Suzanne Ciani

It’s never a bad time to focus on mental health. However, in the current climate of Covid-era fallout, such concerns are especially pertinent. That’s why Coldcut decided to create @0. The long-running British duo of Matt Black and Jon Moore are best-known for their innovative, sample-heavy electronic music...

Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic. *. On episode 228 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Suzanne Ciani....

Coldcut has released the ambient compilation @0 curated for Ninja Tune that has some of the biggest names in the genre contributing. It also brings in some producers who may not normally make ambient music like Skee Mask, Helena Hauff, ANNA or ill-esha. Then he also has some of ambient’s best contributing like Julianna Barwick, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Suzanne Ciani and Laraaji.

Dubbed by The Guardian as "America's first female synth hero", Suzanne Ciani is a pioneering artist and composer known for producing experimental new age soundscapes that boldly explore the possibilities of synthesis. Starting her career in the '70s working with Don Buchla, she faced a myriad of obstacles in becoming...

Electronic duo and founders of the renowned Ninja Tune label Coldcut have announced a new 30-track ambient compilation, featuring the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sigur Rós, Suzanne Ciani, Julianna Barwick, Obay Alsharani, and more. Titled @0 and released under Ninja Tune’s Ahead Of Our Time sublabel, the compilation will only...

Coldcut has announced a new ambient and classical compilation album @0 that will arrive next month on Coldcut’s imprint Ahead Of Our Time. Among those featured include Julianna Barwick, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Suzanne Ciani, Laraaji, ANNA and Helena Hauff, while Coldcut will remix Imogen Heap for the project. A big idea...

Electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani has announced a new album that captures a recent immersive Buchla modular synth live performance. Ciani says that she’s “Ecstatic to announce the quadraphonic vinyl release of Improvisation on Four Sequences Live at Festival Antigel, on my label Atmospheric. This is the first release on Atmospheric in 25 years.”

One of the most unique avant-ambient albums of the year, Milan is a bracing and expansive collaboration between generations of musical adventurers. Conceived and led by Detroit-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Alister Fawnwoda (who has previously worked with Detroit techno icon Omar S), the project includes major contributions from legendary 5 time Grammy-nominated synthesizer pioneer Suzanne Ciani (who was recently featured prominently in the acclaimed documentary ‘Sisters With Transistors’), and Grammy-winning pedal steel maestro Greg Leisz.

Buchla Now features music from Marcia Bassett, Suzanne Ciani, Dan Deacon, Jonathan Fitoussi, Steve Horelick, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Hans Tammen, and compilation curator Todd Barton. Ciani once said of Don Buchla that his “unique mindset allowed him to be outside the popular notion of what electronic music was.” Each of...

Deep below Morrison Hall, quadraphonic artist Suzanne Ciani sat in a soundproof recording studio reciting strings of non sequiturs with varying intonations to train a deepfake program. Researchers and engineers used Ciani’s non sequiturs to generate training data for a speech synthesizer program, or a deepfake, that will pre-record messages...

With the likes of Apple pushing the concept, spatial audio is fresh again. KamranV connects past, present, and future and talks to us about how we can get quadraphonic when we work, in advance of a free workshop online this Friday. Spatial Sound workshop by KamranV, with EXP_. Friday, June...