Interview
Merv Espina: “Access. Transformation. Emancipation.”
"I don’t really have a material or studio practice. I also don’t have storage space. These thing…
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Interview
TIMES OF HANDS – GAMIFICATION VS PLAY– 11./12.06., 2-5pm – Interview with Sam Hopkins and Hans Bernhard (UBERMORGEN)
“We have to get away from the male supremacy of Silicon Valley – it`s toxic and dangerous for everybody and anybody”
"For me it's not so much that researching gamification has affected how i play games, it has affecte…
"TIMES OF HANDS – COVID GLOSSARY" – 04./05.06, 2-5pm (cet) – Interview with Prasad Shetty
“The pandemic made the digital, a home and the physical, a prison”
"While the glossary preserves the integrity of each pixel, it allows for multiple readings and narra…
SUPERGAU Festival – Stefano D'Alessio – Interview
Stefano D’Alessio „Time is more important than commodities“
"The theme is the contrast between being physically present somewhere and being virtually present in…
FUNKT sound art radio – Interview mit Georg Dietzler
“HOW CAN WE MAKE THE COLOGNE ELECTRONIC AND SOUND ART SCENES HEARD WITHOUT LIVE CONCERTS?“
"Cologne's artists lack a "Berlin" self-image – look at what this city has to offer. In Cologne a …
An Interview with Brian Jackson – By Julian Brimmers
Brian Jackson – Survival Kits on Wax
"Part of life is the journey and sometimes not even knowing where you’re going. But knowing that y…
DeForrest Brown, Jr. – Interview
DeForrest Brown, Jr.: “To put it directly, Black people are hostages of the United States government who have not been able to properly participate in the nation or its rights, protections, economies and industries as full citizens.”
"The conceit of "Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry" was to subvert and broadcast the protest movement…
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 …
Interview – Adam Byczkowski
Better Person: “I miss being around people – I do not miss soundchecks and hangovers”
Berlin based sad eyed crooner Adam Byczkowski is bringing under his Better Person persona multicolor…
Marco Donnarumma: „Corpus Nil: Eingeweide“
“It’s about understanding that we humans are not any more important than any other creature on the planet”
A lot has been written lately about the end of the artist as we know her/him. The legend is on the s…
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…
Sona Jobarteh – Interview
Sona Jobarteh: “I wanted to get recognition for playing the Kora not for being a woman”
"We are doing what we are doing to keep the tradition alive and innovate it and make sure it still g…
Roísín Murphy – Interview
Roísín, the infinitely capable machine
"Microclubbing! C’mon! It’s the future. We have to go back to basics and build it again." Roís…
Lucrecia Dalt – Interview
Lucrecia Dalt: “The fear of not making this a sustainable career has returned due to corona”
"For me standing on stage means engaging in the most active and energetically intense way I can, it …
Nika Breithaupt – Interview
Nika Son: “I often feel more connected to animals than to humans”
Nika Breithaupt aka Nika Son aka Nikae is one of the most active and sensitive artists in Hamburg. H…
OOIOO – Interview
OOIOO: “The music oozes into the nature of the listener”
"This is my imaginary insect. I want to ride on this insect and surf in the new era. This insect m…
Die Glenzer Kuration (III)
Conspiracy in Ficition – Gender & its effects on (pop)culture
It shouldn't make any difference at all, whether you are a woman or a man - is this binarity really …
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…
Pedro Vian – Interview
Pedro Vian: “All humans have this attraction to the unknown – we try to find the unknown in the obscure”
"I need to find inspiration on what I’m seeing or feeling at the moment in order for me to start a…
Miruna Boruzescu – Interview
Borusiade: “I am very concerned about what we are experiencing as humans of today and how we handle our planet, ourselves, our environment”
"This relief, please breathe in, now we start, you breathe out, in your mind so deep in there’s a…
Steve Blame – Interview
Steve Blame: „I don’t have the money – I have the passion!“
"Money and career are unimportant in the grand scheme of things. When you look after someone who is …
Arya Zappa – Interview
Arya Zappa: „What is real? This question drives me and is at the center of my work.“
The world of Arya Zappa brings up many references. Of course one has to think of Grace Jones, but al…
Waclaw Zimpel – Interview
Waclaw Zimpel: “I lose a lot of energy in making decisions”
On the 31st of January 2020, Polish musician Waclaw Zimpel will release his new album “Massive Osc…
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…
Becca Stevens – Interview
Becca Stevens: “I hope to find solace, inspiration, originality, authenticity, humanness, fearlessness, grounded-ness, spirituality, and raw emotion”
There are certain struggles that women face in the music industry that men see much less of, and thi…
Easterndaze x Berlin 2019 – Interview with Lucia Udvardyova & Natalie Gravenor
Berlin has a bizarre relationship to its “Eastern” neighbors
Even though it's exactly 30 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and most Eastern European coun…
HTRK at Atonal Festival – Interview
HTRK: It’s not as sad anymore because we’re not as sad
"We’ve gone through a whole process of healing and accepting and that just comes out in what you c…
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…
Akiko Yano - Interview
“When you are communicating through music there is no fear or intimidation”
"Young people want to know about our music and I am grateful for that. I think some of it somehow ca…
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…
Kate NV – Videofeature
Kate NV “A Journey Into Sounds”
Kate Shilonosova in conversation with Thomas Venker for Kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz & Pop. …
Terence Fixmer – Interview
Terence Fixmer: „I saw the start of Techno!“
"Personally I don’t understand djs who are playing ten times or more per month. I don’t see the …
Jessica Pratt – Interview
Jessica Pratt: “It came out of me with a bang”
"Quiet Signs" is, of course, not a loud, flashy album – rather a gentle revolution, a timeless, cr…
Borderlands Trio – Interview with Stephan Crump
Borderlands Trio: “A lifetime of preparation for that moment”
Borderlands Trio is the formation of Stephan Crump (bass), Kris Davis (piano) and Eric Mc Pherson (d…
Omar Contri – Interview
Shinoby: “It’s not a strategy, for an DIY artist like me it’s a question of surviving. “
Verona based producer Omar Contri is about to release three 12-inches back to back, each coming in w…
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…
Loraine James – Interview
“female:pressure is awesome because it recognises us, and we do exist. There are a lot of us!”
"I think in the past year and a half I’ve become more confident in who I am as a person, and my id…
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…
Lena Platonos – Interview – DICE conference and festival
Lena Platonos: “I listen to music 24 hours a day.”
"I advise them to fight for their rights and hope for a more optimistic future." – Lena Platonos …
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…
Andi Otto in conversation with Oki Kano, collaborator of the late Umeko Ando
The magic music of Umeko Ando
Interview by Andi Otto with Oki Kano, collaborator of the late Umeko Ando.…
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…
Fenster - JJ Weihl in conversation
“What if life was just a joke?”
After the withdrawal of producing "The Room" comes return, so it’s time to say knock knock: Who’…
Peter Brötzmann & Oxbow
It’s not the twelve bar, it’s the person behind!
On Sunday the 20th of May Peter Brötzmann played together with Dan Adams, Greg Davis, Eugene Robins…
Discwoman – Videointerview
Challenge the norms
Thomas Venker met Emma Burgess-Olson (aka UMFANG), Christine Tran and Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson at …
Fischerspooner Interview with Casey Spooner
Casey Spooner: “Now I’m addicted to museum shows. I want one every year.”
"Now I'm addicted to museum shows. I want one every year." – NAK director Maurice Funken in conve…
Silvia Jiménez Alvarez aka Jasss in conversation
JASSS: “Those things exist in me and bother me.”
Spain born artist Silvia Jiménez Alvarez already set some significant marks in the world of dark el…
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…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Kirsty Allison: “Life’s too short to fuck around”
"Good poetry brings people together, and there’s nothing like instigating that." – Danielle de …
Magnea
Social pop anthropologist
In the first place, Maral Salmassi just wanted to produce the record by the Icelandic dance pop duo …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Dana Gingras: “Dancing really saved my life, as it was a way to manage all the energy and self-destructive tendencies I had”
"Dance and live performance fundamentally explores and embraces the condition of risk. Through emplo…
