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Talking online with the excellent David Reid, friend of Keith Rowe, I found out that there was one piece of Eliane Radigue's that I don't have yet, a reissue of Elemental 1. Strangely I found this out while listening to Pierre Henry's piece Le Voyage, based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Radigue composed Elemental 1 at his studio while working on his stuff.
Again, what is it that just knocks the socks off of most electronic music about musique concrète? It's the approach to sounds as objects translated by the media in which they appear. It's the huge configuration space in which this music sits, surely including electronic music but going beyond it.
I highly highly recommend Pierre Henry's work. Le Voyage is very much mostly slices of breath and feedback.
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