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Doctoral Colloquium: Emanuelle Majeau-Bettez

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Through Time and Space: 脡liane Radigue鈥檚 Relationship to Sound听

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ABSTRACT:

Composer 脡liane Radigue is the only French composer of her generation who is regularly cited as a pioneer of synthesizer-based electronic music. Over the six decades of her career, Radigue has been dedicated to building a body of work in which natural microbeats between frequencies replace rhythmic, or other more traditional forms of, sound organization. A significant component of my dissertation consists in documenting the electronic phase of Radigue鈥檚 career as well as her more recent collaborations with instrumentalists. However, in this presentation I show how, in my research, the record of Radigue鈥檚 life as a composer is part of a larger argument that reconsiders canonical events in the history of contemporary music through Radigue鈥檚 perspective. Analyzing the history of contemporary music through the frame offered by Radigue鈥檚 six-decade-long career offers many advantages. First, it is an opportunity to highlight the very different meanings that the notion of 鈥渃omposer鈥� has taken on since the post-World War II era and, most importantly, it calls for an analysis of these conceptual shifts in terms of the gender conventions of the time. Second, I argue that Radigue鈥檚 sound, and particularly the listening mode embedded within her compositional method, continues to open a space that enables different artistic approaches.听听

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BIOGRAPHY:

Emanuelle Majeau-Bettez is a PhD candidate in Musicology听with option in Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies at听平特五不中, where she is supervised by David Brackett.听Her research focuses on the electronic phase of 脡liane Radigue's career as well as on the composer's present collaborations with instrumentalists. Among other publications, Emanuelle is the author of the thematic dossier on 脡liane Radigue, published on the Ircam's documentation database B.R.A.H.M.S. She is a member of the editorial board of听Circuit, musiques contemporaines听and she participates in the MICA (Musical Improvisation and Collective Action, Ircam) and ACTOR (Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration) research projects.听

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