Une Idée du Temps - Eliane Radigue

‘Une idée du temps’ pays homage to Éliane Radigue and her unrivalled contribution to the electronic music genre over the past century. At 92 years old, she paved the way for independent producers. Armed only with a bold vision and her synthesiser – an ARP 2500 now housed in INA-GRM – which she affectionately refers to as her “partner”, Éliane Radigue created a distinctive sound that draws on her unique sense of acoustics, time and duration.

'Une idée du temps' is the first book dedicated to Éliane Radigue’s photographic archives, featuring a series of portraits from over the years (including many for the first time) alongside images of her beloved Arp 2500, with an introduction by Joseph Ghosn in English and French. The book is beautifully printed and double bound with a foldout two-sided poster. The photographs included were taken between 1955 and 1972.

Une idée du temps pays homage to Éliane Radigue and her unrivalled contribution to the electronic music over the past century. At 92 years old, she's paved the way for independent producers. Armed only with a bold vision and her synthesiser – an ARP 2500 now housed in INA-GRM – which she affectionately refers to as her “partner,” Éliane Radigue created a distinctive sound that draws on her unique sense of acoustics, time and duration.

“In the photos taken of her at different points in her career, Éliane appears as she is: a figure in the middle of the world, imposing her gaze rather than her face. From the photographs of Éliane to her instrument and to us, standing witness to their relationship, flows a vital form of electricity. It reminds us that we do what we do because we are incapable of doing anything else. And that we do all this to capture the furtive, the unforeseeable, the moments of daring, just before the doors close and time passes between us. Éliane's music, I'm convinced, sketches the passage of time, of waiting, of waiting for the other, of reverberating resilience and, ultimately, of what is always found, like an unalterable bond, within eternity."

Joseph Ghosn, 2024

First edition of 300 copies