Éliane Radigue in full, uninterrupted motion, is breathtaking in her thoughts. So it’s wonderful that the filmmakers behind the documentary short Échos have put that film up for free to honor her memory this week.
Get ready for sprawling shots of the ARP modular synthesizer and deep reflections on the meaning of music, sound, and listener here (all in her native French, with English subtitles). There are scores and outlines and ideas, flowing as if about to tumble over a waterfall. The camera wanders gently as if following along the train of thought.
All of it is accompanied by a montage of Radigue compositions.
I’ve been thinking a lot about water lately, as always. So I was moved especially by this idea of being inspired by the hydrological cycle and the sea — the Mediterranean Sea, especially — here:
“What is a continuous cycle … above all, what is associated with water, is the inner richness of its sound content. This particular universe is what I have always wanted to explore.”
There’s a symmetry to that, isn’t there? We commune with that ocean of unknowable infinites in music, even if just bobbing on a wave. And then we return to that endless sea.
Éliane Radigue – Échos by Eléonore Huisse
Thanks to Robin for this one:
In memory of Éliane Radigue the makers of this documentary have made it free to view online. What a lovely gesture vimeo.com/541076521/d6…
— Robin Rimbaud – Scanner (@scannerdot.com) February 26, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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I was just walking in the unexpected sun and warmth here in Berlin, listening to this: