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Composed in 2005 in close collaboration with cellist Charles Curtis, \u003ci\u003eNaldjorlak\u003c\/i\u003e marked a striking shift in the music of Éliane Radigue, who has since composed exclusively for instrumentalists with her celebrated Occam series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saltern Imprint","offers":[{"title":"CDx2.","offer_id":50393726550347,"sku":"2049979","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a1325361823_10_18ae31ad_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726424722"},{"product_id":"a-song-for-two-mothers-occam-ix","title":"A Song For Two Mothers \/ Occam IX","description":"\u003cp\u003e Accompanied by notes from Sonami, her longtime collaborator Paul DeMarinis, and Radigue, and illustrated with scores, photographs and images of the Spring Spyre, \u003ci\u003ea Song for two Mothers \/ Occam IX\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential document celebrating an under-recognised pioneer of electronic music and performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Truffle is thrilled to present \u003ci\u003ea Song for two Mothers \/ Occam IX\u003c\/i\u003e the first ever solo release from Laetitia Sonami. Born in France in 1957, Sonami studied with Éliane Radigue in Paris before moving to California in 1978 to study electronic music at Mills College, going on to make important innovations in the field of live electronics interfaces and multi-media performance. Sonami is perhaps most closely associated with one of her inventions, the Lady’s Glove, an arm-length tailored glove fitted with movement sensors allowing the performer fluidly to control digital sound parameters and processing, as well as motors, lights and video playback. Having performed with the Lady’s Glove for 25 years, Sonami retired it in 2016, turning her attention to the interface\/instrument heard and pictured here, the Spring Sprye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Sonami’s own description, “The Spring Spyre is composed of three thin springs that are attached to reverb tank pickups, mounted on a metal ring. The audio generated when the springs are touched, rubbed or struck is analyzed in Max\/MSP. The extracted features are then used to train machine learning models in Wekinator and Rapidmax and control the audio synthesis in real time. We never actually hear the springs.” After decades of aversion to documenting her work on recordings, a Song for two Mothers \/ Occam IX treats listeners to two side-long performances with the Spring Spyre: the very first piece developed for the instrument and the most recent, the two contrasting remarkably in sound palette, energy and form. \u003ci\u003eA Song for two Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) spins an intricate web of rippling synthetic burbles, rapid sweeps and fizzing textures. Performed in real time with the sensitive and partly uncontrollable Spring Sprye (\"a bit tyrannical,\" Sonami calls it), the music is delicate yet chaotic. Abrupt gestures hover against a backdrop of silence, \"devoid of spatial or temporal direction\". After several minutes, the sound-world becomes metallic and percussive, tapping and ticking in pointillistic flurries before a wavering harmonic cloud emerges, sprinkled with resonant drips and pops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOccam IX\u003c\/i\u003e is a radically different proposition. At the outset of Sonami’s exploration of the Spring Sprye, she asked her former teacher Éliane Radigue to compose a piece for it—and her: like all of Radigue’s work since she ceased working with analogue electronics at the beginning of the 21st century, \u003ci\u003eOccam IX\u003c\/i\u003e is written not only for an instrument but also for a particular performer. These scores are developed verbally, through meetings and conversations between performer and composer; each is grounded in an image (usually kept from listeners, to avoid influencing their experience); all magnify the subtlest acoustic phenomena and require great commitment and patience from the performer. Sonami’s is one of the few Occam pieces to make use of electronics, bringing it closer to Radigue’s famous longform pieces for ARP 2500. Beginning from a rumbling low tone, the listener is gradually immersed in slowly lapping waves of synthetic tones, eventually thinning out into delicate bell-like pings against a background of white noise, reminiscent of one of the most beautiful sections of Kyema from the Trilogie de la Morte.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Truffle","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50531720036683,"sku":"2215360","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/BLACKTRUFFLE122_9c69ae63_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728111602"},{"product_id":"opus-17-wo","title":"Opus 17","description":"\u003cp\u003eEliane Radigue's complete Opus 17 (1970), her finest and final work created using feedback, is contained on this double CD. With Opus 17 Radigue perfected her slow mixing technique with sublime results. Imperceptible transformations envelop the attentive listener who is confronted with an immensely physical experience. Time is suspended in powerfully poetic and artful ways as Radigue masterfully sculpts the physical matter of sound using feedback for the last time. Opus 17 is an absolutely essential masterpiece in the realm of early electro-acoustic\/drone\/minimalist composition. Metallic silver ink printed on high gloss paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Important","offers":[{"title":"2CD","offer_id":56713163080011,"sku":"R7020-2435","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/getImage_55ff4b42-edd6-4720-aa1a-732a500ce2c3.jpg?v=1772818521"},{"product_id":"transamorem-transmortem-ev","title":"Transamorem - Transmortem","description":"\u003cp\u003eTransamorem - Transmortem was premiered on March 9, 1974 at The Kitchen in NYC, where the music programmer at the time was Rhys Chatham - this was right before his guitar phase. During this period, Transamorem - Transmortem was presented along with other compositions by Eliane Radigue in a linear mode of listening, although the piece had originally been conceived, during its composition, as a sound installation. Of course, both modes of listening are possible, and each works marvelously in its own way. In their original form, Eliane Radigue's works are magnetic tapes. After being played a few times in public, the tape disappears to its case until a release proposal makes it available again through a disc. During this period Eliane Radigue's compositions became fairly long, some lasting over an hour. Because the tracks could not be edited for some obvious reasons, a vinyl release was unthinkable. It was only in the 90s, with the advent of the CD format, that the long compositions of Eliane Radigue were made available (with the exception of the Song of Milarepa LP on Lovely Music, a work already divided into multiple movements and thus able to be fit onto two sides of an LP). For these reasons, the work of Eliane Radigue remained virtually unknown for twenty years - from the 70s to the 90s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Important","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":56713163112779,"sku":"R1386-6340","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/getImage_c54113b8-a136-4f15-9b04-56f3deb5a0e5.jpg?v=1772818520"},{"product_id":"vice-versa-etc-yj","title":"Vice Versa, Etc.","description":"\u003cp\u003eEliane Radigue; feedback on magnetic tape Includes archival photographs and liner notes. \"1970 was an important year in Eliane Radigue's musical life since it was the year just before she acquired her ARP 2500 synthesizer. Since 1967, she had been using the feedback as a material; feedback from two tape recorders reworked through intensive studio techniques: slowing down, alteration, superimposition, montage. \"In 1970, the last year she dedicated to feedback, several milestone pieces saw the light of day: Omnht, a wonderful sound installation for three out-of-phase tape loops and wall-mounted loudspeakers; the theoretical setting of Labyrinthe Sonore (eventually premiered at Mills College in 1998 in collaboration with Pauline Oliveros, Maggie Payne and William Winant, among others); Opus 17, one of her first compositions in fixed duration (according to Rhys Chatham, a decisive piece that would change his own compositional career); and Vice-Versa, etc…, which appears to be her very last feedback loop composition. \"Vice-Versa, etc… was conceived as a sound installation setting similar to S=a=b=a+b. A single magnetic tape can be played at any speed, a stereo tape of which allows three playings: left channel alone, right channel alone, left and right channels together. These different channels can be overlapped\/crossed over as much as possible, at any speed. Thus the piece reveals itself in its whole dimension, its infinite grace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Important","offers":[{"title":"2CD","offer_id":56713163145547,"sku":"R7513-6842","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/getImage_3a3c1d51-e380-4edd-8a54-22ccf8d5e33a.jpg?v=1772818520"},{"product_id":"aj","title":"29566","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn December 11, 1980 Eliane Radigue performed live on KPFA. Her full performance is included here, remastered, on two compact discs. Upon hearing these performances for the first time in many years Radigue declared them to be the best versions she'd ever heard. Included are full in-studio performances of Chry-ptus and the world premiere of parts one and three of Tryptych.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Important","offers":[{"title":"2CD","offer_id":56713163178315,"sku":"R0248-3217","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/getImage_64ee9985-82f0-47bd-8d8e-4c293053e2db.jpg?v=1772818520"},{"product_id":"triptych-hl","title":"Triptych","description":"\u003cp\u003eEliane Radigue: Arp 2500 Synthesizer \"Back to music after three years of silence.... On the suggestion of Robert Ashley, Douglas Dunn commissioned this piece from Eliane Radigue for choreography. Only the first part of Triptych was staged at the premiere at the Dancehall\/Theatre of Nancy on February 27, 1978. \"Recorded in the composer's studio in Paris. \"After the premiere of Adnos I in San Francisco in 1974, a group of French students introduced Eliane Radigue to Tibetan Buddhism. When she returned to Paris, she began to explore this spirituality in depth, which slowed her musical production up until 1978. Triptych marks her return to composition, and draws its inspiration from 'the spirit of the fundamental elements,' water, air, fire, earth.... Eliane Radigue likes to add that this has often been useful to her in her moments of research and transitions. \"This three-part composition, with its great humility and contemplative simplicity, heralded a new period of work and was the first in a series of masterpieces inspired by Tibetan Buddhism: Adnos II (1980), Adnos III (1981), Songs of Milarepa (1983) - with the voices of Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Robert Ashley -, Jetsun Mila (1986), as well as the Trilogy of Death: Kyema (1988), Kailasha (1991) and Koume (1993).\" ~ Manu Holterbach (translated by Maxime Guitton) Archival images included in the accompanying booklet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Important","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":56713163211083,"sku":"R9616-5522","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":58173429186891,"sku":"R9616-1583","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/getImage_e5700b33-e51a-462d-807c-e98e99534e73.jpg?v=1772818520"},{"product_id":"adnos","title":"Adnos","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Eliane Radigue departed this realm in February 2026, at age 94, she left behind a singular, inimitable body of work. Her focus on slowly changing, highly detailed drone music yielded numerous monoliths among which Adnos stands tall. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComposed and recorded on tape between 1973-1982 using an Arp 2500 modular synthesizer, these astonishing pieces exemplify Radigue's quote about how slow changes, vibrations deep within her sounds, ultimately shape the textures of her sonic work: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If a stone in the river moves, the river is not changed, but after a long time it becomes something completely different.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 2026 repress preserves the 2013 package design; a thorough collaboration between Eliane Radigue and John Brien of Important Records. A 24 page booklet of Adnos era archival material accompanies the three compact discs in a heavy duty quad-fold, 8 panel cardboard jacket printed inside and out. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Important","offers":[{"title":"3CD","offer_id":57585867293003,"sku":"R4779-2272","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fa32caca-e67b-bab6-2bcc-0e9ac2ea99f6.jpg?v=1781536976"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/eliane-radigue.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}