3-2-1 Contact "Noisy/Quiet: Music" (1980)
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- 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
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.
Never delete this video, please.
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.
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.
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.
Ciani is pure genius.
I bet those 2 did it.
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....
That was wonderful.Two beautiful women enjoying dreamy analogue gear.
1980 was the Oberheim OB-X and SCI Prophet -5 brand new :D Love the backflash. :)
Her voice is so soothing
I could listen to that all day.
Both the content and sounds in this are absolute pure gold...
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.
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.
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.
Wand
Kudos to the Buchla Music Easel actually staying in tune during the performance. ;)
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 UA-cam.
Very cool.
Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic classic synth music. This is the sound of my childhood.
I almost certainly saw this as a kid in 1980. 3-2-1 Contact was one of my fave shows.
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... :)
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
The theme to 321 Contact still pops into my head from time to time. . .one of my favorite shows as a wee one.
This was one of my favorite shows as a kid.
amazing clip
Thanks for sharing this great footage :)
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.
nothing but love for this video!
4:41 It's a fantastic live sound demonstration and these women are too. Thanks for posting ;)
Blissed out!
Love the engineer saying "one more time?'
❤ Brilliant! I will share it ~ thanks for posting this ❤
1:26 " What is sound ? " I love this video !!! These people were far ahead of their time.
prime sample material here!
i wish i could find the full episodes of the older version of this show like this episode on UA-cam. thats the one i used to watch.
Love this classic!
The best video ever
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*
oh how i love this!
just beautiful
My kind of 'girls' talk'! :)
cool; love these older videos on synthesizers
two angels in electronic music heavan
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 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
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.
Look at the Oberheim OB-X synthesizer.
This music speaks to me.
Wow beautiful!
I always knew I loved synths because of educational videos. it's the sound of a future pasy
*past
Wonderful!
*That* must be why I loved this programme so much, but was too young to understand why.
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
Suzanne's Seven Waves is out of this world while still on this world.웃ツ
On a serious note. LOADS of great gear in that room.
Sound @ 6.47 is amazing!
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.
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!
80's TV !! education for kids... synthesizers !!!!
70's and 80's women are so fine.
i LOVE HER
I imagine both our hands touching the same patch cable and we fall in love, smoke weed, and put on some mort garrison
@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.
all synths should come with a fried chicken patch
Lol. :D
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.
this is very smart and very sexy...on many levels. ...and pitches.
Vern's hair is magnificent.
I think I'm in love with her
-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 :-)
brings a whole new level to synth porn.
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.
very cool
i have a crush on Suzanne Ciani circa 1980
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.
Very Euphoric
Cool!
so eloquent!
And a Buchla modular synth with what looks like 100 and 200 series modules.
Es una nueva realidad musical
sexy synth sounds...and sexy senoritas... can it get any better than this...priceless
I think I'm in love ...... with Verne the sound technician
@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.
this is so beautiful
Yaaay!
I am in love
Jeez i need another spliff after watching this....
Ms Ciani looks and sounds SOOOOOO stoned!
@vboy13 hahaha yeah a real nice "comb over" and "half long" on the sides hahaha
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.
Could anyone tell me if the music playing at the very beginning is part of a (Ciani) music piece, and if so what the name of that piece is?
I really love that warm sound, i want to have.
These two seem like they just blazed a doobie.
I really wish to have a Buchla analog synthesiser...
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...
I noticed it, too! I don't understand why you got negative votes for stating something that was so evident...
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.)
@Oldworldman Yeah, that bird is gone with the wind.
I was in love of yellow haired girl is really beauty
Suzanne Ciani has a Wikipedia entry and a UA-cam channel!
Teachin' em kids about arpcore.
Boards probably watched this as kids, ROYGBIV sounds like the opening theme.
Why can't they make synths that sound so warm and pleasing these days?
michael stein they do
but what about the engineers hair?
that and the modular buchla are jaw droppers
oh and by the way
i was picturing having a 3 some with liz and suezanne after the take……