EPISODE 18: Eliane Radigue 01.24.1932 - 02.23.2026

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Oh! This is exactly what I’ve be looking for all my life. I don’t known if this is music. I don’t know what it is. There so many layers of going deep into the material. A way to live: Escape capture.Apply pure spontaneous investigative logic to the material at hand.Restraint.A radical openness to be in dialogue with the thing you observe. A feedback pieceA piece for wolf tones A piece with words It’s so punk sounding. So raw, so organic. I can’t think of anything French that sounds like that. I don’t know what it is. It’s so much about the material of the real. A store outing:The space whistles. It felt daunting.Then it’s the most natural thing in the world— We can not bridge it, because it is inside. It’s undeniable. A person who makes the one song their entire life. From birth to death they’ve been doing that, the needle that plays the universes song. If they want to come for us, they can but we’re making this anyways. To have that as radical praxis. There’s obviously something at work there. It’s a resonating machine. A flat affect transmission. It’s got all the ingredients. I should do this every goddamn Sunday. We listened to: 1. Eliane Radigue – Opus 17: Number 17 2. Eliane Radigue for Charles Curtis – Naldjorlak (Paris, 2006) 3. Eliane Radigue for Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Robert Ashley – Songs Of Milarepa: Song Of The Path Guides Shout outs: Wall of Sound / Climax Golden Twins: An American Experimental Music Band The live version of the actual first instrumental piece Eliane and the AI https://www.markslutsky.com/archive/something-good-52-what-life-is-less-without/