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THE MELANCHOLIA OF RADIGUEAN AESTHETICS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2025

Michelle Helene Mackenzie
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Abstract

This article undertakes a Kleinian analysis of the early feedback works of Éliane Radigue. By reading the melancholic nature of these works – their fixation on the ‘lost objects’ of recorded sound, and the self-recursivity of their feedback techniques – as sonically generative rather than merely mournful, I argue that Radigue's feedback works transcend the signifying order of much elegiac music, offering a distinct intervention and epistemology within the history of musique concrète, electronic music and the sonic arts.

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Tempo , Volume 79 , Issue 311 , January 2025 , pp. 5 - 13
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press

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