French composer Éliane Radigue was born on January 24, 1932 in Paris. She studied musique concrète under Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry in the mid-1950s. Éliane Radigue's early work involved collaborations with Pierre Henry and experiments with tape feedback. In 1974, she began using an ARP 2500 modular synthesizer, creating works like "Adnos I" (1974) and Songs of Milarepa (1983). Her conversion to Tibetan Buddhism in the 1970s influenced compositions such as Trilogie de la Mort (1998), inspired by the Bardo Thodol. In 2000, Éliane Radigue composed her final electronic work, L'Île Re-Sonante, and shifted to acoustic instruments. She received the Golden Nica Award at the festival Ars Electronica in 2006 for this work. Éliane Radigue died from complications after a fall, on February 23, 2026, at the age of 94.
