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381:, Ciani recounted that she and several other employees were keen to learn more about using the synthesizer, so she approached Ed Buchla and asked if he would conduct tutorial sessions for them. Buchla initially agreed, but at the end of the first class he took Ciani aside and declared "We've decided that we don't want women in the class," to which the horrified Ciani retorted, "But I'm the only woman in the class!"
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742:, a live album documenting her first solo performance on a Buchla synthesizer in 40 years. The show took place at Gray Area in San Francisco on March 5, 2016, presented in four channel quadraphonic sound. A recording of this performance was one of the first quadraphonic LP vinyl releases in over 30 years and used an encoding process based on the
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system. Inspired by the Buchla 227 quad output module, the $ 227 release was a very limited edition of only 227 numbered, 45 rpm, 180g quadraphonic vinyl discs sold. The box also included an enamel pin based on the album cover, plus a custom quadraphonic hardware decoder made in collaboration with
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to earn enough money for a Buchla synthesizer of her own, the Buchla 200. There she "Sat and soldered joints and drilled holes for three dollars an hour. When the synthesizers were finished, tested and shipped off, I felt as though I were losing children". In a 2019 interview with
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being opened and poured was one of Ciani's most widely recognized works and was used in radio and television commercials in the late 1970s. She is also responsible for "logo" sounds pertaining to
Energizer and ABC. Such was the demand for her services, that at one point she was doing up to 10
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for her work on the game. Ciani then sampled her voice onto a sound chip with the aim of selling it for use in other applications, including elevator announcements. The US federal government approached her to design sounds for flight simulators.
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In 1992, Ciani was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer from which she recovered after radiation treatments and surgery. The news prompted her relocation from New York City to
California and she has resided in the coastal community of
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In April 1974, Ciani began a nineteen-year stay in New York City, travelling only with clothes and her Buchla synthesizer. Among her first activities was a solo performance at the Bonino
Gallery in conjunction with the opening of a
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Manhattan, but when she was denied a four-speaker quadraphonic sound setup, she refused to perform. She also spent three years on the venue's renovation, but "that didn't work". At a solo show in April 1975, Ciani learned that
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Her first paid job in composing was in 1969, producing for 10 Macy's
Christmas advertisements. Around this time she worked on sound installations at galleries, exhibitions, and dance performances, composed at
2607:. Ciani talks about the frustrations of marketing electronic musical instruments to a larger audience and how they became limited by adopting the keyboard, believed to be an inappropriate interface.
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won in the 5th Annual
Independent Music Awards for Best New Age Album. Ciani was also an inaugural member of the Independent Music Awards' judging panel to support independent artists.
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In 1994, Ciani founded her own independent record label, Seventh Wave. Her husband became the label's president. All of her subsequent albums have been released on the label.
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had attended and recommended her to a grant. She later wrote that she was "homeless and happy" at this time and moved from the loft of art critic
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2176:"Electronic Music Pioneer; Filmmaker; And Legislator Named Recipients Of Wellesley College's Alumnae Achievement Awards For 2015"
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1504:"Interview: Suzanne Ciani On... Her Buchla Beginnings, Talking Dishwashers and Why No One Got Electronic Music In the '70s"
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introduced a new theme song written and performed by Ciani, who also did scoring for several episodes of the show.
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drum machine, the Buchla 200, Bode Vocoder, Lyricon, Synclavier, Polymoog, and Arp and Eventide Processing.
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Involve Audio to decode two channels of audio from the vinyl disc back to the four-channel recording.
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In 1980, Ciani demonstrated several of her sound effects on national television with an appearance on
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where she received classical music training. She also took evening classes, one of which was at the
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2202:"Wellesley College honors three distinguished alumnae with Achievement Awards"
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2399:"Announcing Suzanne Ciani as the Recipient of the 2017 Moog Innovation Award"
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2100:"Making sounds with Suzanne Ciani, America's first female synth hero"
1996:"Meet Suzanne Ciani, Creator of Coke's 'Pop 'n Pour' Audio Signature"
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2429:"Analog synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani reflects on her life in waves"
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1650:"Original Creators: The "Diva of Electronic Music" Suzanne Ciani"
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2554:"1969 Suzanne Ciani LP Flowers Of Evil gets first vinyl release"
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2329:"Suzanne Ciani's Early Works:Seven Waves and Velocity of Love"
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2454:"Suzanne Ciani Masters "LIVE Quadraphonic" Vinyl at Bernie's"
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2529:"Analog Surround-Sound Is Reborn on a New Quadraphonic LP"
2074:"Suzanne Ciani and the Subliminal Property of Being Human"
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Improvisation on Four Sequences at Festival Antigel (2020)
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commercial and work on a proposed "negative vocoder" with
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2307:"Reality of Dreams - An interview with Suzanne Ciani"
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Fame: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture
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1973:"Donato Dozzy Speaks to Synth Pioneer Suzanne Ciani"
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A Conversation with Suzanne Ciani Podcast Interview
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2379:"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / Suzanne Ciani: Sunergy"
2200:Chen, Cynthia; Rathod, Sara (15 February 2015).
2151:"Suzanne Ciani on Two Television Programs, 1980"
1019:A Sonic Womb: Live Buchla performance at Lapsus
847:National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
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2342:Independent Music Awards – 5th Annual Winners
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1449:"Interview with Suzanne Ciani, January 2000"
2505:"The Unlikely Return of Quadraphonic Vinyl"
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1534:"Spotlight On: Synth Pioneer Suzanne Ciani"
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1760:"Modular Love: Suzanne Ciani Interviewed"
1708:"Suzanne Ciani: Waltzing with the Buchla"
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2271:"Suzanne Ciani Has Designs on Music"
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1583:"Suzanne Ciani's Marvelous Journey"
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2224:db: The Sound Engineering Magazine
1971:Dozzy, Donato (17 February 2015).
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286:From 1964 to 1968, Ciani studied
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1948:Bolton, Naomi (9 January 2018).
1830:"Outsight Radio Hours interview"
1412:Hutchinson, Kate (20 May 2017).
1279:Suzanne Ciani and The Wave Live!
1010:Live Buchla at Machines in Music
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259:. She has been nominated for a
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1924:. Red Bull Music Academy Daily
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1385:List of ambient music artists
955:"Help, Help, The Globolinks!"
738:In June 2018, Ciani released
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2026:Doran, John (5 April 2012).
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1710:. Strange Sounds from Beyond
1532:Maiolo, Alex (18 May 2016).
1307:Suzanne Ciani: New Age Piano
1291:Galapagos: A Musical Odyssey
992:Logo Presentation Reels 1985
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1332:The Best of Suzanne Ciani
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1952:. Vintage Synth Explorer
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877:Voices of Packaged Souls
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1149:Sons of the Universe
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889:The Velocity of Love
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426:Vladimir Ussachevsky
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2556:. The Vinyl Factory
2509:ProSoundNetwork.com
2155:Wearethemutants.com
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901:History of My Heart
612:Ciani's 1986 album
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1224:Steven Kindler –
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1172:Spectral Mornings
1087:Starting All Over
1004:LIVE Quadraphonic
782:Awards and honors
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1372:: The Legacy
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141:Years active
56:June 4, 1946
2626:1946 births
2208:15 December
2033:The Quietus
1979:15 December
1880:14 February
1811:15 December
1585:. EMusician
1339:Film scores
1311:Hal Leonard
1249:Jane Weaver
1200:Goldstar –
1064:Appearances
980:Live albums
943:Silver Ship
919:Dream Suite
883:Seven Waves
860:Discography
840:Silver Ship
813:Dream Suite
690:Silver Ship
666:Dream Suite
639:, in 1992.
618:RCA Records
580:Seven Waves
563:Lily Tomlin
556:Harald Bode
359:Max Mathews
308:Glenn Gould
126:Synthesizer
120:Instruments
95:Occupations
86:avant-garde
2620:Categories
2538:2018-06-08
2514:2018-06-08
2487:2018-06-08
2463:2018-06-08
2438:7 December
2407:Moog Music
2313:7 December
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2083:9 December
2039:20 January
2002:7 December
1956:6 December
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1423:4 December
1391:References
1231:Various –
1207:Various –
1138:Spyro Gyra
1115:Art Farmer
913:Hotel Luna
907:Pianissimo
809:Hotel Luna
718:RVNG Intl.
651:soap opera
644:Hotel Luna
633:Pianissimo
486:soundtrack
379:Lost Notes
327:Don Buchla
294:in nearby
271:Early life
76:Electronic
52:1946-06-04
2560:12 August
2458:EMusician
2384:Pitchfork
895:Neverland
805:Neverland
799:Nominee,
756:Élévation
596:Prophet 5
461:Coca-Cola
445:Coca-Cola
304:Ilse Bing
296:Wellesley
129:keyboards
2403:MoogFest
2363:Archived
2345:Archived
2309:. GoHerp
2279:Archived
1835:29 April
1536:. Reverb
1379:See also
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1179:Fuse One
1147:Alien –
829:Keyboard
819:(1997),
815:(1996),
811:(1991),
807:(1988),
733:Moogfest
565:'s film
453:AT&T
343:Bob Moog
245:composer
237:musician
190:.sevwave
157:Finnadar
104:composer
101:Musician
1219:La Cuna
1132:Feel It
931:Turning
821:Turning
775:since.
773:Bolinas
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