Suzanne Ciani

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Suzanne Ciani (b. 1946) is a pioneer in electronic music and one of the few women to blaze a trail in the genre. She received classical music training at Wellesley College and obtained her M.A. in music in 1970 at University of California, Berkeley where she met and was influenced by the idiosyncratic synthesizer designer Don Buchla.

In 1974 she formed her own company, Ciani/Musica, and, using a Buchla Analog Modular Synthesizer, began scoring television commercials for Coca-Cola, Merrill Lynch, AT&T and General Electric. Besides music, her specialty was reproducing sound effects on the synthesizer that recording engineers had found difficult to record properly; if you heard a bottle of Coke being opened and poured on the radio or on television during the late '70s, you were probably hearing Ciani's work. Such was the demand for her services that at one point she was doing up to fifty sessions a week. Her sound effects also appeared in video games (the pinball game Xenon even featured her voice).

In 1977, Ciani provided the sound effects for Meco's disco version of the Star Wars soundtrack, which was certified platinum. Ciani scored the Lily Tomlin movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman and a 1986 documentary about Mother Teresa, as well the TV daytime serial ("soap opera") One Life to Live. She also composed the Columbia Pictures and Columbia Pictures Television theme jingles.

In 1982 she began to record albums in the New Age genre, characterized by a mix of electronic and traditional instruments. Two of her albums, 1988's Neverland and 1994's Dream Suite, were nominated for Grammy awards. She considers herself to be a classical music composer and her more recent albums have emphasized the piano.

  • Seven Waves - 1982
  • The Velocity Of Love - 1985
  • Neverland - 1988
  • History Of My Heart - 1989
  • Pianissimo - 1990
  • Hotel Luna - 1991
  • The Private Music Of - 1992
  • Dream Suite - 1994
  • Pianissimo II - 1996
  • A Very Green Christmas - 1997
  • Suzanne Ciani And The Wave Live! - 1997
  • Turning - 1999
  • Pianissimo III - 2001
  • Meditations for Dreams, Relaxation, and Sleep - 2002
  • Pure Romance - 2003
  • Silver Ship - 2005

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../s/u/z/Suzanne_Ciani_2bf0.html"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.