Bleep

Eliane Radigue’s music is known for its eternal structures, seemingly existing outside of the confines of time and space. On this reissue of Opus 17, Important Records highlight one of the musique concrète figurehead’s most formative works, containing her last compositions with tape feedback in 1970. Throughout, we find audible manifestations of tape reels rotating, manipulated until they breathe, chirp, and howl. The recording medium makes itself increasingly evident until it completely takes over, abstracting what is left of elegant source compositions in favour of sonorous experiments that work with sound at its most fundamental level.