I was extremely fortunate to see Suzanne Ciani in her first concert on a Buchla in over 40 years at the Gray Area in San Francisco March , 2016! I was such a treat!
Yes, I was there, but that was in 2017, a few months before this performance. Unless you're thinking of the 'Moogfest Dialtones' performance in 2016, which I missed. There is a link in my comments to a short video I caught during her Buchlafest performance, but of course that pales in comparison to the real sound experience in "QUAD" as you know. I also saw her at SFEMF in September of 2017, so I got to see her 3 times that year! I also just saw Morton Subotnick perform "Silver Apples..." live which was mindblowing. We are lucky here in the Bay Area! Cheers!
Quite extraordinary. Reminiscent of a group called Light Sound Dimension in San Francisco in the latter 1960s who didn't use synthesizers (SP?) and instead used some electronic experimental instruments acid derived, if you will. Very sophisticated feedback, strange, really strange percussion sounds-coupled with a rear projection light show done, I believe by one of the originators of Head Lights, who were Jefferson Airplane's "in house" light "accompanists" if you will. I saw them in a rare performance in the spring of 1970 in a warehouse in the Mission. They were also quite extraordinary. Their female vocalist was Beverly Bivens Marshall from We Five. They were transformative in an era of people transforming the human potential. Fifty plus years later it's one of those "like it happened yesterday trips."
I'm also glad I got this because I haven't seen any of the pro footage anywhere, they seemed a bit disorganized, so maybe it didn't work out? not sure, would love to hear a board recording.
Thanks for the video, Alphastare! I saw her play in London a couple of months ago. It was a quadraphonic performance, pretty amazing that the 40-something year old synth she uses has a technology that RUclips doesn't! Also, when I saw her live it was in colour ;)
She performed in quad and in color! I hadn't planned on being that close and I just spontaneously recorded it with my phone, hence the low production quality. Thanks for commenting!
For Ciani this is “child’s play” but what sublime play it is 🖤🖤 I would have done anything to have been there in ‘17 and had in fact planned to :/ Thus I suppose I mean I would’ve done *almost anything* as then I couldn’t attend. The regret will always haunt me. -Thank you for sharing!
You're very welcome, at least you got to see it here. Excited to see another legend here in a few days, Subotnick will be performing his final piece here in SF at Gray Area 6/24.
I listened her the first time many years ago, some themes from "History of my Heart" in a program of a FM radio here in Buenos Aires. I found her music marvelous and so intimate, tender... But when I saw here, in front of all this "weird stuff" (...I´m radio amateur, I know something about it...), I couldn´t imagine that this so beautiful lady could create so beautiful music, so many years later. I love you, Suzanne... ...many thanks..!
That's a lovely message Miguel. Even before 'History of My Heart: Suzanne was working with this instrument, as early as 1969-70 I think. She returned to it after many years. You should seek out "A life in Waves" a recent documentary about her that covers her history with the Buchla synth.
Extraño a la suzanne ciani de antes, su último álbum silver ship para mi fue el último con el que me identifiqué con ella, guardo con nostalgia todos sus álbumes, algunos autografiados, fotos y correspondencia😢
Great performance! I like how she uses iPads in her set-up. Would like to hear the east coast Moog Model 15 (iPad app) with her west coast Buchla gear. 🤔
She's a living connection to the origins of the craft. I saw her 3 times last year and it was amazing every time! I was lucky to have such a great view, thanks for watching.
C’est beau comme la non-rétractabilité des serres des oiseaux rapaces ou encore, comme l'incertitude des mouvements musculaires dans les plaies des parties molles de la région cervicale postérieure 💅
She has inspired the dream of having a quad set up at home for listen to quad vinyl albums and running my modular synth through (to get a small taste of what it’s like in a proper sized space). I love how controlling/moving the sounds spatial positioning is just as important as any other parameter for her. Amazing stuff.
I remember as a kid listening and buying classical music and electronic abstract music, along with rock n roll. The first two I was rejected by my family etc. No comprehension or emotive understandings concepts behind it. Guess what? Still am. Raised wrong. Could have been part of it with my own compositions.
She is a true pioneer in use of synthesis. There from the beginning. But damn I wish she’d play a different set. She even said in an interview she can patch that thing up blindfolded because it’s always the same
Yeah, she uses the same sequences she originally programmed in the synth! I kinda like the challenge of that, and I did see her 3 times around that period and each set had noticeable differences, but all very much the same mood due to the notes and their sequencing. She still managed to evoke feeling from the sets I saw and she does take off on experimental excursions but some new progressions would definitely be welcome!
la sensazione è paragonabile a quello che ho provato durante la accurata osservazione di uno di quei grandissimi dipinti di Sebastian Matta Echaurren...del suo ultimo periodo, intendo
@@wheelie63 True, you could close your eyes also. I saw 2 subsequent evening performances she did around this time as well, proper stage events. This was a sort of special homecoming for her, revisiting Berkeley where she studied in her early days, so it wasn't a big event and it was peripheral to the " Hippie Modernism" installation that was running at the time. Gallery vibes.
Haha ok. If we think of 'Hippies' as those lost flower children depicted in the magazines of the day, boogie-ing to Strawberry Alarm Clock,, most of who showed up from middle America in search of a utopia that did not really exist. The actual active counterculture is what the "Hippie Modernism" event was about. The Digger movement...the SF Mime Troupe, happenings and exhibitions. There was the SF Tape Music Center which preceded the hippie movement but easily contributed to the environment at the time. Don Buchla, who designed the Grateful Dead's sound system operated in Berkeley and was friends with Owsley Stanley, that is a pretty direct correlation if you ask me. Go over to Germany in the late 60's and the whole Krautrock movement was started by musicians who lived the communal lifestyle...if you can ever find any of those old records, good luck, you will see a bunch of long haired freeks with synths and tape machines...the guys in Kraftwerk even had long hair before they went full on "Futurism". As the Hippies matured we had the birth of New Age music which was largely synthesized as well as acoustic and electro-acoustic in nature. Suzanne Ciani came from the original scene having worked closely with Buchla starting in the late 60's but continued on her own in the New Age realm before returning to the Buchla synth in recent years. I'd go even further to point out the late 80's early 90's electronic music scene pretty much birthed the modern version of hippiedom, mostly in fashion but there was a level of underground activism and communal philosophies in a lot of those early rave scenes before it all went the way of the corporate festival Just a few correlations.
You can do wharever you want young boy, just think and do the right by now, study music, buy a synth, cheaper like Korg Minilogue, read good books of Synthesis, in one year or two, you will be knowing so much about it.
Award of most boring performance ever. I power up my eurorack and I get this random drone every other day. The guy noding his head probably has some equilibrium disorder.
@@logiqueraison5631 you have some points in this..and yes the performance is quite abnormally boring..and yes this stuff is what you get after some days on modular.
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I was extremely fortunate to see Suzanne Ciani in her first concert on a Buchla in over 40 years at the Gray Area in San Francisco March , 2016! I was such a treat!
Yes, I was there, but that was in 2017, a few months before this performance. Unless you're thinking of the 'Moogfest Dialtones' performance in 2016, which I missed. There is a link in my comments to a short video I caught during her Buchlafest performance, but of course that pales in comparison to the real sound experience in "QUAD" as you know. I also saw her at SFEMF in September of 2017, so I got to see her 3 times that year! I also just saw Morton Subotnick perform "Silver Apples..." live which was mindblowing. We are lucky here in the Bay Area! Cheers!
We ARE extremely fortunate to live in this area, with so many instrumental and influential synthesists and artists nearby. :)
The grey palette on this film is amazing.
Simply Beautiful!
Gotta say it, she looks great for 70.
i realize it is kinda off topic but do anyone know a good site to watch new movies online?
@Victor Austin lately I have been using Flixzone. Just search on google for it =)
@Victor Austin try FlixZone. You can find it by googling :)
@@victoraustin9429 M4uhd google that but make sure you have at least three popup blockers installed on your browser
Granny chaser
This is what music is about...having fun.
CIANI HOW I LOVE THEE__
Quite extraordinary. Reminiscent of a group called Light Sound Dimension in San Francisco in the latter 1960s who didn't use synthesizers (SP?) and instead used some electronic experimental instruments acid derived, if you will. Very sophisticated feedback, strange, really strange percussion sounds-coupled with a rear projection light show done, I believe by one of the originators of Head Lights, who were Jefferson Airplane's "in house" light "accompanists" if you will. I saw them in a rare performance in the spring of 1970 in a warehouse in the Mission. They were also quite extraordinary. Their female vocalist was Beverly Bivens Marshall from We Five. They were transformative in an era of people transforming the human potential. Fifty plus years later it's one of those "like it happened yesterday trips."
Great performance, always enjoy listening to her
One of the O. G. and can still give the youngsters a run for their money!
You know this!
I'm also glad I got this because I haven't seen any of the pro footage anywhere, they seemed a bit disorganized, so maybe it didn't work out? not sure, would love to hear a board recording.
Straight off the Soundboard would be like angels relieving themselves in your ear!
@@sofa-lofa4241 hahahaha what an image...
Love her body of work and this performance
that is beyond words.
She's a freakin genius!
I love what she does with electronics ... Marvelous soundplay, marvelous music.
A true testament to the usage of electronics.
Master Ciani
beautiful music
It's basically performance art. The human interaction element is such a big part of this.
Great performance and music. Thank you for uploading this video.
Thanks for the video, Alphastare!
I saw her play in London a couple of months ago. It was a quadraphonic performance, pretty amazing that the 40-something year old synth she uses has a technology that RUclips doesn't!
Also, when I saw her live it was in colour ;)
She performed in quad and in color! I hadn't planned on being that close and I just spontaneously recorded it with my phone, hence the low production quality. Thanks for commenting!
For Ciani this is “child’s play” but what sublime play it is 🖤🖤 I would have done anything to have been there in ‘17
and had in fact planned to :/ Thus I suppose I mean I would’ve done *almost anything* as then I couldn’t attend. The regret will always haunt me. -Thank you for sharing!
You're very welcome, at least you got to see it here. Excited to see another legend here in a few days, Subotnick will be performing his final piece here in SF at Gray Area 6/24.
Love it thanks for share!
Glad you enjoyed it
I really liked it. Don't hear sound artists often enough to develop an opinion, but I completely enjoyed this.
Always stunning. Hippie modernism! Peace Christo 👽🐕🎶❤️
Fantastic... woman & music!...
I listened her the first time many years ago, some themes from "History of my Heart" in a program of a FM radio here in Buenos Aires. I found her music marvelous and so intimate, tender...
But when I saw here, in front of all this "weird stuff" (...I´m radio amateur, I know something about it...), I couldn´t imagine that this so beautiful lady could create so beautiful music, so many years later.
I love you, Suzanne... ...many thanks..!
That's a lovely message Miguel. Even before 'History of My Heart: Suzanne was working with this instrument, as early as 1969-70 I think. She returned to it after many years. You should seek out "A life in Waves" a recent documentary about her that covers her history with the Buchla synth.
Impresionante y absolutamente fascinado con su musica.❤❤❤
Super eletroacoustic, thank you.
Thanks for watching, it was wonderful seeing her at work.
It would be a pleasure to learn with you, maybe someday. Thank you again.
Le LIVE J'adore ! 🎹🎹👍🌹😚
This is music correct?
But why I don’t hear no bass?
The mother of electronics
would love to see her and autechre, they can decide who opens for who
or better yet they all play together
Extraño a la suzanne ciani de antes, su último álbum silver ship para mi fue el último con el que me identifiqué con ella, guardo con nostalgia todos sus álbumes, algunos autografiados, fotos y correspondencia😢
This is the Suzanne Ciani of before. She was doing this before releasing contemporary piano music. Equally as important.
amazing
Great performance!
I like how she uses iPads in her set-up.
Would like to hear the east coast Moog Model 15 (iPad app) with her west coast Buchla gear. 🤔
I just discoverd her this is where they all get it all the post punk .uk guys her and eno but she is way more cutting edge
She's been around for a loooonnnggg time and was a pioneer in the adoption of original modular synths. Check out as much of her work as possible!
Some really good stuff here.
She's a living connection to the origins of the craft. I saw her 3 times last year and it was amazing every time! I was lucky to have such a great view, thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
Sounds great for 70.
C’est beau comme la non-rétractabilité des serres des oiseaux rapaces ou encore, comme l'incertitude des mouvements musculaires dans les plaies des parties molles de la région cervicale postérieure 💅
Is quad audio supported by youtube? Saw Suzanne at Moogfest 2017 and the quad sound really adds to the experience.
She has inspired the dream of having a quad set up at home for listen to quad vinyl albums and running my modular synth through (to get a small taste of what it’s like in a proper sized space). I love how controlling/moving the sounds spatial positioning is just as important as any other parameter for her. Amazing stuff.
Om Shanti Om 🎶👍
По-моему, великий смысл этого действа - мистерия единства цифрового и чувственного, психического! Женщина удерживает ОКЕАН! Респект!
Très intéressant la musique 👍je compose dans le même style
Still beautiful, despite her age.
I remember as a kid listening and buying classical music and electronic abstract music, along with rock n roll. The first two I was rejected by my family etc. No comprehension or emotive understandings concepts behind it. Guess what? Still am. Raised wrong. Could have been part of it with my own compositions.
Wow!
She is a true pioneer in use of synthesis. There from the beginning.
But damn I wish she’d play a different set. She even said in an interview she can patch that thing up blindfolded because it’s always the same
Yeah, she uses the same sequences she originally programmed in the synth! I kinda like the challenge of that, and I did see her 3 times around that period and each set had noticeable differences, but all very much the same mood due to the notes and their sequencing. She still managed to evoke feeling from the sets I saw and she does take off on experimental excursions but some new progressions would definitely be welcome!
Hope to see her live in Germany.
Respekt 😘😜
best
I feel like this is what I do every time I jam with my synths and midi
'Sisters With Transistors' got me here.... over 40 years late ...wtf
27.48 ......oh yes!!!
3:05 Airplane! 👍🏼
shame this wasnt from the board
Yeah, i'd love to hear that too. There was a pro crew there but I never saw anything become available.
I do something similar using my caustic app an my android hooked up to cheap vox valvatronix.
At the end when a lady said who's next I thought next must be Bloop Bloop from planet Blap Map.
Schultz Jarre Ciani
I use VCV rack on windows (free) to play with synths, concepts are the same.
Link your set up? I've just upgraded to the new VCV and have lots more modules available and am rather lost...
:D I dont think having a Buchla 200 series and above is the same as VCV but none the less, a good place to start in software ;)
+Marky ZnO
He does say the *concepts* are the same, which they mostly are.
Marky ZnO I agree , there is no substitute for a mass of knobs and patchcords.
Haha but the money you'll make from those sounds is definitely in a different tax bracket from the sounds she is producing
So when she clicks the MARF, she gets a new melody. Looks like.
Brazil 14/04/21 22:23 hs 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
ah
la sensazione è paragonabile a quello che ho provato durante la accurata osservazione di uno di quei grandissimi dipinti di Sebastian Matta Echaurren...del suo ultimo periodo, intendo
A Surrealist soundscape indeed.
I would applaud the synths and arpeggios, but that would be weird.
really ? we can't even dim the lights for the show ?........
There were no lights on, it was a daytime show in a gallery with natural light provided by the sun.
@@Alphastare23 okay, fair enough, i like the Sun............this music is considerably enhanced by the proper environment however. wb
@@wheelie63 True, you could close your eyes also. I saw 2 subsequent evening performances she did around this time as well, proper stage events. This was a sort of special homecoming for her, revisiting Berkeley where she studied in her early days, so it wasn't a big event and it was peripheral to the " Hippie Modernism" installation that was running at the time. Gallery vibes.
I want to know what app she is using as a hands-on controller.
She uses an Eventide H9 and that was the control app.
@@Alphastare23 She also uses the AniMoog iPad app..
Well, one thing it´is for sure, electronic music have no correlation with hippies.
Haha ok. If we think of 'Hippies' as those lost flower children depicted in the magazines of the day, boogie-ing to Strawberry Alarm Clock,, most of who showed up from middle America in search of a utopia that did not really exist.
The actual active counterculture is what the "Hippie Modernism" event was about. The Digger movement...the SF Mime Troupe, happenings and exhibitions. There was the SF Tape Music Center which preceded the hippie movement but easily contributed to the environment at the time.
Don Buchla, who designed the Grateful Dead's sound system operated in Berkeley and was friends with Owsley Stanley, that is a pretty direct correlation if you ask me.
Go over to Germany in the late 60's and the whole Krautrock movement was started by musicians who lived the communal lifestyle...if you can ever find any of those old records, good luck, you will see a bunch of long haired freeks with synths and tape machines...the guys in Kraftwerk even had long hair before they went full on "Futurism".
As the Hippies matured we had the birth of New Age music which was largely synthesized as well as acoustic and electro-acoustic in nature. Suzanne Ciani came from the original scene having worked closely with Buchla starting in the late 60's but continued on her own in the New Age realm before returning to the Buchla synth in recent years.
I'd go even further to point out the late 80's early 90's electronic music scene pretty much birthed the modern version of hippiedom, mostly in fashion but there was a level of underground activism and communal philosophies in a lot of those early rave scenes before it all went the way of the corporate festival
Just a few correlations.
Not her greatest performance 🤦🏻
No words then? I guess this is the karaoke version?
haha she's not a living legend for singing, her speaking voice is quite lovely tho.
Old machine, I can do that!
You can do wharever you want young boy, just think and do the right by now, study music, buy a synth, cheaper like Korg Minilogue, read good books of Synthesis, in one year or two, you will be knowing so much about it.
Award of most boring performance ever. I power up my eurorack and I get this random drone every other day.
The guy noding his head probably has some equilibrium disorder.
She's still way cooler than you and a pioneer of the genre with nothing to prove. Drone on...
@@Alphastare23 if you need to use me, a random internet troll, as a comparaison to explain how "cool" she is... Then yeah probably she's terribly bad.
@@logiqueraison5631 you have some points in this..and yes the performance is quite abnormally boring..and yes this stuff is what you get after some days on modular.