It was just a few days after the Guardian had an article about the delightful drone of the refrigeration cabinets at a Sheffield Co-op store:
…that we learned of the death of Éliane Radigue at the age of 94. Some of the comments to the article describe the musical sounds of some European trains which loops nicely back to Radigue’s apprenticeship with Pierre Schaeffer in the 1950s as he used recordings of trains in his own works.
But this is Éliane Radigue’s Islas resonantes created on her ARP 2500.
At least Apple’s Music app has figured out how to spell her name with the erroneous Radique variant now redirecting to the correct form.
I was never a fan although it was claimed that their roadies lived locally in the house with the deep purple (see what I did there?) curtains that were always drawn. Our teenage vocabulary was insufficient to describe the imagined debauchery within; but they were probably just sleeping having worked all night.
“Do you listen to the radio? If so, how often?”
Yes. BBC Radio 3. Daily.
“How often do you listen to music?”
Daily.
“How often do you discover music? And how do you discover music?”
Frequently. Subscribe to The Wire. Various blogs such as: A closer listen, The Quietus etc., radio.
“What’s your favorite song of all time?”
I do not like/favour songs.
“Has your taste in music evolved over the years?”
Not much. As long as it is an interesting noise and does not try to ‘talk’ to me or tell me a story it will probably taste good.
With the decidedly uninteresting annual Apple Music Replay I was reminded of an old app that grabbed fragments of music from your iTunes library and created a brief iTunes Signature. This was mine from 2008:
As my several years older siblings moved on to other things I inherited the family record player and their old records. One of which was Duane Eddy‘s Peter Gunn (Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube) with Yep on the B side. It was one of those records from the late 50s/early 60s where the guitar had not yet assumed the starring role from the saxophone which wails along to keep things moving.
