Suzanne Ciani

Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come.

The film, subsidized by the Tenerife Island Council, explores the relationship between the logic of the universe and musical language. In this work, Suzanne Ciani, a pioneer of electronic music, travels to the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) to investigate this groundbreaking scientific research. This pioneering discovery reveals that spiral galaxies rotate with the same rhythmic pattern and that their different galactic disks spin in harmony, musically connected to one another, like the instruments of an orchestra. With the help of musicians from different continents, Ciani sets out to compose the score of the cosmos in an unprecedented dialogue between music and astronomy.

Explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.