“No, thank you. No one is interested in my work”—so replied French electronic music pioneer Éliane Radigue to a request from Ian Nagoski in 1998 for an interview. It may have seemed that way to Radigue at the time, but today the situation is quite different. Regarded as one of the founding figures of electronic music, Radigue is known for her patient, evolving pieces that blur the boundaries between performance and composition. Still, Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue is the first English anthology dedicated solely to Radigue’s work, focusing mostly on her early tape pieces but also touching on her later collaborative compositions for live performers on un-amplified instruments. Somewhere between annotated bibliography and edited collection, Alien Roots includes archival documents like letters and sketches alongside contemporary reviews of her work and recent analyses by interdisciplinary scholars. The result is a book not unlike Radigue’s compositions themselves, an open-ended exploration that requires a bit of effort from the reader. Alien Roots offers points of departure for understanding Radigue’s work, rather than a clean-cut, definitive narrative.