‘A Life in Waves’
- SurvivorNetTV’s new film, A Life in Waves, explores the life of revolutionary electronic music composer Suzanne Ciani, who is a breast cancer survivor.
- Ciani is a five-time Grammy nominated composer, recording artist and pioneer in the electronic music world.
- Her story is one of resilience and trailblazing; she changed the sound of music and films forever.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and whether you’re battling this cancer or in remission, you should watch this inspiring film about a woman who’s considered a pioneer by those who came after her. Why is her story important? She’s a breast cancer survivor.
Welcome to SurvivorNetTV’s showing of A Life in Waves, the story of Suzanne Ciani’s life and her extraordinary body of work; you may not know her name, but you’ve definitely heard her music.
Ciani is a pioneer, as many people interviewed for this piece tell us; her electronic music played on pinball machines, soda commercials and on some of the most iconic recordings of the 1980s. If you watched television, went to the movies or listened to the radio in the ’80s and ’90s (which we are pretty sure everyone here did), you’ve heard her music.
“She’s a pioneer,” Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, an electronic musician, tells us in this film, “the fact that she took an instrument that was really built for future sound or future music and applied that in the most popular contents that you could think of — advertising — was an amazing and subversive thing.”
Ciani, 75, is a five-time Grammy-nominated composer, recording artist and breast cancer survivor. Her story is one of resilience and trailblazing; she changed the sound of music and films forever.
Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process.
Sydney Schaefer is a staff reporter at SurvivorNet in New York City. Read More
‘A Life in Waves’
- SurvivorNetTV’s new film, A Life in Waves, explores the life of revolutionary electronic music composer Suzanne Ciani, who is a breast cancer survivor.
- Ciani is a five-time Grammy nominated composer, recording artist and pioneer in the electronic music world.
- Her story is one of resilience and trailblazing; she changed the sound of music and films forever.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and whether you’re battling this cancer or in remission, you should watch this inspiring film about a woman who’s considered a pioneer by those who came after her. Why is her story important? She’s a breast cancer survivor.
Welcome to SurvivorNetTV’s showing of A Life in Waves, the story of Suzanne Ciani’s life and her extraordinary body of work; you may not know her name, but you’ve definitely heard her music.
Read More Ciani is a pioneer, as many people interviewed for this piece tell us; her electronic music played on pinball machines, soda commercials and on some of the most iconic recordings of the 1980s. If you watched television, went to the movies or listened to the radio in the ’80s and ’90s (which we are pretty sure everyone here did), you’ve heard her music.
“She’s a pioneer,” Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, an electronic musician, tells us in this film, “the fact that she took an instrument that was really built for future sound or future music and applied that in the most popular contents that you could think of — advertising — was an amazing and subversive thing.”
Ciani, 75, is a five-time Grammy-nominated composer, recording artist and breast cancer survivor. Her story is one of resilience and trailblazing; she changed the sound of music and films forever.
Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process.
Sydney Schaefer is a staff reporter at SurvivorNet in New York City. Read More
