A special concert featuring the music of renowned innovator Éliane Radigue – widely regarded as one of the most influential active composers in the world - will take place in BS1 this month.
Radigue specialises in collaborating with other musicians, on this occasion violinist Angharad Davies, harpist Rhodri Davies, and double bassist Dominic Lash, who will all perform on the day.
On Saturday 15 October, Harbourside venue Arnolfini will host this exciting event taking place between 14:00 and 18:30 (with an interval).
More information about this event and tickets can be found via Arnolfini’s website.
Arnolfini is celebrating Eliane Radigue, one of the most regarded and influential composers today, in her concert Pieces of Occam Ocean.
— Arnolfini (@ArnolfiniArts) October 4, 2022
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Born in 1932, Radigue studied under Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry – both pioneers of musique concrete, a type of composition utilising natural sounds – in the 1950s.
She reconnected with the latter during the late 1960s becoming his studio assistant, all the while developing a fascination with the American minimalists and new synthesizer technologies.
Until 2000, her work was predominantly produced electronically. But after the turn of the millennium, Radigue began composing for acoustic instruments.
In 2011, another shift occurred as Radigue began exclusively composing in collaboration with individual performers, working with their personal techniques and relationship to their instrument.
On Saturday 15 October, violinist Angharad Davies, harpist Rhodri Davies, and double bassist Dominic Lash will perform music written for them by Radigue.
Speaking of her demands of collaborators, Radigue says: “What I ask of the musicians is highly demanding. Rather than the virtuosity of speed, it concerns the virtuosity of absolute control of the instrument, an extreme, subtle and delicate kind of virtuosity.
“Regardless of what is being used, the essential goal is to produce and bring out the partials, the overtones, the harmonics and sub harmonics, these vibrations in the air, not only those of the string or the breath, but the intangible contents of sound. An instrument vibrating beyond the fundamental(s) generates an extraordinary richness that turns into fascination.”
More information about this event, Radigue, and the three performers can be found via Arnolfini’s website.
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