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 …
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Danielle De Picciotto & Friends: Delphine Ciampi
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in Conversation w/ Diáne Zillmer
Diáne Zillmer: “In old age you notice how little you actually know”
"We still live the norms of an industrial and production-oriented society, although these have alrea…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation w/ Angela Dwyer
Angela Dwyer: “We often assume that all artists are progressive, but unfortunately the political persuasions of artists are pretty much the same as the rest of society”
"I like fragments of texts that are taken out of context because they take on a new meaning when iso…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation: Laetitia Cecile aka Sakina
Sakina: “Music is not just a way to celebrate, connect or travel; it’s also an act of liberty, a step to freedom”
"In Niger and all over the African continent, artists wrote songs to inform the population about the…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation – Yuko Matsuyama
Yuko Matsuyama: “I seek a truth in a non-verbalized dimension”
"There is a saying in Japan, “Onko-Chishin”, it means, learning new things from the past. But in…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation – Victoria Keddie
Victoria Keddie: “My work explores the cacophony of media ecologies that we operate within, both as an intimate and planetary exchange”
"The shifts in a planetary balance and our relationship to the planet and outer planetary systems ar…
Danielle de Picciotto & friends in conversation – Tanja Ries
Tanja Ries: “Young people need more participation, more spaces that are their spaces”
"The pandemic magnifies the weak points of our society. Sadly, this includes poverty, a lack of equa…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in conversation: Rosita Kuerbis
Rosita Kuerbis “I advise all artists to work on new productions, to compose and prepare for the time when the venues and museums will open again”
"Keep calm, visualize your own goals, gather the means to implement them and go. I don't just mean f…
Daniele De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Ulrike Haage
Ulrike Haage: “I want to give food for thought, encourage and create space for imagination”
"Because, as Duchamp said, “the creative act is only finalzed with the audience”. I miss these m…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation: Lady Gaby
Gaby Bila-Günther aka Lady Gaby: “SHOW RATHER THAN TELL”
"Although the freedom in how we use our language has expanded, censorship in artistic and daily lang…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation: Angeliska Polacheck
Angeliska Polacheck “I believe in free will, and that the most accurate way to predict the future is to create it!”
"A major reckoning is at hand, and it helps to have, again, a “celestial weather report”, to be …
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation: Gemma Ray
Gemma Ray: “I am mainly writing words without music and music without words”
"I am trying to be in the here and now – to have no fixed plans. I am processing." – Gemma Ray i…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation: Mary Muszynski
Mary Muszynski: “Find beauty in the place you are in and then amplify it!”
"We need natural beauty at home and in our urban common space. My plan is to keep making thoughtful …
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation with Lyndelle-Jayne Spruyt (L.J.Spruyt)
Lyndelle-Jayne Spruyt (L.J.Spruyt): “I’ve often been told my work is very ‘dark’, I’m not sure this is true”
"You also couldn't afford to buy endless rolls of film, paper and chemicals–so the photos you took…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation
Dorit Chrysler: “The community is everything to me and always creates new movement”
"The better you know yourself, the more fearless you can translate it into sound." – Dorit Chrysl…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends – Käthe Kruse
Käthe Kruse: “Half-hearted work is worth nothing”
"Difficult to answer. I am open and honest in a straightforward and direct way. That means I do not …
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends – PHEW
PHEW: “I cannot free myself from my tastes”
"After the 2011 earthquake and nuclear power plant accident, I was cautious and skeptical of singing…
Daniele De Picciotto & Friends: Rachel Davis
Rachel Davis: “I wish that health, safety and wellbeing could be held up as basic human rights”
"The last few years have been very difficult ones for the public’s health. At Prevention Institute…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends: Candice Nembhard
Candice Nembhard: “If you are fortunate enough to get a steady gig, then next comes the issue of being paid adequately for your contributions”
"In my opinion, the rise of first person, op-eds has somewhat overshadowed the responsibility of neu…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation – Michaela Melián
Michaela Melián: “Art, music, literature, theater, film – these are basic foods for me.”
"I do not really make anything up, the topics I'm interested in are lying around anyway, offering th…
Danielle De Picciotto and friends in conversation: Martina Bertoni
Martina Bertoni: “Making art transcends the miserable and mundane exercise of power and prevarication”
"At the moment the challenge for everybody is to learn the right vocabulary when we deal with creati…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Margarete Kreuzer
Margarete Kreuzer: “I want my documentaries to tell stories about dealing with reality.”
"That's why I love music, because it makes you feel things in a very straightforward way. When I hea…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Raphaele Shirley
Raphaele Shirley: “Anyone’s own belief system drives the framework of their existence”
"It is a life-long quest to discover a satisfying way to represent the Universe..." – Raphaele S…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Sabin Aell
Sabin Aell: “For me it is more interesting what I am becoming than where I was born”
"I guess I am a surfer, riding “the wave”, always on the look out for the next magnificent one."…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Andrea Wünsche (Magnet Musik)
Andrea Wünsche: “Nowadays it’s often about quick money (…) the market has become more commercial”
"As a booker, you have to create a strategy, a plan for your artist, have to travel a lot, get to kn…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Sonja Krohn (La petite Sonja)
Sonja Krohn (La petite Sonja): “My boyfriend is my muse”
"I want to survive as long as I can to raise our daughter properly. That’s my main plan momentaril…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation - MAYa Hardinge
MAYa Hardinge & Fear of failing!
"I’ve been obsessed with music since I was very little and obsessed with visuals and style since t…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation - Julia Kent
Julia Kent: “I find it endlessly interesting, and empowering, to learn about and to interact with technology”
"There's something about joining that stream of human energy that you find in a city and feeling the…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation - Jennifer Tull Westberg
Jennifer Tull Westberg: “Gemstones are magical to me – gifts from deep in the Earth”
"I never really lack ideas as I am constantly being inspired. My biggest problem is actually finding…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation - Ziska Riemann
Ziska Riemann: “Art has the ability to confuse one’s point of view”
"I still live the same bohemian life as twenty years ago. Since I have no permanent job, no family, …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation – Marie Čtveráčková
Marie Čtveráčková: “It still surprises me how women are treated”
For the latest installment of Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation DdP met up with Prague…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation – Linnea Hellström
Linnea Hellström: “The main reason to be strong is to protect those who are weaker”
"Veganism is more than what we eat, buy, wear, support or boycott. It´s a whole way of thinking, fe…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Barbara Morgenstern: “Goose bumps are always great”
"Language is very important to me, I work a lot with meanings between the lines, ambiguity, puns and…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation – Natasja Alers
Natasja Alers: “Art is a way for me to express frustration, sadness, passion or obsession and a certain urgency”
"I can't imagine my life without creating something, whatever it is. Art for me is the only answer a…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Amy Kaps: “Honest expression is the most potent”
"I would really like to get out of the no or low budget concept" – Amy Kaps in conversation with …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Jo Quail: If you’re a freelance musician and a parent you need to be incredibly well organized”
"Inspiration takes all forms for all people, whether it’s a gentle meditation as you do the shoppi…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Tessa Hughes Freeland: “Overload creates a confusion of meaning – I love that”
Tessa Hughes Freeland is a british born experimental filmmaker who moved to NYC in the late 70ies. S…
