French composer, 87, wins electronic music prize
mainThe 10,000 Euro Giga Hertz Grand Prize 2019 has gone to the composer Eliane Radigue, who is 87 years old and has lived in New York for 40 years.
The prize is notionally for her life’s work. It may also be an epitaph for mid-20th century experimentalism.
when the world was young
Curious how quickly such vision of the musical future has dated, in spite of so much effort to keep it beyond the horizon of the present, in an eternal ‘tomorrow’, while so much music from bygone ages has remained fresh and compellingly part of an eternal present.
Well deserved. Her music has a wonderful sense of modesty, never imposing itself on the listener, yet building fascinating three-dimensional sonic landscapes. L’Île resonante alone is worth the money!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df0PmCQLago
She discovered a major chord (Bb), distored it a bit, and kept it going. At 3/4 of the time she ran out of ideas and restricted herself to a buzz. Welcome in the future universe of electronic invention.
And get the hell off my lawn, ya damn kids ya!