SOUNDS OF NOW: ÉLIANE RADIGUE ROUNDTABLE

Rhodri Davies, Angharad Davies, Julia Eckhardt, Louise Gray & Dominic Lash

Upper Chapel, Sheffield
Saturday 18 October 2025, 6.15pm

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Musicians Rhodri Davies, Angharad Davies and Dominic Lash are joined by Louise Gray (writer on music and sound art for The Wire) and Julia Eckhardt (longtime Radigue collaborator and author of Éliane Radigue – Intermediary Spaces/Espaces intermédiaires) for this panel discussion exploring the unique practice and sound world of the pioneering French composer, Éliane Radigue. 

Part of: OCCAM OCEAN: THE MUSIC OF ÉLIANE RADIGUE 

“Radigue writes awesomely gradual music that is always on the move… It is music that flowers in some enchanted hinterland where sounds are sparse and mercurial, spiritual and grounded, narrative and abstract… she is always on the hunt for sound within sound – a realm of partials, harmonics, and subharmonics… the intangible cloud that makes up that note’s aura.”
Kate Molleson 

The French composer Éliane Radigue, now 93 years old, has dedicated the last quarter of a century to crafting her extraordinary, subtle and luminescent compositions for acoustic instruments. Each titled ‘Occam’ (after ‘Occam’s razor’, the idea that the simplest solution is often the best), these warm and generous works explore the essence of an instrument’s sound in gradually unfolding, richly present textures.  

For ‘Occam Ocean’, Music in the Round has curated a series of special events bringing together some of Radigue’s closest collaborators for two days of music and talks, offering a rare, immersive experience of this composer’s singular sound world. 

Presented in partnership with The University of Sheffield.  

About the Artists

Rhodri Davies

Rhodri Davies is a harp player working within the field of free improvisation. He was one of the most prominent members of the London reductionist school of improvised music that was active in the late 1990s and early 2000s and which has been described as being “extremely influential over the last decade”.

Davies is also active in the field of contemporary composition where he has commissioned new works for the harp from leading avant-garde composers. He has also worked as an orchestral player and as a session musician for Charlotte Church and Cinematic Orchestra amongst others. He has appeared on over 60 commercially available recordings.

He has created a number of installations and performances which involve destroying or disassembling the harp. In 2010 he was longlisted for the Northern Arts Prize and in 2012 he received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award.

Angharad Davies

Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist based in London working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance.

Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation. Find out more.