http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4593D44Lid4
In this vintage video (from 1980), electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani explains how synthesizers work.
Ciani founded her own company, Ciani/Musica, in 1974 and was soon creating scores, audio effects and ‘sound signatures’ for Coca-Cola, AT&T, GE and others. In the 80s, Ciani developed a career as a new age recording artist. The video captures one of Ciani’s many television appearances from the early stage of her career.
From the first season of the Children’s Television Workshop series “3-2-1 Contact”.
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You obviously know nothing about her. She is a classically trained pianist, composer and electronic musician. Her solo piano CD’s are music above and beyond anything you are capable of understanding with you drug rotted brain.
The embed doesn’t work, so here’s the link for those looking
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4593D44Lid4
Calm down, buddy. My comment was in jest.
well shes clearly not on drgs so i dont know what was supposed to make your comment funny… from what i can tell you were just being dismissive, probably because she’s a woman. oh HAHA
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horses walk in a trot mostly
that was said in jest
almost exclusively
What about my comment was over excited? Have a vagina thanks, with your attitude I can tell you don’t.
Also, defending a woman doesn’t make me humourless or frigid… Get a new line.
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the music is the drug! 😀
This and Doctor Wizard are my earliest synth sound memories
Ooops. I combined Dr Who and Mister Wizard. DERP.
One of the amazing female synth pioneers -her work was everywhere in the 70s!
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Watching that on YouTube I found another video of Suzanne Ciani making music for a pinball machine, so maybe this proves her to be the first composer for games:
http://youtu.be/yC8O5HPvfsg
Wow! I’d like to buy that track!
Thank you for posting this!
It’s really nice to see people talking with excitement about music! Actually enjoying it, sharing it, explaining it! Thank you for posting this!
super awesome lady, she was way ahead of her time
magic!
Wonderful explanation of basic sound and synthesis ~ aimed at kids, yeah, but a lot of adult musicians I know could benefit from this! 🙂
Hey, those of you who are interested, theres an article on her in this month’s Electronic Sound e-magazine (http://electronicsound.co.uk).
…or go direct to her website and check out her 15 albums, 200 songs and 5 volumes of sheet music.