3-2-1 Contact "Noisy/Quiet: Music" (1980)
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- Synthesist Suzanne Ciani explains how synthesizers work to series host Lisa. From the first season of the Children's Television Workshop series "3-2-1 Contact" 1980.
Segment producer and director: Riva Freifeld
Editor: Mili Bonsignori
Never delete this video, please.
Her voice is hypnotic. I could listen to the tone and timbre of her voice all day.
she sounds very much like the "little fluffy clouds" girl from that orb song
One of the reasons I loved this as a kid -- and this is probably true of most PBS shows -- is that it was smart people being very patient and kind to the kids watching.
I've never heard a better explanation of synthesis for the uninitiated! So in depth, yet so concise! I don't think I could answer any of those questions that well
I could listen to that all day.
Her voice is so soothing
I appreciate that she speaks so simply about the circuitry and so eloquently about the music. I actually believe her when she says she plays the thing like a cellist. You're welcome dubsteppers.
1980 was the Oberheim OB-X and SCI Prophet -5 brand new :D Love the backflash. :)
Both the content and sounds in this are absolute pure gold...
Thanks to Sesame Workshop and its wonderful programs, I developed a lifelong interest in electronic music and sound design. I remember this clip so well and always waited for it when the first season of “3-2-1 Contact” kept repeating. Peace.
prime sample material here!
Those instruments (syntheizers,oscilloscope, and working with them, can get you mesmerized. And you feel a mixture between playing, and dicovering something new when you're experimenting, and fiddling around. And it doesn't matter if it's 1980 or today. I just love those electronic sounds....
I almost certainly saw this as a kid in 1980. 3-2-1 Contact was one of my fave shows.
Great video. They ask simple questions because its for children's tv show. Besides, most people who shit on synthesizer music don't even have the knowledge a child would after watching this segment.
Fantastic classic synth music. This is the sound of my childhood.
Suzanne has been nominated for five Grammys over the course of her career. Looks like she's still working. Glad to hear that. She seemed so nice in this.
All thanks, and praises to the great internet, for bringing this to me!
I loved synths back when this was made, but had not access to it.
Now all these years later, I finally am able to see it, on CZcams.
Very cool.
Thanks for sharing.
She sounded calm, elegant, intelligent and composed; a high level of consciousness. It is both unfair and unlikely that she was stoned. Highly creative people don't need to get stoned. Frank Zappa, in his book mentioned that he never got stoned, despite his reputation. The passion to create burns bright in some people. I also appreciate the avant-garde feel of early electronic music. Electronic music offers infinite possibilities, but today it's mostly relegated to a few simple beats.
Man i remember watching this one I was 9 years old and it had such an impact on me that as of today i have A Moog modular system, other modulars, oberheims etc synthesizers and compose music. all because of that episode of Contact 321. I cannot believe I found it on youtube.
Love it! I used to watch 3-2-1-Contact as a kid, and I really don't remember this one...too bad! Suzanne you're still amazing, and I have all your albums from this period... :)
1:26 " What is sound ? " I love this video !!! These people were far ahead of their time.
Ciani is pure genius.
I bet those 2 did it.
That was wonderful.Two beautiful women enjoying dreamy analogue gear.
We're gonna fire one up near the end of this.
I remember seeing this on TV when it aired!
The theme to 321 Contact still pops into my head from time to time. . .one of my favorite shows as a wee one.
I imagine both our hands touching the same patch cable and we fall in love, smoke weed, and put on some mort garrison
A true quality like rare document with suzanne Ciani, a specialist of the Buchla, and one of the first girl sound pionier for sure.Thanks
This was one of my favorite shows as a kid.
two angels in electronic music heavan
She has a ASMR voice.
+Trump / Lashley 2016 Agreed. I was hoping for a light Italian accent, but I have no right to be demanding.
Kudos to the Buchla Music Easel actually staying in tune during the performance. ;)
nothing but love for this video!
i wish i could find the full episodes of the older version of this show like this episode on CZcams. thats the one i used to watch.
Blissed out!
Love the engineer saying "one more time?'
The music in this episode is SICK. I need to finish up the time machine so I can go back and live in a perpetual 1980. I would live in that studio if I could... I love those colors.
I LOVE Suzanne Ciani. And yeah, ole girl is blazed out of her miiiind. I would be too if I was surrounded by all of those synths in 1980. *drool*
80's TV !! education for kids... synthesizers !!!!
The best video ever
On a serious note. LOADS of great gear in that room.
Her Voice though..... SHE. IS. STONED. !! awesome video though.
I think she's high from dopamine [her own]
I wouldn't be so quick to question her sobriety. Over time people's speech patterns, pronunciations, voice inflection ect. change. Look up those old news reel films from the 40's, how nasely they sounded.
xiaochicash cheers i stand corected. Dopamine is real, and everything else.
4:41 It's a fantastic live sound demonstration and these women are too. Thanks for posting ;)
Thanks for sharing this great footage :)
She sounds like Shelley Duvall in The Shining.
actually quite close
And she composed the Columbia Pictures jingle from 1976-81 and the Columbia Pictures Television jingle from 1976-88.
Love this classic!
oh how i love this!
just beautiful
amazing clip
Suzanne's Seven Waves is out of this world while still on this world.웃ツ
cool; love these older videos on synthesizers
I always knew I loved synths because of educational videos. it's the sound of a future pasy
*past
I saw this a kid. I forgot about it until just now when I watched it. I really like synthesizers now. I wonder if this had anything to do with it.
Nathaniel Scott yup. i love the sound of vintage synths. i was born in 79. we grew up with these sounds. it was everywhere. the tv station intros and bumpers, the main st electric parade, game shows themes and sounds. its part of the sound of my youth. i bet you there was another episode of mr rigers mr wizard that taught this
I have lots of respect for Pbs now that I am 30 years old now and why can they bring this back on the show, cause I really did pay attrition when I was young
❤ Brilliant! I will share it ~ thanks for posting this ❤
This music speaks to me.
*That* must be why I loved this programme so much, but was too young to understand why.
Imagine being there when those synths were all brand new!! Ha ha, "can you play guitar?" And she says yes and then 'one pluck'. Well played ;0)
i have a crush on Suzanne Ciani circa 1980
this is very smart and very sexy...on many levels. ...and pitches.
Sound @ 6.47 is amazing!
Wow beautiful!
I think I'm in love with her
Suz and Lisa have some sexual tension here. I suspect this session ended in some snogging.
That's exactly what I sensed! LOL
Wonderful!
Vern's hair is magnificent.
i LOVE HER
There are some lines obviously put in there for the kiddies ("What is sound? What's pitch?), but overall, this is still a pretty good intro to analog synthesizers. And I want that studio with all those instruments!
-3-3-3
Very attractive analog stuff initiation...
So early 80's atmospheres...
With two beautifull women and a lucky sound ingeneer !! :-)
It s speaking to me :-)
Ms Ciani looks and sounds SOOOOOO stoned!
These two seem like they just blazed a doobie.
I like Lisa's comment about the Buchla, "This looks like a big toy". Actually, it DOES kind of look like a big toy, with the brightly coloured knobs and patchcords.
My kind of 'girls' talk'! :)
Wow, she was even on an early Letterman show -- watch?v=fZscRHkLMt0.
And she was involved in a Star Wars disco record (Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk), which I was definitely familiar with as a kid and just happened to hear a few days ago for the first time in years. Crazy coincidences.
Look at the Oberheim OB-X synthesizer.
And a Buchla modular synth with what looks like 100 and 200 series modules.
Very Euphoric
I think I'm in love ...... with Verne the sound technician
sexy synth sounds...and sexy senoritas... can it get any better than this...priceless
Jeez i need another spliff after watching this....
this is so beautiful
I'm just going to say it- Suzanne Ciani was hot back in the day,
Also, I strongly recommend her album Velocity of Love.
Snow sounds...or birds....or...What were the skies like when you were growing up..."Blue Skies" ORB totally in this. That woman's face at the beginning she's on something..like...wheeeee...
so eloquent!
@RivaProductions (Riva Freifield): This segment you produced and directed is fantastic! Thank you for sharing it. Is there any better quality version still existing? If there isn't one digitized yet, I hope you do so soon.
very cool
Es una nueva realidad musical
damn. suzanne looks high as a kite
I was in love of yellow haired girl is really beauty
Definitely Jade East, from 'Up in Smoke'. Love the dude's hairdo - like the Jack of Diamonds. Them dang hippies and their new-fangled gizmos! Looks like an old operator's switchboard. the only sexual tension in the video was between me and Lisa.
I am in love
all synths should come with a fried chicken patch
Lol. :D
Cool!
@Syntox It's a toy for adults who want to have some good clean fun. :-) Seriously, I've thought that if I ever get the money to put together a modular synth, I want to have the front panels painted bright colours to make it look more festive and child-like.
Teachin' em kids about arpcore.
Boards probably watched this as kids, ROYGBIV sounds like the opening theme.
I wish I could've learned to make stuff like this.
you still can ,,, you just need ALLOT OF MONEY
Start with something free, but powerful, like Sunvox. It's a modular synth program that you can write whole songs with.
yet not an analog modular synth , fun to learn on but you will never really learn it until you get a real one because of all the real world variations that come into play when making sound . air quality temp the circuit its plugged into , speakers ect ...
Sunvox is still a nice start, though, I think.. powerful and FREE!
A Microbrute would be my recommendation for entry hardware, at this point.
That patch bay can save a lot of money if they branch into modular later.
If not, it's still a capable synth, with knob per function (great for learning.)
@vboy13 hahaha yeah a real nice "comb over" and "half long" on the sides hahaha
I'm sure she knows more than it looks like she knows. Remember they were doing a show for elementary school students who wouldn't know any of this stuff.
I really wish to have a Buchla analog synthesiser...
70's and 80's women are so fine.
Yaaay!
Sure miss the pure analog synths now we have virtual junk
WV591 bullshit. Analog synths are being made now. Digital synths are great too.
Suzanne Ciani has a Wikipedia entry and a CZcams channel!