Suzanne Ciani (Boston, 4 luglio 1946)
Periferia di Boston, 1952. La madre di Suzanne Ciani porta a casa una collezione di dischi di musica classica: Bach, Mozart e Beethoven la impressionarono talmente che decide di imparare a suonare il piano. Durante una gita al MIT promossa dal Wellesley College dove studiava composizione, un professore le mostra i suoi tentativi di riprodurre il suono del violino con l'uso di un computer. Il piccolo bit emesso dalla scatola Iron made her understand that the machines could emit music. After graduating, Suzanne moved to the University of Berkeley that the time was completely enveloped in the aura of the counterculture:
"I found myself in the middle of complete revolution. You know, I know I'm playing Chopin in the music building, a rock throught as the window-and-Suddenly life litterally Was Never The Same. The whole hippie thing .... I mean, I Never Wore shoes, hair down to my waist, we ate brown rice and soybeans, I hitchhiliked to school. It was very Counterculture, "Suzanne
at Mills College found that they could find a couple of synthesizers, including a Buchla, who were not often used, was then able to devote many hours of his electronics. In the same period thanks to Harold Paris gets a job in the shop of Don Buchla, a company involved in business although he was in fact outside the system. To start welding Buchla synthesizers, the only way to afford its modular instrumentation. The Buchla 200 will be the tool that will accompany "The Woman who Could make Any sound" for many years.
In 1974 he moved to New York where he knocks on the doors of Soho Recording Studio Glass Philippe offered to teach the teacher, who politely refused, applications Buchla. Then creates his own company, Ciani / Musica, which specializes in music and sound effects for commercials and video games: these are the soundtracks of the commercials for American Express, General Electric, Atari, Fanta, Sprite and Coca-Cola (remember the sound of the can is opened?). His house had no furniture in New York, only a Buchla sparkling and bright in the middle of the room.
In order to promote new technologies in music, he founded the Electronic Center for New Music, which failed soon due to lack of confidence by investors in synthesizers. Autoproduce then his first album, Seven Waves, which reached number one in Japan. His second album, The Velocity of Love, will be released for RCA in 1986.
In 1987 he signed with Private Music, with which it comes Neverland ottienela Grammy Award nominations the following year.
Dpoo a trip to Italy in 1989, Suzanne has created a new album with some instrumental tracks. This too was nominated for a Grammy Award.
In 1994 he founded the Seventh Wave by which released the album Dream Suite. In addition to the various production companies, Suzanne Ciani has collaborators in the drafting of soundtracks for films such as The Incredible Shrinking Woman by Joel Schumacher.
"Men always something HAD to test .... Could you tell the guys where to EQ the snare or the foot, or where to boost the mid-range for the trumpet-you They HAD to know the answers "Suzanne Ciani
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