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'Synths are my best friends' with Suzanne Ciani, Marie Davidson, Sui Zhen, and Lorenzo Senni

Suzanne Ciani, Marie Davidson, Sui Zhen, and Lorenzo Senni discuss the importance of human interactions with machines, and how they first discovered their beloved synthesisers.

Legendary electronic artist Suzanne Ciani welcomes Marie Davidson, Sui Zhen, and Lorenzo Senni.

Suzanne is based in San Francisco and has been nominated for five Grammy Awards. She was the first woman to score a major Hollywood film, and was the first female voice to be used on a computer game. Marie Davidson is a French-Canadian musician, and one of the world鈥檚 most exciting electronic producers. Her most recent record, Working Class Woman, considers 鈥渢he stresses and strains of operating within the spheres of dance music and club culture鈥. Lorenzo Senni is a Milan-based electronic music producer, composer and visual artist, and has composed for cinema and theatre. He has even created an installation designed to comfort people in the intensive care unit of a hospital. And Sui Zhen is an experimental pop and performance artist from Melbourne, Australia, whose work focuses on the intersections between human life and technology.

Joining from different timezones across the planet, they鈥檒l dicuss what it鈥檚 like to release an album, the importance of human interactions with machines, and how they first discovered their beloved synths.

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39 minutes

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Suzanne Ciani (Credit: Dan Wilton), Lorenzo Senni (Credit: John Divola), Sui Zhen (Credit: Agnieszka Chabros) and Marie Davidson (Credit: John Londono)

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  • Sat 25 Jul 2020 11:06GMT
  • Sun 26 Jul 2020 19:06GMT

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