MOVING SOUNDS FESTIVAL | ‘DAME ELECTRIC’: SUZANNE CIANI
The ACFNY is proud to present legendary Buchla synthesizer and analog electronic music pioneer, SUZANNE CIANI as the headliner of Moving Sounds’ Wednesday double-bill concert at Roulette. Suzanne Ciani has not performed solo in New York since 1975. This event is part of the festival’s aim to highlight, investigate and showcase this year’s theme Dame Electric, focusing on female analog electronic musicians from Austria and the U.S. Opening for Ciani will be the first-ever collaboration between local electronic heroins, Antenes (U.S.) and Electric Indigo (AT).
ABOUT MOVING SOUNDS
This year’s Moving Sounds Festival, titled Dame Electric, was conceived by New York/Austrian musician, educator, and curator, Dorit Chrysler. Dame Electric centers on pioneer female performers of analog electronic music from Austria and the US. It brings together different backgrounds and generations of artists and composers to actively exchange and collaborate. In addition to concerts and live visual performances in venues across NYC, the six-day festival includes workshops, a panel discussion and a special screening of the extended trailer for the upcoming documentary film on legendary pioneer analog electronic musician, Suzanne Ciani.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Five-time Grammy Award nominee Suzanne Ciani is a composer, electronic music pioneer, and neo-classical recording artist. Her creations have been featured in countless commercials, video games, and film programs. Looking back on a career of more than 30 years, she has released 15 solo albums and been recognized as Keyboard Magazine’s “New Age Keyboardist of the Year”. Ciani has produced a broad expressional array of music, provided the voice and sounds for Bally’s groundbreaking “Xenon” pinball machine, played concerts all over the globe, and carved out a niche as one of the most creatively successful female composers in the world.
DJ, producer and electronics artist Antenes operates a laboratory of self-made sequencers and modular synthesizers built in the name of rhythmic, sonic, and spatial exploration. Tracing the lineage of synthesizer operation to vintage telephone equipment and inspired by the Buchla 100, her curious studio discipline of manipulating repurposed switchboards was fueled by the desire to breathe new life into long-silenced machines, transforming signal paths through which voices once traveled into sequences that burst with percussive energy and evolving textures, bouncing sound through sound like so many distant AM radio stations on a late-night drive. Her 2015 solo production debut, The Track of a Storm EP on L.I.E.S. reveals three tracks of otherworldly techno infused with “lazer shot synthwork,” “ghostly noise layers,” “muscular bass shapes and sparking percussions,” appearing on the 2015 best-of lists for JUNO and FACT magazine. A Brooklyn resident by way of Chicago, Antenes’ eclectic vinyl DJ sets dive into acid-laced techno, shimmering electro, shadowy atmospheres and beyond, with a particular ear for odd percussions and syncopations.
Electric Indigo is a DJ, composer and musician with a performing career in 38 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Representing an intelligent and distinguished interpretation of techno and electronic music, she creates pieces for concert spaces, clubs and sound installations. Occasionally her producing activity also involves stage plays and short films. In her compositions and live performances, she emphasizes the spatial-temporal placement of subtly elaborated sounds and structures, often generated from speech recordings. Electric Indigo shuttles between Vienna and Berlin.
More information:
www.movingsoundsfestival.org
For tickets, please visit: www.roulette.org
With the generous support of Moog Music
VENUE
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave,
Brooklyn, New York 11217