Rite Of The Demon: Summer, with Suzanne Ciani
Saturday, June 20, 2026
6:30 PM Doors
All Ages
Seated Performance
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Rite Of The Demon: Summer
with Suzanne Ciani
A synesthetic intermedia performance retelling the story of an ancient oracle, featuring a quad performance by Suzanne Ciani, presented by Eternal Research.
Eternal Research presents Rite of the Demon: Summer, an evening of collaborative experimentation between contemporary artists and ancient oracles. Featuring LA’s Fierra Ex Machina, inventors and developers of the Demon Box, and joined by electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani, this multimedia event melds storied mediums with cutting-edge transmedia to offer the key to the Oracle of Delphi’s origin: the powers of embodied vision.
A synesthetic retelling of the Oracle’s visions through live-scored music, dance, and film, Rite of the Demon: Summer invites a conversation with the unseen and unheard made audible and visible. Utilizing motion-reactive live projection, audio-reactive lighting, and handmade instruments such as the percussive Demon Harp, Demon Viola, and Demon Bells (made from antique artillery shells), this performance amplifies the timeless conversation between ear and instrument, the aether and ourselves. Additionally, Eternal Research shares our eternal gratitude that Suzanne Ciani will join Rite Of The Demon: Summer. An oracle in her own right for pioneering both the expressive possibilities of electronic music as well as women participating in music culture at large, Ciani joins Rite to perform an immersive experience in her signature quadraphonic speaker array.
Following performances in Los Angeles and New York City, Rite of the Demon: Summer is the third iteration of Eternal Research’s ongoing seasonal series of intermedia events. More events to be announced at eternalresearch.com.
About the Artists
Eternal Research
Eternal Research is a Brooklyn born, Los Angeles-based creative technology studio dedicated to developing experimental audiovisual tools. The Demon Box, Eternal Research’s flagship instrument, channels the untapped electromagnetic forces around us to reveal a hidden world of music. Through the alchemy of their creations, Eternal Research crafts multimedia performances and projects that are synesthetic, collaborative, and revelatory.
Suzanne Ciani
While the union of classical music and more popular sensibilities often produces works of massive scale and operatic aspirations, Suzanne Ciani has across decades and innumerable platforms mined the genius latent in the incidental, the occasional, and the ephemeral. Born in Italy, Ciani studied music formally in the U.S. In the 1970s, she composed music for commercials for Merrill Lynch, General Electric, AT&T, and Coca Cola. She also reproduced sound effects on the synthesizer for companies, most famously the sound of a Coke bottle being opened. Other such credits include logo sounds for Energizer and ABC. She was the first woman to score a major Hollywood film (Lily Tomlin’s The Incredible Shrinking Woman). She also scored Lloyd Williams’ 1975 film Rainbow’s Children, and the daytime soap opera One Life to Live. Beginning in 1982, she began recording new age albums that blended electronic and acoustic instrumentation.
