Suzanne Ciani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4593D44Lid4&feature=kp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeYsZHCQwXM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaihxeClDFM

yeah she's dope

i love the comp that came out on finders keepers / b music a couple years ago

this is pretty amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZscRHkLMt0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8O5HPvfsg

woah, no idea she was on letterman

woah, that's the first time i'd seen a clip form the daytime show he had. incredible how much of the template for late night is there.

her persona is 100% chill vibes

saw her do a thing w/ demdike stare last year and it was pretty sad

that comp late great's talking about is great though

sad?

her persona is 100% chill vibes

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She's been heavily into the "music for massage therapists" scene for decades, but her stuff is far better than most of that stuff.

the 'Voices Of Packaged Souls' record, also on Finders Keepers, is great too.

When my wife worked for her distributor, I talked to her at a conference -- asked a bunch of questions about her '70s session work, etc. -- while my toddler-age son played with her colorful pants. She was incredibly nice. Years later, that Omni clip blew me away. Had no idea she was behind Xenon.

Pretty big news here – her first commercially released Buchla music IIRC:

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2016/03/23/suzanne-cianis-buchla-concerts-1975-the-feminine-alternative-to-silver-apples-of-the-moon/#more-70164

Suzanne Ciani Lecture (Montréal 2016) | Red Bull Music Academy

Also posted on Hulu thread, there's a Ciani doc called A Life In Waves

I saw her play last weekend! It was pretty amazing. She had her Buchla 200e(?) and a couple iPads, running a quadraphonic speaker setup, we all sat on the floor and she jammed for like an hour and a half.

Jealous!

This is a great doc! Very strong vaporware vibes in the segments featuring her commercial and new age work.

it was totally different from what I was expecting, I'd only heard her new age piano stuff

She has some cool synth improv albums. She put out a collaborative improv album with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith a couple years ago, and also released a recording of a solo Buchla performance from 1975.

Had nothing to do tonight, so I went to see Life in Waves knowing literally nothing about her. (I vaguely recognized the name--maybe she's on the Windham Hill compilation I have?) The interesting thing is she was there for a Q&A followed by a concert--didn't know about either, and only noticed her sitting in the back of the theatre just as I was exiting. I turned around and stayed for some of the Q&A; the concert, obviously, was a separate admission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZscRHkLMt0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDgc7I0xnwQ

xpost with the actress thread

https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/press-room/barbican-announces-actress-x-suzanne-ciani-present-concrete-waves

wow

This is really strong imo

https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/improvisation-on-four-sequences-live-at-week-end-fest

wow yeah

As noted elsewhere, Finders Keepers has wrapped up; Ciani now has a separate Bandcamp page:

https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/

Just rewatched the clip with Letterman and was taken aback a bit until I realized it was from a morning show he had early on.

Probably saw it at the time, then! I remember watching a lot of episodes of that.

Finders Keepers wrapped up? I didn't know this, and over the past few years I've bought tons ..

Finders Keepers Records S/D

Yeah, so I see. Ah well...