SUBOTNICK: Suzanne Ciani on Morton Subotnick

Electronic / New Age composer Suzanne Ciani talks about Morton Subotnick and their connection with the Buchla modular synthesizer. Excerpts from an interview for the film SUBOTNICK, now fundraising on Indiegogo:
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[@dougcl_]

It's great to see Suzanne embracing the 200e. This is indeed an exciting time for electronic music.

[@rasputin1917]

Oh! I know Suzanne Ciani! Met her in 1986 at Vangelis' flat in london! Hi Suzanne! Euri here! I remember you complemented me on my keyboards playing when I sat on vangelis' keys for a laugh. You look great!

[@jakoblaban429]

Love her

[@DJANTONIVS]

I have always felt the same about Electronic Music. It never completed it's full potential. Electronic Music from the start, beginning with Musique Concrete was a quest for a new artform a new music unlike the original form. What derailed Electronic Music prematurely was the advent of polyphony which allowed music to become more melodic and more natural sounding tho those who didn't care much for unfamiliar sounds. The icing on the cake was the advent of drum machine which popularized the form and distorted it into a dance form medium in the late 70s and into our time. That's is not to say those musical forms are bad but people like what's familiar more and therefore this allowed for the original form to decline. Fortunately, music has become too predictable and now people are finally ready to embrace a new artform again. Suzanne and Morton have now become stratified by those who recognize where the artform started.

[@autumnmatthews3179]

What an amazing and lovely lady

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love it!!

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love it!!

[@AlexandreLeroux]

Nice interview. Interesting enough for me to go fund it :-)

[@christoroppolo8742]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👽👽👽🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🐕🐕🔦☠️🤖🤖🤖👏🏻🕺🕺🙏🙏👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻✌🏻🛸🛸🛸love this! Respect! Peace Christo

[@GrootsieTheDog]

I would have to push back on Cainni’s assertion that the keyboard somehow disrupted electronic music’s advancement when it took, in her words, a “left turn”. The technology never took a single “left” turn, it simply evolved, twisting and turning in all sorts of directions, and it continues to evolve. The keyboard synth was the Apple desktop computer of its time. The technology she herself is so excited about, that same technology took a leap and, IMO, made a more refined instrument that allowed your everyday person to create amazing electronic music. If anything, it was the keyboard that allowed electronic music to take root. And when it did take root, it exploded in all sorts of forms and did exactly what Cianni was hoping for - for the synthesizer to revolutionize music. Dance and pop music, new age, Berlin School, Krautrock, rock and progressive rock music, avant- guard music, classical atonal...all made possible by the keyboard synthesizer. I too never loved the idea, especially in the 80s and 90s that synths were only synonymous with keyboards (thanks Keyboard Magazine), but that was true only on the surface.

[@neonvoid]

incredible

[@TheMilford]

I like her early 80s period with keyboards married with electronics...

[@NickHchaos]

"The whole thing was hijacked"

[@marcogentile7292]

👏👏👏💕

[@Seekthetruth3000]

I love keyboards.

[@sonicretard4537]

yup

[@FrancisMaxino]

You know it's real electronic music when it goes warble weeble wooble wooble, warble weeble wooble wooble...

[@Pamaracas]

Will the documentary ever be available to buy on DVD?

[@steveslivka]

Where Oh Where is this movie?

[@conjured_up_skeletons6178]

I gotta say I love her solo piano stuff over the hippie synth stuff.