click here for the video on Gearwire. It's a good one. It of course touches on her introduction to electronic music at MIT followed by meeting Don Buchla and going to work for him. She talks about how she was very committed to non-keyboard synths and how she thought keyboards were an inappropriate interface for synthesis. Fascinating stuff. And... She pronounces Buchla, Boo-kla. So much for those that told me it was Buck-la. ;) I can finally go back to pronouncing it the way I had been all these years... life is better.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Suzanne Ciani on Gearwire
click here for the video on Gearwire. It's a good one. It of course touches on her introduction to electronic music at MIT followed by meeting Don Buchla and going to work for him. She talks about how she was very committed to non-keyboard synths and how she thought keyboards were an inappropriate interface for synthesis. Fascinating stuff. And... She pronounces Buchla, Boo-kla. So much for those that told me it was Buck-la. ;) I can finally go back to pronouncing it the way I had been all these years... life is better.
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Well, Don does pronounce is closer to Book-La.
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm talking about the Electric Music Box, I tend to say Boo-kla, though.
I'm firmly in the Moog rhymes with rogue camp, though.
hmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteno wedding ring
I've always said Boo'-kla too.
Like THAT matters.
lol
"Ciani says: SILVER SHIP is a metaphor for my willingness to set sail to find beauty again after the difficult post-divorce shipwrecked years."
ReplyDeleteaha!
So, doesn't she qualify for synth babe status now??
perhaps, goddess?
muse?
I know, she's in a class all her own, right?
Don says both Book-la and Boo-kla..
ReplyDeleteThe correct pronunciation is Book-la... Don calls himsel Book-la tho I've heard him refer to his instruments as Boo-klas. strange.
we had a conversation about this.
buck-la is just wrong.
Blacet is with an 'a' as in apple, correct?
ReplyDeleteI dont understand why people on the extremes point fingers at everyone else.
ReplyDeleteThe keyboard moves synthesis into a whole other world, that obviously didn't stop her from using one, nor did it stop her doing things the "old way" either.
You hear the same thing about the BBC engineers leaving the radiophonic studio because they weren't using tape loops any more. Nobody stopped them from getting a farlight and doing it that way.
I just dont get arguments like that because in effect you're making yourself obsolete. There's no reason you can't incorporate modern techniques along with the old stuff.
Never pronounced it, but if I were I'd of probably said Butch-ula. Every time I've read the name, thats what I've said in my head. Thanks Matrix for letting me sound less stupid if I ever get one and need to tell someone what I've got.
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ReplyDeleteUpgraded to synth babe.
ReplyDelete"Upgraded to synth babe."
ReplyDeleteYea!!!
>I just dont get arguments like that because in effect you're making yourself obsolete. There's no reason you can't incorporate modern techniques along with the old stuff.
ReplyDeleteThere is a difference between being an artist and being a producer of things that resemble art.
Im not following your meaning..
ReplyDeleteshe definitely a synth babe
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