Pioneering digital music composer and sound designer Suzanne Ciani, aka the “Diva of the Diode,” has launched greater than a dozen albums over the past fifty years, crossing genres from avant-garde to experimental jazz and ambient. (My favourite is Seven Waves from 1979.) Within the Eighties, Ciani additionally famously appeared on the David Letterman Present (beneath) and produced music for movie and tv commercials, together with an Atari commercial and Lily Tomlin’s The Unimaginable Shrinking Girl. I hadn’t realized although that she was additionally the creator of the seductive voice and synth rating for the long-lasting 1980 pinball machine Xenon. From Wikipedia:

This marked the primary feminine voice heard in a pinball recreation and Ciani had by no means performed pinball earlier than the mission arose. In 2013, she was inducted into The Pinball Expo Corridor of Fame for her work on the sport. Ciani then sampled her voice onto a sound chip with the purpose of promoting it to be used in different functions, together with elevator bulletins.

You should buy the Xenon soundtrack right here, as launched by the intrepid crate diggers on the Finders Keepers label.