this is incredible. I've been a fan of electronic music for years and I'm baffled as to why I've never heard of her before. She is clearly a founding mother of electronic music and every single dj stands on her shoulders. So underrated and under-appreciated. She should be as famous as Jean-Michel Jarre.
Its either sexism or exactly the oppisite, she was shy and some of the males like jarre wernt ...🤷♂️ but also she did corperate work making sounds for companies ? Maybe she just wasnt in the music scene as much ?
I have no idea how I stumbled upon her- I've been following wendy carlos for decades and you'd think Suzanne would be mentioned in the same breath! So glad to have her work in my life.
@@darkjusticemedia5621 how do you possibly find a way to bring sexism into this, it’s an incredibly niche genre that has very little coverage of course most people wouldn’t have known about her
Her list of achievements throughout the 1980s and 1990s is astonishing: creator of the awesome and unintentionally lewd voices and sound effects in Xenon, one of the grandest of 1980s pinball games (played all the time in my college days in Allentown PA); composed "The Velocity of Love", the quintessential "pop" song of 80's New Age Radio; nominated for Best New Age album five times between 1988 and 2000; and creator of dozens of electronic commercial sounds and sound effects you've heard and take for granted. Amazing woman, quite an understated and almost totally neglected pioneer of what we now call electronica. She should be better known.
She’s probably the best artist using one. She’s had access to them since the 70s. Those things are way too expensive for most people, so listening to her is the best way for me to really hear what those machines can do.
Thank you, Los Angeles Public Library, and Suzanne, for sharing a great performance and more. Contrary to comments below, I think Suzanne's return to modular synthesis helps bridge a gap between generations, and turns a whole new audience on to modular synths and quad sound. No need for cynicism here. It's a small, small pond that modular synthesists swim in - there is no need to pee in it. It will always be a tiny corner of musical expression that is enjoyed by relatively few, and there is nothing wrong with that, nor giving adoration where it is due, no matter how "deep" your knowledge of an artist or their music goes. a 6-y/o girl or boy who happened to be at the library seeing this for the first time might get a spark of inspiration that could last a lifetime, and have no prior knowledge of Suzanne or her extensive library. That doesn't negate the experience she shared with this young person, or anyone in the audience that day, and now on RUclips for all to enjoy. Thanks again to all, lovely performance!
There is nothing inherently wrong or bad about modular or any synthesizers. But of tweaking knobs and choosing different sequenced ‘patterns’ constitutes a performance, then there isn’t a necessary skill to this performance. I love electronica, progressive music......but perhaps, ‘your 6 year old girl or boy with a few minutes of training, could accomplish this “piece of art!”
@@syn707 so what if a kid could do it? what drives your bitterness? is it a specific vision of "art"? is it the fact they might be making money from it? I say, as long as someone's able to express themselves in a way that's interesting to them, then that's good enough for me. If, beyond that, their work is interesting to other people, that's even better! but cynicism kills creativity, sarcasm kills inspiration. By all means, avoid it. It brings nothing to the table. Express your frustration in another way - music, maybe? Some other art? Do not try to tear down what you find unjustified; Build something new instead
@@syn707 You seriously think a child could sculpt all of these individual sounds from raw oscillators? And then arrange them in non-repetitive interesting patterns the create evolution, ebb, and flow? Just because you don't like the content doesn't mean a child could've made it. If you want to hear a live instrument, then go watch those videos. To criticize someone's work and proclaiming it as not art is pretty weak..
@@Serioko First of all, I did not say I did not like it...so put your anger back in your pocket. And I truly believe, there are children, who have never touched a synth, who could, put together some very interesting things... I could never put a limit on the creative spirit of the human being. But it impossible to debate your post because it is filled with anger. You are a perfect "host" for conformity....and having such a militant post, leaves one a sense, that you could never really conduct a mature calm debate....so enjoy your anger...I stopped it at my door!
I could write a novel to this music .. This is more than a song; this is an entire musical LANDSCAPE 🤯 This is an entire Epic MOVIE .. This transports me off of Earth 🌍What an incredible lady ♥️👏👏
Thank you Google algo for making me discover this wonderful woman her creativity reminds me of Pierre Henry (1927-2017) and even karlheinz stockhausen. Plus her voice is so soothing... like Bob Ross'
She wrote that damn song that stayed in my head for almost 40 years. That jingle song from the movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman called Galaxy Glue.
Yeah, the Germans (and the French) were the pioneers in electronic music for sure. This has a more free / improvisational feel to it, definitely more “West Coast” in personality.
Fascinating performance. Fascinating interview. She's been on such a journey and has acquired so many skills and experience with literally everything electronic music related along the way which has culminated in her ability to deliver not only that kind of a sophisticated sonic performance, but also the ability to articulate the depth of understanding of what we know and experience about music today. Brilliant!
Interesting: the giant bass patch, and searing lead sound both come from the Animoog app on her iPad. I can afford that! She is fascinating to watch and the arrangement is beautiful.
Affascinante espressività sonora , grande musicista e ricercatrice , qui sviluppa temi sonori affini alle pioniere della fonologia elettroacustica , come Eliane Radigue, Daphne Oram e Delia Derbyshire
Este es mi hogar, mi patria, música visual no narrativa; esa misma electricidad fluye a través de mis venas. Gracias Suzanne Ciani por tu música y por permitir que veamos cómo lo haces, cómo creas en vivo tantas texturas y sueños.
Incredible performace by Suzanne Ciani .... cant get enough now of her work ... I started listening to one concert and now I am already listening to the 3rd from her ... Dont know if it is her or the Buchla200e who cast a spell on me .. but the performace is great
Quadraphonic audio tracks can readily be upmixed for playback on 5.1 surround sound systems. Low frequencies from all four quadraphonic channels are combined for playback over the 5.1 subwoofer channel. The Q4 left-front and right-front tracks are mapped directly into 5.1 left-center-right channels and the Q4 right-rear and left-rear tracks are sent to the 5.1 surround channels. Such an upmix will preserve all directional sources in the original quadraphonic tracks.
Wonderful as always to see Suzanne Ciani perform. She is a legend and pioneer in electronic music and sound design. Always focused on her music and so inventive and with none of the pretensions seen in many other artists, no dancing to her own music, no strange exaggerated or affected hand movements or weird knob twiddling hand flourishes that others indulge in. Always an inspiration. Amazing technical excellence and musicality
Definitely! My back is the same. I'd never be able to hunch that long. I am a keyboardist and composer as well. I definitely have to sit down when playing or performing
Because this was interesting 50 years ago, maybe, when tehnology was young, but to run random sequences and tweak parametars is not music, my friend. I'm into the elektronic sound design, but in a musical way. This is just nonsence after 50 years of performing.
@@aniokay The Wall killed the band for me (and apparently Pink Floyd too). It bored me when it came out and it bores me now. Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Animals, Piper, Atom Heart Mother, Obscured By Clouds all destroy it.
They've had at least 40 years to figure it out. At the time no Library on earth was showing this kinda thing.. and was looked down upon, and that's not from a google search.
I must say, I'm listening electronic music for 40 years (Kraftwerk, Jarre, Tangerine dream, Klaus Shultze etc.) but I never encountered WOMAN in electronic music. Ms. Ciani is the first and I'm IMPRESSED!!
So you are like me .. Just discovered her ... After all these years listening to real electronic music ... Even though I heard her Name often but never listen to her music.... Absolutly stunned and great !
Laurie Spiegel, Wendy Carlos, Laurie Anderson, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (more current), just to name a few. Lot's of very influential female synthesists. Hard to believe in 40 years you hadn't heard any of them. Just goes to show how the current musical paradigm never showcases innovation made by females. Now's your chance :)
@@Serioko No, I don't listen every peace of shitt, every musician that calls himself an electronic musician. I'm listening only the BEST (Kraftwerk, Jarre etc.). I don't want to bother with every musician that has a synthesizer at home and plays some music. I'm also composer of an electronic music, but that's not mean that everyone must hear for me. Here is some of my music, so you can judge for yourself. soundcloud.com/user-283504795/synthetic-love-345 (just click anywhere on my mail and you will get other songs). Bye! (by the way, with really NO OFFENSE to you, but in my language (I'm from Croatia), Seri Oko means to shitt in the eye... Sorry, but that is truth :)) ))
I love Ciani's work! Btw, to anyone who has been to one of Ciani's live show, I have a question about the experience of the quadraphonic setup. I have been intrigued by the idea of spatial audio, but after some research, I realize there is a divide on whether such spatial music/speaker setup is enjoyable by the audience. For me, I am especially thinking about implementing a similar spatial sound system in my club/venue, in order to truly showcase quadraphonic sound. what do you think of it from your experience with hearing it live?
Haven't been to a show by Ciani, but I have some experiences with spatial audio. I think a quadraphonic setup would be fine in a venue. When having a spatial audio setup with a lot of different channels, that's when it all falls apart in a space like a concert venue or club. Those big systems are generally calculated for "3D" audio on a specific location, most probably the sound engineer's one. When I tried walking around to find the best sounding spot, I noticed the sound varies wildly from place to place, but none of the places I tried had a satisfactory sound. Not to say these systems cannot sound great, I just mean they are better suited for an audience sitting close together in a specific location. So the variation in sound based on position is definitely something to look out for.
I saw Suzanne Ciani last night at EartH in Hackney (London, UK) and was blown away! Truly amazing, mesmerising performance. She is so at one with the Buchla (not surprisingly as she was pretty much there with Don Buchla in the early days) and as Robaire Beckwith (in this thread) said, she is so unpretentious and not in anyway self indulgent - just incredibly skilful. The quad sound system worked really well I thought and is an integral part of her performance on the Buchla. I have experienced quad before, in the dance tent at Roskilde Festival in Denmark, back in the late 90's and it was awesome! So yeah, go for it. Also go and see a Suzanne Ciani performance, you'll be blown away!
Presumably the performance was mixed to 4 channels for the audience. Would that the 2 channels here had been matrix encoded so that those with home theatre equipment could hear that. It’s not is it? (I get the feeling from the way some sounds come and go that it might even just be the front 2 channels & we can’t hear what was being bounced to the rear channels)I know the official release was matrixed 4 channel.
Delia Derbyshire was ripped off by the BBC so badly, i firmly believe she became reclusive because of it's effect on her creative soul. Delias' works are fantastic, groundbreaking and essentially to me are utmost influencial.
Yeah absolutely man. Delia was the the true pioneer. And such a quirky enigmatic person. I would've loved to have met and hung out with her. She has a cult following these days but was largely unknown until the past decade
I've always enjoyed her work. Happy to see her still doing it. What I don't need is the dopey light show. I haven't dropped acid in 50 years, and I'm more likely to have a seizure than be "turned on" by this! Thankfully I can just listen.
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this is incredible. I've been a fan of electronic music for years and I'm baffled as to why I've never heard of her before. She is clearly a founding mother of electronic music and every single dj stands on her shoulders. So underrated and under-appreciated. She should be as famous as Jean-Michel Jarre.
she is the pioneer
Exactly. I had no idea-- and I have one of her albums (Neverland) that I bought in 1995.
Its either sexism or exactly the oppisite, she was shy and some of the males like jarre wernt ...🤷♂️ but also she did corperate work making sounds for companies ? Maybe she just wasnt in the music scene as much ?
I have no idea how I stumbled upon her- I've been following wendy carlos for decades and you'd think Suzanne would be mentioned in the same breath! So glad to have her work in my life.
@@darkjusticemedia5621 how do you possibly find a way to bring sexism into this, it’s an incredibly niche genre that has very little coverage of course most people wouldn’t have known about her
Her list of achievements throughout the 1980s and 1990s is astonishing: creator of the awesome and unintentionally lewd voices and sound effects in Xenon, one of the grandest of 1980s pinball games (played all the time in my college days in Allentown PA); composed "The Velocity of Love", the quintessential "pop" song of 80's New Age Radio; nominated for Best New Age album five times between 1988 and 2000; and creator of dozens of electronic commercial sounds and sound effects you've heard and take for granted. Amazing woman, quite an understated and almost totally neglected pioneer of what we now call electronica. She should be better known.
1:21:42 "in the old days we had a voltage controlled reverb ... we don't have that now"
we do in eurorack ;)
Her music is as classy and beautiful as she is. I'm so glad she came back to the Buchla.
She’s probably the best artist using one. She’s had access to them since the 70s. Those things are way too expensive for most people, so listening to her is the best way for me to really hear what those machines can do.
Thank you, Los Angeles Public Library, and Suzanne, for sharing a great performance and more. Contrary to comments below, I think Suzanne's return to modular synthesis helps bridge a gap between generations, and turns a whole new audience on to modular synths and quad sound. No need for cynicism here. It's a small, small pond that modular synthesists swim in - there is no need to pee in it. It will always be a tiny corner of musical expression that is enjoyed by relatively few, and there is nothing wrong with that, nor giving adoration where it is due, no matter how "deep" your knowledge of an artist or their music goes. a 6-y/o girl or boy who happened to be at the library seeing this for the first time might get a spark of inspiration that could last a lifetime, and have no prior knowledge of Suzanne or her extensive library. That doesn't negate the experience she shared with this young person, or anyone in the audience that day, and now on RUclips for all to enjoy.
Thanks again to all, lovely performance!
Modular Synthesis is the new Casio. Which means industry and all that entails (sales).
There is nothing inherently wrong or bad about modular or any synthesizers.
But of tweaking knobs and choosing different sequenced ‘patterns’ constitutes a performance, then there isn’t a necessary skill to this performance.
I love electronica, progressive music......but perhaps, ‘your 6 year old girl or boy with a few minutes of training, could accomplish this “piece of art!”
@@syn707 so what if a kid could do it? what drives your bitterness? is it a specific vision of "art"? is it the fact they might be making money from it? I say, as long as someone's able to express themselves in a way that's interesting to them, then that's good enough for me. If, beyond that, their work is interesting to other people, that's even better!
but cynicism kills creativity, sarcasm kills inspiration. By all means, avoid it. It brings nothing to the table.
Express your frustration in another way - music, maybe? Some other art? Do not try to tear down what you find unjustified; Build something new instead
@@syn707 You seriously think a child could sculpt all of these individual sounds from raw oscillators? And then arrange them in non-repetitive interesting patterns the create evolution, ebb, and flow? Just because you don't like the content doesn't mean a child could've made it. If you want to hear a live instrument, then go watch those videos. To criticize someone's work and proclaiming it as not art is pretty weak..
@@Serioko First of all, I did not say I did not like it...so put your anger back in your pocket.
And I truly believe, there are children, who have never touched a synth, who could, put together some very interesting things...
I could never put a limit on the creative spirit of the human being.
But it impossible to debate your post because it is filled with anger.
You are a perfect "host" for conformity....and having such a militant post, leaves one a sense, that you could never really conduct a mature calm debate....so enjoy your anger...I stopped it at my door!
I could write a novel to this music .. This is more than a song; this is an entire musical LANDSCAPE 🤯 This is an entire Epic MOVIE .. This transports me off of Earth 🌍What an incredible lady ♥️👏👏
Performance starts around 6:20
Thanks
DANKE
Listen to her music daily. An original synth adopter and pioneer!
Wow this performance makes me feel like I'm witnessing some performance happening in a mall in 1977. So cool.
Thank you Google algo for making me discover this wonderful woman her creativity reminds me of Pierre Henry (1927-2017) and even karlheinz stockhausen. Plus her voice is so soothing... like Bob Ross'
One of the G.O.A.T.S showing all the hipster kids how it's done.
She wrote that damn song that stayed in my head for almost 40 years. That jingle song from the movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman called Galaxy Glue.
thanks for yout comment - made me laugh and discover a catchy song
Totally awesome! This, friends and foes, is REAL artistry!
Just a bit surprised (pleasantly) Suzanne is playing what is essentially Berlin-School. Hope she records this in a studio and releases it.
Yeah, the Germans (and the French) were the pioneers in electronic music for sure. This has a more free / improvisational feel to it, definitely more “West Coast” in personality.
She’s a great artist, but underrated. I remember having a crush on her for weeks after she appeared on Letterman.
Forgot about her Letterman appearance (thank you, Kevin)...
She was adorable in that appearance!
Letterman was the first place I saw her. She’s still got it… ❤️
Yes I remember with that Profit 5 synth. Wow, to explore and explain with enthusiasm like her? Priceless
Know how you feel. . . . .as I've ONLY just seen her on Letterman.
Simply an amazing artist and creator. Her enthusiasm contagious.
Fascinating performance. Fascinating interview. She's been on such a journey and has acquired so many skills and experience with literally everything electronic music related along the way which has culminated in her ability to deliver not only that kind of a sophisticated sonic performance, but also the ability to articulate the depth of understanding of what we know and experience about music today. Brilliant!
EPIC! This is absolute gold! Genius at Work! A double LP or CD will work.
It's the coolest thing I've ever heard. If I could listen to it live I'm sure my mind would be blown.
I just experienced a rollercoaster of emotions listening and watching this outsatnding performance.
Great inception into quadro-sound experience ! What a great artist MS Ciani is! Impressive! And the interview such a joy!
I love noodle techno! the soundscapes created by Suzanne with her modular synth is awesome.
Interesting: the giant bass patch, and searing lead sound both come from the Animoog app on her iPad. I can afford that!
She is fascinating to watch and the arrangement is beautiful.
I just experienced this artist for the very first time... absolutely amazing!
Love her work, specially ‘Hotel Luna’. Beautiful record.
SHE IS SYSTEMIC BEAUTY
Absolutely amazing performance. I would love to see her play live.
the live is pure love
This simply sounds beautiful.
Affascinante espressività sonora , grande musicista e ricercatrice , qui sviluppa temi sonori affini alle pioniere della fonologia elettroacustica , come Eliane Radigue, Daphne Oram e Delia Derbyshire
I’m really happy to know I can get my parking validated!
She is simply... the best! The best!
Suzanne, take your vocals and add them to your music that you create. You're amazing.
YES! I imagine that it would sound something like Jenny Hval - Lions, but more dreamy and comfortable
Este es mi hogar, mi patria, música visual no narrativa; esa misma electricidad fluye a través de mis venas. Gracias Suzanne Ciani por tu música y por permitir que veamos cómo lo haces, cómo creas en vivo tantas texturas y sueños.
thankful ive come across this, you're an genius synthesist
Incredible performace by Suzanne Ciani .... cant get enough now of her work ... I started listening to one concert and now I am already listening to the 3rd from her ... Dont know if it is her or the Buchla200e who cast a spell on me .. but the performace is great
This is awesome!!!! This is THE Suzanne Ciani, people.
Amazing sound !! !! 🤍🤍✨✨👌👌🎧🎧
Suzanne Ciani is so good :)
Really nice. She seems like fun to play with.
Quadraphonic audio tracks can readily be upmixed for playback on 5.1 surround sound systems. Low frequencies from all four quadraphonic channels are combined for playback over the 5.1 subwoofer channel. The Q4 left-front and right-front tracks are mapped directly into 5.1 left-center-right channels and the Q4 right-rear and left-rear tracks are sent to the 5.1 surround channels. Such an upmix will preserve all directional sources in the original quadraphonic tracks.
How can I learn more about this?
Wow. What a force of Nature 🤩
My love for trance originated from her😊👍i knew her work on xenon in past but had to idea she dabbed into electronic music til now!🎉🎉
So GREAT!
Talento puro y su voz siempre me enamoro
Wonderful as always to see Suzanne Ciani perform. She is a legend and pioneer in electronic music and sound design. Always focused on her music and so inventive and with none of the pretensions seen in many other artists, no dancing to her own music, no strange exaggerated or affected hand movements or weird knob twiddling hand flourishes that others indulge in. Always an inspiration. Amazing technical excellence and musicality
She does have a sparkly top though. Could that be a step too far?
Awesome!!!
Glad she is getting more prominence. Would love to see her perform love.
Thank You
I like Susan's albums but I think she excels at live performance and improvisation.
Awesome.
Just perfect
Suzanne TE AMO
Legendary
Excellent❤
simple and brilliant ... happy to hear it
this sound alchemist's journey was a truly substance free psychoactive experience for me. woah...
Dolby pro Logic 2 decodes this properly. Sounds amazing!
I really enjoyed this! Reminded me of music from a planetarium at the beginning until she added the bass notes.
the Queen of Synthis!
yo 31.17 is madnessssss !! love this
shes way ahead of her time cheers
I'm not a performer, but it looks like she could benefit from a higher table; my back would be killing me from being hunched for that long.
Definitely! My back is the same. I'd never be able to hunch that long. I am a keyboardist and composer as well. I definitely have to sit down when playing or performing
Na she is just not a pussy like you, thats all.
this lady is too cool!!
why the hell would anyone thumbs down this??
possibly nothing against Ciani but more about the interviewer who seemed a little irritating.
unfortunately, idiots are everywhere...
Because this was interesting 50 years ago, maybe, when tehnology was young, but to run random sequences and tweak parametars is not music, my friend. I'm into the elektronic sound design, but in a musical way. This is just nonsence after 50 years of performing.
@@nensikalahan fascist bullshit.
Seth Ogden sometimes people thumbs down to show support. In jest. At least I have, spite. Fun.
Great use of Animoog there.
Thank you LA Public Library & Suzanne Ciani aka @sevwave on twitter! & thank you dublab.com
Im still waiting for a Kick and Hi-Hat and maybe a Snare. Got to do it by myself I guess... :)
Legend
Exactly
It's OK.
Thank you.
Seven waves is still the best album of all time.
Well, someone obviously has never listened to Dark Side of The Moon.
@@wayfaringshaman Seven Waves is better.
@@wayfaringshaman Someone will always bring that album up. Pink Floyd's most overrated album. ;) I'm much more of a The Wall-person...
@@wayfaringshaman Pink Floyd is boring. Yeah overrated and boring.
@@aniokay The Wall killed the band for me (and apparently Pink Floyd too). It bored me when it came out and it bores me now. Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Animals, Piper, Atom Heart Mother, Obscured By Clouds all destroy it.
Crazy this was at a library. Pretty dang cosmopolitan :)
You should see our new library card: instagram.com/lapubliclibrary/
They've had at least 40 years to figure it out. At the time no Library on earth was showing this kinda thing.. and was looked down upon, and that's not from a google search.
crush❤🔥
There could be quad performances such as this on Starship common deck, where there is quite a bit of time between Earth and Mars.
dope
This music cure my depression
wow
That is definitely Alex Pelly on the visuals
Remember the old Windows Media Player visualizations?
Yeah.
Is there an Optimod on the output of this whole video?? 💕
I love the Animoog as her interface. Trying to figure out the app on the left iPad.
she discusses it here (if it's the same app)
ruclips.net/video/CFD72PXOmxA/видео.html
She’s using the second iPad to control the H9 effect unit(s).
I must say, I'm listening electronic music for 40 years (Kraftwerk, Jarre, Tangerine dream, Klaus Shultze etc.) but I never encountered WOMAN in electronic music. Ms. Ciani is the first and I'm IMPRESSED!!
So you are like me .. Just discovered her ... After all these years listening to real electronic music ... Even though I heard her Name often but never listen to her music.... Absolutly stunned and great !
You should also check out Elaine Radigue who started doing electronic music in the 50's.
Beautiful minimalist ambient textures.
Laurie Spiegel, Wendy Carlos, Laurie Anderson, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith (more current), just to name a few. Lot's of very influential female synthesists. Hard to believe in 40 years you hadn't heard any of them. Just goes to show how the current musical paradigm never showcases innovation made by females. Now's your chance :)
@@Serioko No, I don't listen every peace of shitt, every musician that calls himself an electronic musician. I'm listening only the BEST (Kraftwerk, Jarre etc.). I don't want to bother with every musician that has a synthesizer at home and plays some music. I'm also composer of an electronic music, but that's not mean that everyone must hear for me. Here is some of my music, so you can judge for yourself. soundcloud.com/user-283504795/synthetic-love-345 (just click anywhere on my mail and you will get other songs). Bye! (by the way, with really NO OFFENSE to you, but in my language (I'm from Croatia), Seri Oko means to shitt in the eye... Sorry, but that is truth :)) ))
@@gorankopcic7827 "No offence" but in my language,you're a pompous horse's ass.
nice work on the restoration to todays 'standards'
a god
I love Ciani's work! Btw, to anyone who has been to one of Ciani's live show, I have a question about the experience of the quadraphonic setup.
I have been intrigued by the idea of spatial audio, but after some research, I realize there is a divide on whether such spatial music/speaker setup is enjoyable by the audience. For me, I am especially thinking about implementing a similar spatial sound system in my club/venue, in order to truly showcase quadraphonic sound.
what do you think of it from your experience with hearing it live?
Haven't been to a show by Ciani, but I have some experiences with spatial audio. I think a quadraphonic setup would be fine in a venue. When having a spatial audio setup with a lot of different channels, that's when it all falls apart in a space like a concert venue or club.
Those big systems are generally calculated for "3D" audio on a specific location, most probably the sound engineer's one. When I tried walking around to find the best sounding spot, I noticed the sound varies wildly from place to place, but none of the places I tried had a satisfactory sound.
Not to say these systems cannot sound great, I just mean they are better suited for an audience sitting close together in a specific location. So the variation in sound based on position is definitely something to look out for.
I saw Suzanne Ciani last night at EartH in Hackney (London, UK) and was blown away! Truly amazing, mesmerising performance. She is so at one with the Buchla (not surprisingly as she was pretty much there with Don Buchla in the early days) and as Robaire Beckwith (in this thread) said, she is so unpretentious and not in anyway self indulgent - just incredibly skilful. The quad sound system worked really well I thought and is an integral part of her performance on the Buchla. I have experienced quad before, in the dance tent at Roskilde Festival in Denmark, back in the late 90's and it was awesome! So yeah, go for it. Also go and see a Suzanne Ciani performance, you'll be blown away!
Presumably the performance was mixed to 4 channels for the audience. Would that the 2 channels here had been matrix encoded so that those with home theatre equipment could hear that. It’s not is it? (I get the feeling from the way some sounds come and go that it might even just be the front 2 channels & we can’t hear what was being bounced to the rear channels)I know the official release was matrixed 4 channel.
I have an SQ decoder from 1974 and when I set it to "2 to 4 Channel Ambience Mode" it kind of works.
get out of youtube, book a ticket and go to see her live!
It seems to be matrixed, it’s playing on my amp to 5.1 using DTS: NEO as well as Denon Matrix. Seems to be a pretty solid surround field.
Delia Derbyshire was ripped off by the BBC so badly, i firmly believe she became reclusive because of it's effect on her creative soul. Delias' works are fantastic, groundbreaking and essentially to me are utmost influencial.
Yeah absolutely man. Delia was the the true pioneer. And such a quirky enigmatic person. I would've loved to have met and hung out with her. She has a cult following these days but was largely unknown until the past decade
Is there any way to get a lossless copy of this? Please help me with this!
Does YT encode surround sound? This sounds great simply in stereo, I'd love to hear it in quad
I don't think yt can help you with that :(
Guess what no
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Interesting she doesn't use a tactle keyboard. Awesome performance.
Suzanne you should talk with the Grateful Dead crew. They know a LOT about speaker systems.
33:00 is a very psytrance sort of vibe. I'm impressed.
This is so incredibly mind blowing!! She is a female Thom Yorke. Just incredible genius work.
slowdivr2 what a silly comparison
Thom Yorke started catching up to electronic music like 30 years after her.
Boi she is the pioneer of electronic music
No she's Suzanne Ciani
Radiohead are mediocre at best. She'd wipe the floor with them!
AWESOME geek Trance music!!! ♪♫♪ she really needs a band! lol she can create some very pleasing sounds ☺♥♥♥
I've always enjoyed her work. Happy to see her still doing it. What I don't need is the dopey light show. I haven't dropped acid in 50 years, and I'm more likely to have a seizure than be "turned on" by this! Thankfully I can just listen.
sounds like you should try it again ;)
Headphones and some shut eye baby
team her up with Fripp and Eno
Does somebody know the name of the book? (written by the interviewer)
Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet: ls2pac.lapl.org/?section=resource&resourceid=1679198720¤tIndex=0&view=allCopiesDetailsTab
Fucking Cool
Starts 6:00
Skip to 5:30 right away.