Tone Transmissions: Aura Satz & Sarah Shin on Éliane Radigue
Tone Transmissions is a listening session led by Aura Satz, reflecting on the life and work of influential electronic composer Éliane Radigue (1932–2026).
Doors: 12.45pm
| Dates | Sat 28 Mar 2026 |
| Times | 1pm - 2pm |
| Space | River Rooms, New Wing |
| Price | Free |
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In this session for Assembly 2026, artist Aura Satz shares projects made in collaboration with the late minimalist pioneer, best known for her meditative electronic drone compositions produced on the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer. Satz is joined by publisher, writer, and curator Sarah Shin to reflect on Radigue’s philosophies and approaches to score, listening, and musical communication.
Satz draws on two works created with Radigue and collaborating musicians Rhodri Davies and Julia Eckhardt: Tone Transmissions, a sound work addressing Radigue’s shift from electronic music to later acoustic works and the transmission of music through conversation, mental images, and non-notational scores; and Occam Delta XX, a trio for film, harp, and viola developed through Radigue’s oral “living score” process, in which Satz’s film participates directly in the logic of the composition.
Header image: Tone Transmissions, Aura Satz, 2020
Biographies
Aura Satz
Aura Satz (b. 1974, Barcelona) is a London-based artist based who works with film, sound, performance and sculpture. Her works are made in conversation, using dialogue as both method and subject matter. Satz has made several film portraits of listening and compositional practices as well as works centred on sound technology and unusual notation systems. ‘Preemptive Listening’ (2024), her documentary feature on sirens and emergency listening, was made with support from an artist’s residencies at Walker Arts Centre and EMPAC, and funded by an AHRC fellowship hosted at the RCA. The world premiere was at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, the UK premiere at Tate Modern, and the European premiere at CPH Dox in Copenhagen, where it won the NEW:VISION award.
She has performed, exhibited and screened her work internationally, including Tate Modern, BFI Southbank, Hayward Gallery, Sydney Biennale, NTT InterCommunication Center Tokyo, High Line Art NY, the Rotterdam Film Festival, MoMA NY, Sharjah Art Foundation, Kadist San Francisco, Onassis Stegi, and Sonic Acts. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection; the Hayward Gallery project space; John Hansard Gallery; George Eastman Museum; Dallas Contemporary; ARTIUM, Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo; and Kunstnernes Hus.
Sarah Shin
Sarah Shin works with transformation, dreams, myth and poetic cosmologies. She engages expansive, interdisciplinary ways of knowing through writing, research, publishing, curation and performance.