Issue 117 PDF

This month's Electronic Sound cover star is the supremely talented Suzanne Ciani, whose long and intense connection with modular synthesis started after meeting Don Buchla in the late 1960s.

Ciani soon became obsessed with the Buchla 100 and 200 systems, taking a particular interest in how the voltage-controlled quadrophonic capabilities enabled her to move sounds around a room. More than five decades on, while she has utilised a huge range of synths during her career, the Buchla is still her main instrument of choice. She has produced some truly magical music over the years, earning no less than five Grammy nominations along the way, but it's not enough to describe her work as being in another league. It's also from another dimension. 

We have lots of other great interviews too, with Propaganda pair Ralf Dörper and Michael Mertens introducing a new version of the band, Ron Geesin revealing the influences on his eclectic output, and Erland Cooper explaining why he buried a reel-to-reel tape on the island of Orkney. Plus SETI, Miki Yui, Kampire, Molchat Doma, Veryan, Strafe, Noël, Photay and Unicorn Ship Explosion, which is not a name you'll easily forget. They have an album called ’There’s A Rhinoceros In The Mega Church’. You have been warned.