SUZANNE CIANI
WORLD MINIMAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
Suzanne Ciani Buchla-synth
Synthesizer pioneer Suzanne Ciani will come to Amsterdam for the World Minimal Music Festival. Ciani has earned legendary status for her Buchla synthesizer concerts, which are as experimental as they are accessible.
Even those who don’t know her name must know her work: Suzanne Ciani created the famous sound of the Coca-Cola bottle, which traveled all over the world. 40 years ago she was one of the first to explore the then futuristic buttons and plugs of the Buchla, pioneering today’s omnipresent live electronics.
The Italian Ciani was trained in classical music in the US, but dedicated herself to sound design in the 1970s. She created music and sound for games, movies and advertisements. She became world famous in the 1980s with soothing spaced music such as The Velocity of Love and Seven Waves, followed in the 1990s by romantic fireside piano music CDs. Ciani was nominated five times for a Grammy in the Best New Age Album category.
World Minimal Music Festival
April 5-9 at Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ
Five
days dedicated to minimal music: hypnotizing rhythms and
trance-inducing melodies by great American pioneers such as La Monte
Young, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Philip Glass. The program includes
Dutch music as well, such as Louis Andriessen’s magnum opus De Materie.
The Bimhuis restaurant
is open after the concert (reservations via
020-7882158).