Record label Decca (also notorious for being the label that turned down that little known beat combo the Beatles) told her they didn’t employ female studio engineers. She eventually made her way into the BBC as a studio manager and moved over to the Radiophonic Workshop impressing the manager, Desmond Briscoe, with her studio skills, degree in mathematics and musical ability.

If anything, being a female synthesiser player made it harder to be accepted. When I went to join the musicians’ union in New York, they panicked. They said, ‘No! What is this?! No!’ They thought I was going to replace the entire band.

Yet although her sounds were being heard by millions of people, there was still widespread suspicion towards her choice of instrument. In much the same way that drummers feared that Roger Linn’s electronic drum machines would make them redundant, session musicians regarded synth players very warily – especially someone who looked as striking as Ciani.

Ciani felt that no composers she had come across – male, female or otherwise – were really pushing the limits of what was possible with synthesisers. They were fixated on recreating songs from the past – no one was trying to make music for the future.

she began making jingles, soundbeds and corporate logos for everyone from AT&T and General Electric to Merrill Lynch and Clairol. She even created sound effects for kung fu flicks and a B–movie horror film about a nymphomaniac who has sex with snakes. Eventually, the Buchla 200 was hers. 

I was writing traditional music and trying to convince them that electronic music was a viable, important, useful and incredible medium.

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She didn't just create music either, but used her skill with the synth to recreate sound effects that were almost impossible to record properly.

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