Recording: Suzanne Ciani

Artist: Suzanne Ciani

Song: [edited excerpt]

Recorded at The Revue Cinema (Intersection (Night 1)/The Music Gallery's Departures Series, August 31, 2018).

Suzanne Ciani - [edited excerpt]

This year's Intersection Festival started with a genuine happening, with this presentation of modular synth legend Suzanne Ciani. The night began with a screening of A Life In Waves, the recent documentary tracking her several careers (electronics sound pioneer for TV commercials, leading New Age musician) and re-discovery as a sonic forerunner whose early work is only truly being appreciated now. That, plus a Q + A session hosted by Katie Jensen, gave the audience a sense of Ciani's engaging personality before she played a live set for Buchla synthesizer in quadraphonic sound, which was grounded by inspiration from birds, winds and waves of all kinds.