Forum From the Archives: Electronic Music Composer Suzanne Ciani Celebrates Groundbreaking Career

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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If you were watching TV in the 1980s you’re probably familiar with the sounds of electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani, whose synthesizer compositions became the sonic logos for Coca-Cola, Atari, GE, PBS and dozens of other brands. Ciani has gone on to cultivate new audiences through her quadraphonic concerts that she produces using an updated version of the same synthesizer that she played as a student at UC Berkeley in the late-1960s, the Buchla 200E. We’ll talk with Ciani about her career, how California inspires her and hear excerpts from her upcoming concert series that celebrates the 40th anniversary of her breakthrough album “Seven Waves.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.9	Coming up on forum, if you were watching TV in the 80s, you probably heard Suzanne Chani's
0:54.5	work. The music pioneer's synthesizer compositions became the logos for Coca-Cola, GE, PBS,
1:00.9	and dozens of other brands. Today, Chani's music is cultivating new audiences. We'll listen back to
1:06.4	my February conversation with Chani about the potential she saw in a late 1960s, Berkeley-invented
1:12.4	synthesizer known as a Bucla, and how she turned it from knobs and wires into a trailblazing
1:17.2	five-decade music career. Chani will also be performing a KQED in San Francisco, co-presented
1:22.5	by Noise Pop on Thursday, August 29th, tickets are available now.
1:38.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. She's been called a synth hero, a sonic sculptor, diva of the diode.
1:51.4	But if you're not familiar with Suzanne Chani's Velocity of Love or her other electronic music compositions,
1:57.6	you probably know her sonic logos, especially if you were watching commercials in the late
2:02.7	70s or early 80s.
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