For everyone watching in 2023 - she’s performing in Portland in May and my friend is opening the show, please give her her flowers while she’s still here!!
I can't believe this even exists! Someone in 1979 did a documentary about the making of a pinball machine- no scratch that-about the making of the SOUNDS of a pinball machine? We are so lucky this was even captured on film. What a wonderful little treasure.
✌️there were always documentary’s on everything 😅 back then people didn’t just kinda watch videos of people being silly or unwrapping things etc ✌️really sucks that soooo many VHS documentaries are fading out of existence
I ADORE the way the narrator talks about the tech. “48 THOUSAND bytes!” “In the future, women with sound chips in their earrings will listen to Beethoven’s Symphony.” Absolute gold
I played that game as a kid. Those dark arcade halls were caverns of mystery and marvel no kid today can comprehend. It didn't matter where you were - a funfair, a gas station, a beach resort - those machines would reach out to you like sentinels to a strange world with promises of fearful adventure. It would raise the little hairs on your back and widen your youthful pupils. When I heard the lady's voice I didn't know whether to fall in love or run for my life.
@@Dielawn69 Come on now, I think anyone compares favorably against former failed president Criminal Traitor Trumpski. He's 6'1 and probably 300 lbs. He can barely descend a shallow incline without help. And do you honestly think by looking at him that he aged more gracefully?
As others have already stated: This will be a treasure for all time as the rarity of subject matter and quality of presentation are certainly on a level all their own. And her haircut is amazing.
I had her Meditations For Dreams, Relaxation, and Sleep album in my massage room for about two years. One day I changed it out for something else and a handful of people complained and asked for it back.
Suzanne Ciani is up there with Delia Derbyshire. Their influence is going strong today even with people that have never heard of them. Just think how many companies are creating pedals and synths to recreate the sounds of early video games.
The most sensual pinball game of all time 😂. Seriously though - what a fantastic understanding of sound design and how much it effects the way the player perceives and responds to the gameplay. Must have been a blast recording it all.
Definitely a pre-cursor to Elvira and BOP. It's really cool that she designed the whole sound architecture, as well as lending her voice, giving XENON a huge part of its personality.
Lady laid the groundwork for all modern gaming sounds. Everything you hear is a version of a version of a version of her sounds. The OG. The Pinball Queen.
@@websurfer5772 🎶"Ever since she was a young girl, bright-eyed, slim and tall, from Xenon to The Shadow, made soundtracks for them all, I've never heard a voice like hers in any amusement hall, that smooth-voiced brunette girl sure makes a mean pinball!"🎶
I feel so much of pride and achievement just by watching these retro videos of developers in 70s & 80s. They are the pioneers of the current consoles our generation takes for granted.
Xenon is still one of the best of the best. The gameplay, the artwork, the sound, it all comes together in an almost magical way. Truly a thing of beauty.
Yeah, those old computers are crazy. But, Suzanne still makes music in a bit of the old fashioned style. Loopop interviewed her regarding quadraphonic live production. That woman is a real treasure.
It can be straightforward, but it can also be as un-straightforward as you want. You can still download something like VCV rack if you wanna mess with modular synth stuff. I think the woman in this video wrote one of the original "cookbooks" for different sounds and processes for modular synths, too.
There are still people who have racks of equipment and hundreds of patch cables going from place to place, and create the most amazing generative modular synth music, configuring and patching those things together in such a way that not only do they make great music, they can actually keep generating good music all on their own for indefinite periods of time. There are also advantages to that type of approach over doing everything on a PC. It's insane what people are able to do and the boundaries that are still being pushed with techniques like that to this very day.
@@yseson_ dang it, did not know about that (just stumbled across her work), and did not know about ambient church, either. What a cool concept. Seems she just had a show in LA recently, too.
The narrator makes the whole thing feel so ancient lol, but in a good, cute kind of way. The video start to finish just puts a smile on my face. She seems like a very passionate person.
@@OrdinaryOneOfficial bro, nobody suggested apple was the first to create wireless ear buds. calm down, sheesh. though they did make the modern cellphone marketable and desirable.
What an artist. And apparently she had a concert in my home town in October and I never knew. Wonder if she'll ever be in this part of the world again.
She's still doing the occasional tour here and there afaik. I was one of the audio technicians who worked with her when she played in Dublin around that time, very interesting show.
I was a pinball champion in the early 80's. Always best to play with headphones on when allowed. The sound's purpose is to increase your anxiety and take you out of zen. The sound is trying to kill you and attract more customers and their quarters. Concentrate on the ball. Keep your mind still. Fall into the zone.
Xenon was and is an absolute masterpiece. While Bally did make some ho-hum pinball machines throughout the years, they showed that they could make some absolutely spectacular ones as well. Xenon is a shining example of what Bally could do when they really wanted to make a great game.
It's crazy how a decent chunk of musicians struggle to sing and play an instrument simultaneously but in this video Suzanne not only types as a function but seemingly does so while coming up with parameters on the fly, all while barely losing any of her concentration devoted to talking about what she's doing.
I grew up playing guitar and struggled for a while to sing while playing. Now it's easy. Oddly I can also type full paragraphs flawlessly on a computer while having a full conversation. My brain must be trained that way now. It would not surprise me if she was a guitarist who sings as well.
Back in the day, my friends and I would travel downtown to a huge arcade to play dozens of pinball machines we didn't have in our university game room. Xenon was one of them, with its wonderful artwork, music, sound and speech. Considering some of the speech was pretty sultry, I would naturally assume some dude had designed and directed it. It's great to see this, and to learn the whole sound and music architecture was Ms. Ciani's invention, and that she had pitched it to Bally and created it herself. Nowadays, Xenon is one of my favorite pinball machines to play in sim form in Pinball Arcade on Steam. I've probably logged hundreds of hours on it in the last few months, and now I know who created the music and who's voice is featured. Ms. Suzanne Ciani is a legit genius!!
Suzanne was involved in the creation of one of my favorite records of all time, Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk by Meco Monardo. I played that record over and over when I was a kid, and was lucky enough to find it on CD as an adult. I still listen to it from time to time. It never fails to raise my spirits and get me motivated. Thanks, Suzanne. You helped make my life more fun!
I can't tell you how many times I've actually watched this. Me and a group of friends traveled 7 hours to go to the worlds largest arcade in new Hampshire. Little did I know that even though I had set out to play arcade games of the past, that I would fall in love with pinball. I remember my friend saying...tait...tait...you gotta check this out. The machine is moaning at me! I was like...no way...and then I met Xenon. It didn't take long and I fell in love with her. Not more than 6 months from our trip I tracked down my first pinball and taking a few of the friends I had been on with that trip we went to pick her up. It changed my life forever. The thought of living with out pinball seems desolate and worthless now. If I ever meet Mz Ciani I will thank her.
@@Zebtronarama I grew up near Funspot in New Hampshire... having that place to go to as a kid forever ruined arcades for me as an adult - they all seem lame by comparison!
I’ve ever only known her for the piano pieces she contributed to a New Age piano collection on vinyl which l still own….this is a real pleasure l never looked into her synth body of work she is so tech savvy that early music computer tech is difficult to produce music with and what an presence and voice she has.
From a Game Developer's perspective, I think her intuition to watch people play on similar games to then capture something of their emotions is such a great approach. I salute it and I'm in love with that soundtrack.
I was heavily into Pinball Machines when I was a kid in the late 60's and early 70's. Anyone that knows anything about them knows the sound/music loop they played when no one was playing them is what drew people in to actually play them. I could walk into any store, restaurant or truck stop and I could hear these things that drew me in to see what they were.
In the biz they called that ‘attract’ mode. I noticed that places that still have arcade machines have attract mode turned off. It probably gets annoying listening to the same sounds over and over
This is the "Boomer" genius for which the entire gaming industry owes it's existence. Her idea to reflect the players emotion back to them in a digital sound is what activates that pleasure center in the brain of the game player, greatly enhancing the experience, and the ability to get people to give money to play a game.
Playing pinball machines at the arcade back in the 80's was truly blast as a kid, the designs, the colors, the sounds, the artwork and just everything about was just mindblowing and amazing. This was pure joy to watch. What a job!
LOL I love that line at the end where he says, "Women of the future will be wearing sound chips in their earrings, listening to Beethoven." -------Damn, he nailed it: it's called a wireless earbud, and they are indeed super popular.
'in the future women with soundchips in their earrings will listen to beethoven's symphony.' ...or music that was heavily inspired by the sounds that Suzanne created right here.
Absolutely amazing, this is what art is all about, finding ways to express yourself and create new unique experiences for others to enjoy. So inspiring.
Thanks for posting this! Loved playing the Xenon pinball table back in the early 80s - Suzanne’s lovely voice and the great pinball action kept me popping in more quarter’s day after day! Love this machine!
Holy Shit I can't believe I stumbled across this. I grew up with this pinball machine. My 10-year-old bad-ass self had one hell of a kink for that sexy female robotic voice. It became one of my favorite pin-ball machines to play and I believe it's one of my first multi-ball pin ball game that I ever played, which added to the wow factor, but it was that sexy ass female robotic voice had me coming back again and again to spend all my allowance money.
I grew up listening to Suzanne Ciani's music (Neverland, Velocity of Love, Pianissimo), and I had no idea she did this, but it makes sense. What a gem!
I only encountered Xenon once or twice in my pinball-inflected youth, but I remember this feeling of awe at how it all came together. There was something "clean" and shimmery about it. It was kind of sexy but not in a smutty way at all, not super-overt. "Sensual" is a good word for it. Now I see why: it was an artistic labor of love, and its sonic design was crafted by the legendary Suzanne Ciani. I love documentaries like this, and like "Classic Albums". It's an absolute joy to watch true artists and to appreciate the level of care they invest in their creative processes.
It is insane, the amount of work they had to do, to make little jingles and sound FX for a game. I remember recording to 4-track tape recorders, which was super high-tech compared to what is going on here. Now you can write an album on an ipad. I don’t know why this video exists, but I love it.
"The idea of using short grunts and groans... I wanted it to talk back to the people playing. You know when the ball goes through the tube? It's a kind of emotional let go." Yes... yes I hear you.
Yep, I knew of her via music every since the late 80s. Madonna's cover of "American Pie" sounds like Suzanne Ciani's music from "Seven Waves" put to an uptempo beat.
Wow! Pinball is one heck of a game. I remember playing the same machine she was hired to compose for. It's still out there today! The artwork of that particular machine was sexy and sleek and modern. Her voice was all I wanted to hear! The clacking and pinging of those beautiful machines really REALLY let you know that you were in an arcade. I'm checking my pockets for quarters right now!
I've loved her music ever since 1990 when I discovered "Pianissimo" and 1991 with "Hotel Luna". How fun to find this video! You just have to appreciate the comparatively primitive level of technology she was using to do this. The sequencing and composing tools have since evolved to the nth degree...
I've actually played this pinball machine at a local arcade with unlimited play. It's probably my favorite one in the whole hall next to The Addams Family pinball machine that will have the flappers do the infamous double snap from the song.
From what I can tell she was using a New England Digital Synclavier, which runs on an Able computer from 1975. Which was used to score numerous films back in the 80's and 90's, because it allowed you to pitch shift any sound and map it to middle C on a piano. So you literally played your recorded sounds on a keyboard. Memory management, and the operating system was a whole different deal, unlike I'd ever seen.
For everyone watching in 2023 - she’s performing in Portland in May and my friend is opening the show, please give her her flowers while she’s still here!!
That's super! 💐
Cool thanks!!
Wow! Please let her know she won’t be forgotten
I remember seeing her on the David Letterman show on TV in the 80's such a genius she was and is ❤️
I somehow discovered her when I was looking for concerts when I first moved to Seattle. Thanks for the reminder of her upcoming concerts!
I can't believe this even exists! Someone in 1979 did a documentary about the making of a pinball machine- no scratch that-about the making of the SOUNDS of a pinball machine? We are so lucky this was even captured on film. What a wonderful little treasure.
Theyll say the same for spacex one day
And lasted long enough to be uploaded to the internet! This easily could have been lost.
@@luminousfractal420 no they won't
and got it narrated by sir peter Ustinov
✌️there were always documentary’s on everything 😅 back then people didn’t just kinda watch videos of people being silly or unwrapping things etc ✌️really sucks that soooo many VHS documentaries are fading out of existence
I ADORE the way the narrator talks about the tech. “48 THOUSAND bytes!” “In the future, women with sound chips in their earrings will listen to Beethoven’s Symphony.”
Absolute gold
Switch out Beethoven for Megan The Stalion
Wow, did he just predict TWS headphones?
That's a decent amount in solid state for the era, 48k. The commercial integrated circuit was relatively new at the time.
That was 48 thousand BITS, not bytes. 48,000 bits equates to only 6K.
@@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat Good point. I just wanted to point it out whilst I saw you comment.
📌Her natural speaking voice is more mesmerizing than the added sound effects.❤️
"try tube shot"
Dude fr. She has an incredibly attractive voice
I'd love this lady to read audio books.
@@klausgh how do you read an audio book? (jk)
That's how women used to be. Feminant. Not these gross mutants you have now
I played that game as a kid. Those dark arcade halls were caverns of mystery and marvel no kid today can comprehend. It didn't matter where you were - a funfair, a gas station, a beach resort - those machines would reach out to you like sentinels to a strange world with promises of fearful adventure. It would raise the little hairs on your back and widen your youthful pupils. When I heard the lady's voice I didn't know whether to fall in love or run for my life.
HAHAHA FANTASTIC!!!!☀️🧿🌟✨
Beautiful and relatable explanation dude. I used to be terrified of a terminator pinball machine when we used to go to Pontins when I was a kid lol
I loved going for the tube shots!
I always have to play a game of pinball if I see a working machine
Quarters, I need quarters!
She writes basic code like she’s playing a keyboard. Love it
It's not basic
@@StarsManny Do you mean BASIC? (because she is writing code in the video).
@@dannygjk I don't think it's BASIC though. Maybe a type of MIDI control script?
@@dannygjk yes, I mean the language BASC
@@liquidsonly If you can use it to write code that makes decisions and runs loops it's still program code.
I wasn't familiar with her. Did a quick google ... it was cool to see she had a great career, including 5 grammy nominations. Still kicking at 76.
Her and pres. Trump is same age
@@missingremote4388 Although she is in much better shape and aged much more gracefully
@@spacemanjupiter how the hell do you know how good of shape a random lady is that you just learned about lol
Gilf
@@Dielawn69 Come on now, I think anyone compares favorably against former failed president Criminal Traitor Trumpski. He's 6'1 and probably 300 lbs. He can barely descend a shallow incline without help. And do you honestly think by looking at him that he aged more gracefully?
Wait... synthesizers, music, 80's computers, pinball, vocoder, Susanne Ciani? This is paradise!
Sometimes I miss the '80s.
@@pryingeyes1551 i always missed them...look where are we now bended before ai like servants
Hm..jmj vangelis schultze froese oldfield kraftwerk tangerine dream...
@DEDLI kidding me? i was born with that music...but does not matter an unbeliever...succes to your listening
AND you have that ham sandwich you just made for yourself!!! ORGASMATRON UNITED FC!!! wot!!??
As others have already stated: This will be a treasure for all time as the rarity of subject matter and quality of presentation are certainly on a level all their own. And her haircut is amazing.
Thus woman's not only a genius, she has the most soothing voice I've ever heard!!]
Harry Chapin died on the way to the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theater.
100 agree .
That's how women used to be. Feminant. Not these gross mutants you have now
@@TheEgg185 what a shame, love his music
Good masturbation material indeed.
She's got an absolutely gorgeous voice.
I could listen to Suzanne's soothing voice forever. ♥ 🎶
SAME
I have a new dream girl
"oh oh oh OH OHHH!"
For real though.
5:10
What a dope voice. Hope she recorded tons of sci-fi lines.
Futuristic by nature.
I came hard.
Dope? Oy.
@@lefkytheshin Yes, he thinks he's a criminal rapper.
I had her Meditations For Dreams, Relaxation, and Sleep album in my massage room for about two years. One day I changed it out for something else and a handful of people complained and asked for it back.
"She catches the indefinable, and turns it into music." With on-point, fantastic red nails. Yes sis
So cool to see her programme music by command on an 80s computer wearing screaming red nails. Epic!
@@mojorisin8368sort your life out hater.
Wow you really care about nails.
@@ikillwithyourtruthholdagai2000 Apparently. I was surprised myself...
@DOGS LOL huh?
She wipes her ass with those hands. Eww
Suzanne Ciani is up there with Delia Derbyshire. Their influence is going strong today even with people that have never heard of them. Just think how many companies are creating pedals and synths to recreate the sounds of early video games.
The most sensual pinball game of all time 😂. Seriously though - what a fantastic understanding of sound design and how much it effects the way the player perceives and responds to the gameplay. Must have been a blast recording it all.
I remember playing this game way back when. 5 year old me was definitely having some confused feelings.
Elvira and Bride of Pinbot are sexy too 😆
Definitely a pre-cursor to Elvira and BOP. It's really cool that she designed the whole sound architecture, as well as lending her voice, giving XENON a huge part of its personality.
How can you not feed it more quarters with Susanne whispering "Try tube shot" ...
@@stradaview2000 ...and "Try me again!" at the end of each game?
Lady laid the groundwork for all modern gaming sounds. Everything you hear is a version of a version of a version of her sounds.
The OG. The Pinball Queen.
🎶How do you think she does it?
I don't know
What makes her so good?🎶
Zug Zug
@@websurfer5772 🎶"Ever since she was a young girl, bright-eyed, slim and tall, from Xenon to The Shadow, made soundtracks for them all, I've never heard a voice like hers in any amusement hall, that smooth-voiced brunette girl sure makes a mean pinball!"🎶
Don't get carried away. Men did all of that first. ..being a woman doesn't make you special
@@ardie72 cool story, bro
I feel so much of pride and achievement just by watching these retro videos of developers in 70s & 80s. They are the pioneers of the current consoles our generation takes for granted.
1:48 I like watching artists groove on something that they just made - watching people enjoy making art is a huge part of what fuels RUclips today.
It's what fueled RUclips a decade ago. Now is pools filled with zorbeez by a guy who has so much Botox in his head he has a joker grin.
Xenon is still one of the best of the best. The gameplay, the artwork, the sound, it all comes together in an almost magical way. Truly a thing of beauty.
Played Xenon 100s, maybe 1000s of times as a little delinquent in a backstreet laundramat. I was addicted, I now see, to Suzanne's voice.
As a woman in the audio industry, this is inspiring!
her voice is heavenly
Seeing what it was like to produce electronic music back then is always a trip. Now it's so straightforward with DAWs and VSTs.
Yeah, those old computers are crazy. But, Suzanne still makes music in a bit of the old fashioned style. Loopop interviewed her regarding quadraphonic live production. That woman is a real treasure.
It can be straightforward, but it can also be as un-straightforward as you want. You can still download something like VCV rack if you wanna mess with modular synth stuff. I think the woman in this video wrote one of the original "cookbooks" for different sounds and processes for modular synths, too.
There are still people who have racks of equipment and hundreds of patch cables going from place to place, and create the most amazing generative modular synth music, configuring and patching those things together in such a way that not only do they make great music, they can actually keep generating good music all on their own for indefinite periods of time. There are also advantages to that type of approach over doing everything on a PC. It's insane what people are able to do and the boundaries that are still being pushed with techniques like that to this very day.
Wow, Suzanne has a really soothing voice.
I can only imagine how creative she is in the digital world now
not so much.
She still tours, she played a show at the ambient church here in Chicago last November
If you want to see people pushing against the current edge of what sound can do, look up Virtual Riot - Chroma
@@yseson_ dang it, did not know about that (just stumbled across her work), and did not know about ambient church, either. What a cool concept. Seems she just had a show in LA recently, too.
Such a pioneer, and even now the sounds still sound so futuristic and cool, she was way ahead of her time.
The narrator makes the whole thing feel so ancient lol, but in a good, cute kind of way. The video start to finish just puts a smile on my face.
She seems like a very passionate person.
7:08 "in the future women with sound chips in their ear rings will listen to bethoven's symphonies" Wild how they can predict ear buds man.
“Someday women with sound chips in their earrings will listen to Beethoven symphonies” madlad just predicted AirPods.
No, bro. They were wireless earbuds long before those.
@@subs4794 This dude's gonna think apple invented smart phones next.
@@subs4794 it doesn’t matter if almost nobody used them
@@subs4794 sort of how there were cell phones WAAY back. never mind they were in suitcase sized housing right?
@@OrdinaryOneOfficial bro, nobody suggested apple was the first to create wireless ear buds. calm down, sheesh. though they did make the modern cellphone marketable and desirable.
What an artist. And apparently she had a concert in my home town in October and I never knew. Wonder if she'll ever be in this part of the world again.
oh my god, i also missed her in my town. fuck. she came here on my birthday. so tragic. i love her so much
She's still doing the occasional tour here and there afaik.
I was one of the audio technicians who worked with her when she played in Dublin around that time, very interesting show.
Wow. She has a so soft, calm voice...I could listen to her for hours.
I’ve met Suzanne: still making music and very active with concerts. Friendly and inquisitive too.
I was a pinball champion in the early 80's. Always best to play with headphones on when allowed. The sound's purpose is to increase your anxiety and take you out of zen. The sound is trying to kill you and attract more customers and their quarters. Concentrate on the ball. Keep your mind still. Fall into the zone.
Signs of a misspent youth if ever there were.
@@p.pingtam7253 oh stop
Xenon was and is an absolute masterpiece. While Bally did make some ho-hum pinball machines throughout the years, they showed that they could make some absolutely spectacular ones as well. Xenon is a shining example of what Bally could do when they really wanted to make a great game.
Bally is the best, no stern table can't even touch it. Williams were on the same level but bally beat them by the numbers.
It's crazy how a decent chunk of musicians struggle to sing and play an instrument simultaneously but in this video Suzanne not only types as a function but seemingly does so while coming up with parameters on the fly, all while barely losing any of her concentration devoted to talking about what she's doing.
I grew up playing guitar and struggled for a while to sing while playing. Now it's easy. Oddly I can also type full paragraphs flawlessly on a computer while having a full conversation. My brain must be trained that way now. It would not surprise me if she was a guitarist who sings as well.
This is unrelated but she has the most soothing voice I've ever heard
There's so much I want to say about this.
She's insanely creative and a real unsung hero
Back in the day, my friends and I would travel downtown to a huge arcade to play dozens of pinball machines we didn't have in our university game room. Xenon was one of them, with its wonderful artwork, music, sound and speech. Considering some of the speech was pretty sultry, I would naturally assume some dude had designed and directed it. It's great to see this, and to learn the whole sound and music architecture was Ms. Ciani's invention, and that she had pitched it to Bally and created it herself. Nowadays, Xenon is one of my favorite pinball machines to play in sim form in Pinball Arcade on Steam. I've probably logged hundreds of hours on it in the last few months, and now I know who created the music and who's voice is featured. Ms. Suzanne Ciani is a legit genius!!
Her voice is the true music here
Suzanne was involved in the creation of one of my favorite records of all time, Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk by Meco Monardo. I played that record over and over when I was a kid, and was lucky enough to find it on CD as an adult. I still listen to it from time to time. It never fails to raise my spirits and get me motivated. Thanks, Suzanne. You helped make my life more fun!
OMG I have that one! I love it also
also Same.
3:26. This is the first time I’ve ever heard HER voice. So soothing and pleasant!
Maaad props to this woman… 👏👏👏 saved in the favorites for sure 👌
Never heard of her, never played a pinball but she’s got it all! It’s a work of art.
Words Ciani never uttered. 'there are not enough women in the industry'
@@yousuck6222 funny how all them femoids love saying crap like that now days.
You're missing out.
Pinball is Tha best man.
What kind of weirdo had never played pinball?
I can't tell you how many times I've actually watched this. Me and a group of friends traveled 7 hours to go to the worlds largest arcade in new Hampshire. Little did I know that even though I had set out to play arcade games of the past, that I would fall in love with pinball. I remember my friend saying...tait...tait...you gotta check this out. The machine is moaning at me! I was like...no way...and then I met Xenon. It didn't take long and I fell in love with her. Not more than 6 months from our trip I tracked down my first pinball and taking a few of the friends I had been on with that trip we went to pick her up. It changed my life forever. The thought of living with out pinball seems desolate and worthless now. If I ever meet Mz Ciani I will thank her.
Funspot is heaven on Earth.
@@Zebtronarama I grew up near Funspot in New Hampshire... having that place to go to as a kid forever ruined arcades for me as an adult - they all seem lame by comparison!
The Fun Spot in Weirs Beach NH is a trip of a place. well worth going. But call if there is snow i drove once to find it closed for snow.
did you try 'tube shot'?
Wow, cool story!
I’ve ever only known her for the piano pieces she contributed to a New Age piano collection on vinyl which l still own….this is a real pleasure l never looked into her synth body of work she is so tech savvy that early music computer tech is difficult to produce music with and what an presence and voice she has.
From a Game Developer's perspective, I think her intuition to watch people play on similar games to then capture something of their emotions is such a great approach. I salute it and I'm in love with that soundtrack.
I was heavily into Pinball Machines when I was a kid in the late 60's and early 70's. Anyone that knows anything about them knows the sound/music loop they played when no one was playing them is what drew people in to actually play them. I could walk into any store, restaurant or truck stop and I could hear these things that drew me in to see what they were.
In the biz they called that ‘attract’ mode. I noticed that places that still have arcade machines have attract mode turned off. It probably gets annoying listening to the same sounds over and over
@@NastyNatey What a shame though, but I can't blame the workers.
@@websurfer5772 I can. This generation is useless.
Fred Bear - your avatar is really cool. 🤩
This is the most ASMR documentary ever
Suzanne is such a visionary, her work is awe inspiring
She and many others, like the pixel artists from 8bit games, arcades, etc; the unsung heroes of our childhoods
This is the "Boomer" genius for which the entire gaming industry owes it's existence. Her idea to reflect the players emotion back to them in a digital sound is what activates that pleasure center in the brain of the game player, greatly enhancing the experience, and the ability to get people to give money to play a game.
Right. It's nothing like the sound of a sexually aroused woman, not at all. 🤔🤔
Bitch I just want hitmarkers
As an electrical engineer and musician….this is music to my ears.
Playing pinball machines at the arcade back in the 80's was truly blast as a kid, the designs, the colors, the sounds, the artwork and just everything about was just mindblowing and amazing. This was pure joy to watch. What a job!
You had to grow up in the 1980s to really understand. Arcades were an overdose of sensory stimuli. Fun that you just can't recreate in 2023.
LOL I love that line at the end where he says, "Women of the future will be wearing sound chips in their earrings, listening to Beethoven." -------Damn, he nailed it: it's called a wireless earbud, and they are indeed super popular.
Don't forget when she said "chips for pleasure" - Bluetooth enabled sex toys! 😁
Just replace ''Beethoven'' with ''mumble rap trash'' and it's spot on.
@@No-tc2bh damn, just out here coping?
@@greengeck0 Coping with what?
@@No-tc2bh What a fucking dork. I thought the "mumble rap" whining died out in 2019 but I guess there are still losers like you to prolong it.
LEGENDARY talent! She was always the woman of my dreams...talent, beauty, vision, skills, you name it.
Just amazing! I love seeing this!
But can she make a sandwich?
She has an amazing voice
How amazing is it to look back on this stuff. Look how badass this chick was or is. Man, RUclips is cool!
She’s got great skill and a great voice too!
"... We'll be wearing chips in our earrings listening to Beethoven..." narrator just predicted earpods 40 years early
'in the future women with soundchips in their earrings will listen to beethoven's symphony.' ...or music that was heavily inspired by the sounds that Suzanne created right here.
Absolutely amazing, this is what art is all about, finding ways to express yourself and create new unique experiences for others to enjoy. So inspiring.
What a great woman with such pleasant voice, big pinball fan here ❤🙌
she has the most pleasant voice.
😂 4:36- That other girl looking at her like... "I'll have what she's having"
Her voice is so soothing. I could fall asleep listening to her read the phone book.
Some days RUclips rocks! What a gem of a find! THX!
I love everything about this video! The sounds are so good and Suzanne is magnetic. What creativity and engineering genius
My friend has this pinball machine! Super cool to see the process how it part of it was created
That was excellent. Computers, synths and pinball. Sounds like heaven. :)
Thanks for posting this! Loved playing the Xenon pinball table back in the early 80s - Suzanne’s lovely voice and the great pinball action kept me popping in more quarter’s day after day! Love this machine!
Holy Shit I can't believe I stumbled across this. I grew up with this pinball machine. My 10-year-old bad-ass self had one hell of a kink for that sexy female robotic voice. It became one of my favorite pin-ball machines to play and I believe it's one of my first multi-ball pin ball game that I ever played, which added to the wow factor, but it was that sexy ass female robotic voice had me coming back again and again to spend all my allowance money.
WOW! My kind of video. Thanks for uploading-- I'm happy to know that a) The subject matter exists and b) that someone made a film about it.
I grew up listening to Suzanne Ciani's music (Neverland, Velocity of Love, Pianissimo), and I had no idea she did this, but it makes sense. What a gem!
Same here. I'm just seeing this now.
Amazing. Master class in music and musical sound design by a legend. Love it.
I only encountered Xenon once or twice in my pinball-inflected youth, but I remember this feeling of awe at how it all came together. There was something "clean" and shimmery about it. It was kind of sexy but not in a smutty way at all, not super-overt. "Sensual" is a good word for it. Now I see why: it was an artistic labor of love, and its sonic design was crafted by the legendary Suzanne Ciani. I love documentaries like this, and like "Classic Albums". It's an absolute joy to watch true artists and to appreciate the level of care they invest in their creative processes.
It is insane, the amount of work they had to do, to make little jingles and sound FX for a game. I remember recording to 4-track tape recorders, which was super high-tech compared to what is going on here. Now you can write an album on an ipad.
I don’t know why this video exists, but I love it.
If it had been a thing back then, this girl should have had her own ASMR channel.
"chips in their earrings"
well, airpods can certainly look like earrings, lol
Such a lovely voice.
"The idea of using short grunts and groans... I wanted it to talk back to the people playing. You know when the ball goes through the tube? It's a kind of emotional let go." Yes... yes I hear you.
She has an incredible voice!
I could listen to her read random words
This filled my heart! I've been listening to Suzanne's music for a few years, now it's all the more special. 🙏
Yep, I knew of her via music every since the late 80s. Madonna's cover of "American Pie" sounds like Suzanne Ciani's music from "Seven Waves" put to an uptempo beat.
amazing that we are here in 2022 and still enjoying this marvelous machine.
..and documentation film.
@@boostermcblast2197 indeed
My all time favorite pin ball, especially the "Try Tube shot" was fantastic
she's a soundtrack wizard
I can't belive how much satisfaction gave me this video.
her voice is indeed captivating
This lady is a goddamn genius, and I never really thought about how much work goes into designing a pinball machine. It's like magic.
I knew of Suzanne Ciani's work, and I played Xenon...but I never put the two together. It makes total sense now.
5:00 she def wanted people to feel like they were fcking the game, but didnt want to say it lol
"(...) giving us information, giving us pleasure, getting us excited..."
Yep. Players were fvcking the machine 100%
I love talented women.❤ God Bless them all
These sounds brought SO MUCH NOSTALGIA
Wow! Pinball is one heck of a game. I remember playing the same machine she was hired to compose for. It's still out there today! The artwork of that particular machine was sexy and sleek and modern. Her voice was all I wanted to hear! The clacking and pinging of those beautiful machines really REALLY let you know that you were in an arcade. I'm checking my pockets for quarters right now!
I've loved her music ever since 1990 when I discovered "Pianissimo" and 1991 with "Hotel Luna". How fun to find this video! You just have to appreciate the comparatively primitive level of technology she was using to do this. The sequencing and composing tools have since evolved to the nth degree...
I've actually played this pinball machine at a local arcade with unlimited play.
It's probably my favorite one in the whole hall next to The Addams Family pinball machine that will have the flappers do the infamous double snap from the song.
I am surprised the early voice acting industry didn't snap her up, although I guess there was hardly anything around in '80
Give props to early game engineers for paving the way for hours to program and use synthesize sounds for games. Madness.
For real
From what I can tell she was using a New England Digital Synclavier, which runs on an Able computer from 1975. Which was used to score numerous films back in the 80's and 90's, because it allowed you to pitch shift any sound and map it to middle C on a piano. So you literally played your recorded sounds on a keyboard. Memory management, and the operating system was a whole different deal, unlike I'd ever seen.