music

A superb artist and pioneer of ambient electronic music, Éliane Radigue died yesterday at the age of 94. Radigue was making music like nobody else in the late 20th century. She's an icon, and her music is simultaneously so simple (often just one note layered over itself on an ARP-2500) and yet as vast as the ocean, seemingly containing the entire universe in the soundscapes she constructed. She was composing and making music until the last years of her life; in fact, one of my favorite pieces of hers is Occam XXV, which she made just a few years ago. Truly a titan that will be dearly missed.