Eliane Radigue is a French electronic music composer whose work, since the early 1970s, has been almost exclusively created on a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape. She works with electronic sounds on tape to create an ambience within which sound seems to move in a continual flow around the listener. Her music has been described as "infinitely discreet ... next to which all other music seems to be tugging at one's sleeve for attention." -- Michel Chion in "Les Musiques Electroacoustiques"

Radigue was born in Paris in 1932. She studied electroacoustic music techniques at the "Studio d'essai" of the RTF under Pierre Shaeffer and Pierre Henry (1957-58). Married to the artist, Arman, she devoted ten years to the education of three children, deepening classical music studies and instrumental practice on the harp and piano at the same time. In 1967-68 she worked again with Pierre Henry, as his assistant at the Studio Apsome.

She worked for a year at the New York University School of the Arts in 1970-71, where her music attracted considerable attention for its sensitive, dappled purity. In 1973 she was in residence at the electronic music studios of the University of Iowa and California Institute of the Arts.

In 1975, Radigue became a disciple of Tibetan Buddhism. When she took up her career again in 1979, she continued to work with the Arp synthesizer, which has become her signature. She composed "Triptych" for the Ballet Théâtre de Nancy (choreography by Douglas Dunn), "Adnos II" & "Adnos III," and began the large-scale cycle of works based on the life of the 11th century Tibetan master, Milarepa. She received a "bourse à la creation" in 1984 from the French Government to compose "Songs of Milarepa," and a "Commande de l'état" in 1986 to compose "Jetsun Mila."

She dedicated much of the 1980s to a three-hour work, the "Trilogie de la Mort," which was as heavily influenced by the Tibetan Book of the Dead and her meditation practice as by the death of her teacher, Pao Rinpoche and of her son.

Radigue's music has been performed throughout Europe and the United States. She lives in Paris, where she continues to compose electronic music and to study the teachings of the Tibetan lamas.