Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani er en amerikansk musiker, lyddesigner, komponist og plateselskap-leder, født 4. juni 1946.

Hun fikk tidlig suksess på 1970-tallet med sin elektroniske musikk og sine lydeffekter for filmer og TV-reklamer. Karrieren hennes har inkludert verk med kvadrafonisk lyd. Hennes suksess med elektronisk musikk har fått henne kalt "Diva of the Diode" og "Amerikas første kvinnelige synthhelt".

Hun har blitt nominert til en Grammy Award for beste New Age-album fem ganger, Neverland (1988), Hotel Luna (1991), Dream Suite (1996), Pianissimo II (1997), Turning (2000)

Buchla Concerts 1975 fikk en 39. plass på Pitchfork sin liste over 50 beste ambient album, The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time.

Priser og utmerkelser 

 A2IM Independent Icon Award, 2020
 Moog Innovation Award, 2017
 Pinball Expo Hall of Fame, 2013
 Keyboard Magazine's Hall of Fame, 2012
 Nominee, Grammy Award for Best New Age Album: Neverland (1988), Hotel Luna (1991), Dream Suite (1996), Pianissimo II (1997), Turning (2000)
 Best New Age Keyboardist, Keyboard magazine, 1992
 Lifetime Achievement Award (Granny), Women in Audio Section of the Audio and Engineering Society, 1997
 Winner, American Federation of Independent Music (Indie), Silver Ship, 2006
 Most Valuable Synthesizer Player Award, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 1987
 Clio Awards, Excellence in Advertising, 1977–1989
 Bronze Lion Award for Excellence in Advertising, International Advertising Film Festival, 1985

Diskografi

Solo 
Studio album

 Voices of Packaged Souls (1970)
 Seven Waves (1982)
 The Velocity of Love (1986)
 Neverland (1988)
 History of My Heart (1989)
 Pianissimo (1990)
 Hotel Luna (1991)
 Dream Suite (1994)
 Pianissimo II (1996)
 Turning (1999)
 Pianissimo III (2001)
 Silver Ship (2005)
 Logo Presentation Reels 1985 (2012)
 "Help, Help, The Globolinks!" (2017)
 Flowers of Evil (2019)
 Denali (2020)

Live album

 Suzanne Ciani and The Wave Live! (1997)
 Logo Presentation Reels 1985 (2012)
 Buchla Concerts 1975 (2016)
 LIVE Quadraphonic (2018)
 Live Buchla at Machines in Music (2018)
 Improvisation on Four Sequences at Festival Antigel (2020)
 A Sonic Womb: Live Buchla performance at Lapsus (2021)

Samlealbum

 The Private Music of Suzanne Ciani (1992)
 Meditations for Dreams, Relaxation, and Sleep (2002)
 Pure Romance (2003)
 Lixiviation (Ciani/Musica Inc. 1969–1985) (2012)
 A Life in Waves (2020)

Medvirkende på andres album 

 Starland Vocal Band – Starland Vocal Band (1976)
 Philippé Wynne - Starting All Over (1977)
 Elliott Randall - Elliott Randall's New York (1977)
 Meco - Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk (1977)
 Art Farmer and Joe Henderson – Yama (1979)
 Cindy & Roy - Feel It (1979)
 Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance (1979)
 Alien – Sons of the Universe (1979)
 Yusef Lateef – In a Temple Garden (1979)
 Steve Hackett – Spectral Mornings (1979)
 Fuse One – Fuse One (1980)
 Mike Rutherford - Smallcreep's Day (1980)
 Goldstar - The Future Is Now (1980)
 Various – Fame: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture (1980)
 Ray Barretto - La Cuna (1981)
 Steven Kindler – Across a Rainbow Sea (1990)
 Various – A Very Green Christmas (1997)
 Patti Austin – Body Language (2003)
 Jane Weaver – The Silver Globe (2013)
 Suzanne Ciani & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy (2016)

DVD 

 1997 Suzanne Ciani and The Wave Live!
 2008 Natura Poetica
 2008 Galapagos: A Musical Odyssey
 2020 "A Life in Waves" Blu-Ray

Publikasjoner 

 1991 Suzanne Ciani: New Age Piano (Hal Leonard)
 1995 Suzanne Ciani: Dream Songs (Hal Leonard)
 1999 Suzanne Ciani: Turning (Hal Leonard)
 2007 The Best of Suzanne Ciani (Hal Leonard)

Filmmusikk 

 1981 The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Universal Pictures)
 1986 Mother Teresa, (Petrie Productions)
 1986 Cradle of wolves (Mexican novel - Televisa Productions)
 2001 Mother Teresa: The Legacy (Petrie Productions)

Referanser

Eksterne lenker 
 
 
 

Komponister fra USA
Musikere fra USA
Ambient
Elektronisk musikk
New Age-musikere