Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation: Sarah Legault
Sarah Legault: “To be clear, I really didn’t know what I was doing…”
"My headphones always sooth any anxiety I feel when leaving my house solo. Music helps me think, it …
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation: Sarah Legault
Dekmantel Festival 2023
The deep love for the diversity of electronic music
So what remains of those ecstatic moments for which so many people came together and so many others …
James Ellis Ford – Interview – Depeche Mode
James Ellis Ford: “If I am really lucky I get a bit in the zone where time disappears”
I catch up with James Ellis Ford in his cosy home attic studio in London. And even though he is in t…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends
Yvonne Ducksworth: “I’m a survivor, and there are a lot of walls”
"As a woman, as a Black woman, I saw that I had to be better in order to get anywhere, whether that …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Charlotte Goldermann
Charlotte Goltermann: “Without music there would be no tears in the cinema!”
"We don't sign musicians because we think they're bad and want to improve them, but because we think…
Conrad Schnitzler – preprint
When Finished Products Become Set Pieces: An Approach to Conrad Schnitzler’s Intermedia Work
"I didn’t want to play normal scales, and couldn’t have even if I’d wanted to. That was my fr…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Petra Wende
Petra Wende: “Places of dreaming, of beauty and tenderness, but also of dissonance and fractions”
"Petra has an inner delicacy and sensitivity paired with tremendous power, which is wonderfully refl…
Interview, „Eternally Frozen“ (Maple Death Records)
Andrea Belfi: “I appreciate being temporary”
"I was part of the punk/hardcore scene in Italy in the mid 90s (...) This was a bunch of years that…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Rosie Westbrook
Rosie Westbrook: “I tend to like music that is a bit dark, or abstract”
"Especially with the new album "Always the Sea", I wanted to re-create the landscape/seascape I was …
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends: Delphine Ciampi
Delphine Ciampi: “Music becomes richer when it is composed together by different people”
Am I trying to express something? I am not totally sure, but you know when you feel good, and you …
He formed a band
“I am not drinking a lot of brandy and going crazy anymore” – Eddie Argos from Art Brut
Eddie Argos and his band Art Brut delivered the most exciting slogans of the noughties. An act that …
"Nekromantik 2" – Soundtrack – Interview
Mark Reeder: “People in the East were camera shy”
"The fall of the Wall also opened up new opportunities to film. Unknown locations were literally eve…
Shelly Quest: “Support the dreams”
"If you come from Chorweiler and this is all you see, and then you grow up, of course it is really h…
Stefanie Kay Sparks & Dorothea Tachler – Interview – Video Premier My Favourite Things „Thunderstorm“
No fear & a Blueberry Thunderstorm
"In My Favourite Things, I usually do a deep dive into my own psyche and explore a situation or emot…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends: Jonnine Standish
Jonnine Standish: “A long rewarding description of what was originally maybe 5 seconds of life”
"My mother ran away from home as a young teenager and would never talk about her family again even u…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Ellen Southern
Ellen Southern: “I can express myself best through the words of others”
"Everything has been felt before and I love remembering that, tapping into a timeless human connecti…
Weekend Residency, Artist Talk: Claire Rousay by Hanna Bächer
Claire Rousay: “I’m really interested in universal human experiences”
"It’s different playing with or writing for an instrument versus writing for or collaborating with…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Liz Lamere – Interview
Liz Lamere: “Treat me like I’m training for a pro-fight”
"My music reflects my energy and I gravitate toward higher intensity beats and sound. The common th…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends
Susanne Deeken: “Creation protects me from internal and external harm”
"All my life, even as a little kid, I have been attracted by a certain melancholy or darkness and a …
Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander – LABOUR – Interview
Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander “Our hope is to bring awareness to listening through sound and the associated tactile elements”
Curation or organisation is just an extension of our artistic practice – we certainly do not consi…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends w/ Valerie Renay
Valerie Renay: “You need to face your own demons”
"Every type of separation, border, or frontier is arbitrary. Our brain is trained from a young age t…
Anushka Chkheidze – Feature
Anushka Chkheidze: “When I play, I am really free”
Georgian musician Anushka Chkheidze is constantly searching for new influences and ways of expressio…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends w/ Bettina Rust
Bettina Rust: “Memorize the answer and use it for the next question, fully engage with the other as the interviewer.”
"I consider it high art when people deal with language in a playful, humorous, and easy way. No flou…
Interview
“Maybe one day I’ll buy a suit and go to office like Nick Cave” – The Grace Cummings story
Grace Cummings is a folk musician from Australia. Her second record is titled "Storm Queen" and with…
Homestory
“Like a sausage they’ve cut open” – A visit to the Whiskey Robber
The Hungarian folk hero Attila Ambrus committed twenty-nine robberies of post offices, travel agenci…
Jordan Chanetsa – Interview – Participatory Residency Program ADKDW
„I am someone that loves to be seen – so it´s only right for me to want for other people to be seen too.“
"I just fear mediocrity, I don´t wanna be mediocre, I don´t wanna be simple – I am addicted to …
Our next level Talkshow
Talking Kaput #09 Featuring Paula Irmschler, Diana Ringelsiep, Henry Lee
Another round of "Talking kaput", we're talking feminism and punk and at last Henry Lee plays her he…
Farida Amadou – Interview – Meakusma Festival / Monheim Triennale
Farida Amadou: „I am not a big talker, I prefer to play music“
"I grew up in a kind of poor family, I'm second generation, my mum was a political refugee – ther…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation w/ Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch: “I never feel nostalgic”
"I feel I am on a path I was destined to be on which involves setting an example of not settling to …
“Electric Lights – Women in Electronic Music” w/ Paula Temple
Paula Temple: “Silence is an amazing creative tool for drama”
I had been reading all the scientific reports I could find on climate predictions between 2015 to 20…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Niagara Detroit: “Art should be political if the artist wants it to be political”
"My style quickly became a Noir Pop style. The 1930s-40s movies inspire because, let’s face it, t…
ELECTRONIC LIGHTS – WOMEN IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Ciel: “never let fear stop you from accomplishing your goals”
"The last two years of time off from touring & performance & the competitive nature of the dance mus…
“Electric Lights – Women in Electronic Music” w/ Louisa Pillot
Louisahhh: “This life is lonely, and it’s amazing to get to make stuff with people I love and respect”
Biographies are so wonky and self-aggrandizing. I wanted a short poem or something to articulate wha…
“Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music“
Suzanne Ciani: “”I’m stubborn and I try not to be lazy”
"For me, I gravitated towards a very slow rhythm, the rhythm of the ocean. The ocean represented a …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation w/ Katrina Beale
Katrina Beale: “I am just beginning to feel the sense of a future and a space to plan into”
"I have always been inspired by artists that are interested in more than just the façade. I´m rare…
"Potosí Principle Archive" - Interview with Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann - Akademie der Künste der Welt .
“We pursue a lot of things out of a need to rewrite history – and to keep bringing it back to a contemporary social practice.”
"What's exhausting about the Bitcoin currency is its value discovery. It consists of how much comput…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends w/ Basak Günak
Başak Günak: “I believe that as female:pressure we are creating an important force against “brotherhood” in the scene.”
"Gender inequality is still there and it works in a systematic way, but we continue to make and make…
The Juan Mac Lean – Kaput Podcast
Juan MacLean „ I turned down this gig, I’m going to end up living under a bridge. “
Juan MacLean, today‘s guest on the kaput podcast is an old companion. In the 90s he was guitarist …
Danielle dePicciotto & Friends: Shelley Hirsch
Shelley Hirsch: “I perform completely improvised music in concert quite often and the goal is to be as unprepared as possible”
Shelley Hirsch is known as one of the most versatile vocalists of our times in the area of improvise…
Interview Interstellar Funk / Olf van Elden
Olf van Elden: “A community needs a place and there wasn’t any in the last two years, so it will take some time for it all to recover”
"I think a local community is very important for a healthy scene, and especially for the upcoming ar…
We can talk openly here
Skuff Barbie – Deep Talk NRW, Pt. 09
Skuff Barbie is one of the most talented german MC’s. We’re awaiting her debut-album and are ver…
Hiking & talking w/ Masha & Angel
Masha: “We are in this together. We want to care of each other.”
"I’m really just encouraging everyone to create those safe spaces for the community."…
40 Years of Touch – Interview with Jon Wozencroft & Mike Harding
TOUCH: „We survived because there’s a lot of things that we chose not to do, which has worked out really well“
"As much as Jon and Mike value memories and shared history they are driven by their ongoing curiosit…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends w/ Maroula Blades
Maroula Blades: “I dream in English”
"I remember being called the N- word often while on the way to school. And no white child sat next t…
We can talk openly here
Meryem Erkus – Deep Talk NRW, Pt. 08
She is the entrepreneur of our hearts. The city of Cologne without Meryem? Boy, this would be some k…
Kim Gordon – Exhibition at JUBG, Cologne
Kim Gordon: “I’ve always felt more like an artist and kind of an outsider in the music world”
"Music in a way is much easier because I try not to think too much about it. I am pretty physically …
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends w/ Vanessa Vivante
Vanessa Vivante: “As a teen, I liked finding interesting and weird music …”
"It was the first time I’ve done a remote collaboration like that. The process reminded me of how …
Akademie der Künste der Welt – Interview w/ Madhusree Dutta & Max Hinderer Cruz
Madhusree Dutta: “I wanted to make people re-think the formulation of local and international”
"It was kind of a playful public exercise to establish that the local is not parochial. Parochial is…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in Conversation w/ Gil de Ray
Gil de Ray: “It´s important to keep the ego in check”
"I moved to London in the early 90’s and Acid House and the Rave scene had transformed British Cul…
Interview with Joseph ‘Jazzbo’ Patel, producer of "Summer of Soul"
Joseph ‘Jazzbo’ Patel: “It’s finding your tribe, right?”
Joseph ‘Jazzbo’ Patel is the producer of "Summer of Soul". Based on long-lost footage, the film …
We can talk openly here
Dimitri Hegemann – Deep Talk NRW, Pt. 07
This is already the seventh episode of our very own documentary series called “Deep Talk NRW”. …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation w/ Kat Menschik
Kat Menschik: My ink stroke is part of my body, like my nose or the color of my eyes.
"I owe everything that defines me to my parents, my youth in the GDR, my studies straight after the …
