en en Art for Arts Sake The backscenes dialogues - insights relating to a contemporary artist collaboration. This is a podcast for those people who ask themselves if they could also be an artist, if they have a "normal" job. And it is a podcast for those who are not artists either. It's a blank canvas and we're speaking about what comes with the job of the artist. WE is Australian guy & the German guy. The Australian guy is a Jazz musician and composer, the German guy is a dancer and media artist. We also speak about good coffee, theories of the number of piano shops as a sign for culture in a city or our lack of business plans but doing the work anyway - Art for Art's Sake. Join us for a cup of coffee or tea. Every episode has its own music created by David. https://www.pipotafel.com/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:47:59 +0200 Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke yes https://lcdn.letscast.fm/media/podcast/84e4b161/artwork-3000x3000.jpg?t=1708700884 Art for Arts Sake https://www.pipotafel.com/ Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke LetsCast.fm (https://letscast.fm) Another Day, Another Story of doing the artist's work Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke episodic https://letscast.fm/podcasts/art-for-arts-sake-84e4b161/feed culture, artist, business and art Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke pipo@pipotafel.com no no no Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke The backscenes dialogues - insights relating to a contemporary artist collaboration. This is a podcast for those people who ask themselves if they could also be an artist, if they have a "normal" job. And it is a podcast for those who are not artists either. It's a blank canvas and we're speaking about what comes with the job of the artist. WE is Australian guy & the German guy. The Australian guy is a Jazz musician and composer, the German guy is a dancer and media artist. We also speak about good coffee, theories of the number of piano shops as a sign for culture in a city or our lack of business plans but doing the work anyway - Art for Art's Sake. Join us for a cup of coffee or tea. Every episode has its own music created by David. no no 5b30359e4c4e47c190dd32fd3cc44702 AFAS E09 The trumpet is unforgiving "Challenge yourself, and you'll extend yourself."
Composer and professional musician David Pyke (Jazz trumpet) about maintenance & craft in art.
In a jam session at a Jazz Club, you might have a good start until minute 1 and 20 seconds of your solo, and that was it for the rest of the evening. Why? Only with reserve, warm-up and having done the daily maintenance of your craft, you can sustain. Without the proper training, there is no way to get through the entire evening because the trumpet never forgives. ]]> Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0100 mentioned in the conversation
- David Crosby Film: Remember My Name (2019)
- Rock group "Crosby Still Nash and Young"
- saxophone player John Coltrane

Music:
1. Dawn Sketches - Prelude to the Prelude
by David W Pyke recorded in Cologne Dec 16, 2023 by David W Pyke

2. C Trompete - Dawn Sketch 3
by David W Pyke recorded  in St. Aposteln Basilica Cologne Jan 4 2024

Dawn Sketches are part of an artistic project in development
DAWN
performance installation
https://www.pipotafel.com/dawn/
pipo tafel, david w pyke
2024 ]]> https://www.pipotafel.com/ David W. Pyke AFAS E09 The trumpet is unforgiving 15 minutes about what it takes to be a trumpet player 00:15:40 Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke 9 full "Challenge yourself, and you'll extend yourself."
Composer and professional musician David Pyke (Jazz trumpet) about maintenance & craft in art.
In a jam session at a Jazz Club, you might have a good start until minute 1 and 20 seconds of your solo, and that was it for the rest of the evening. Why? Only with reserve, warm-up and having done the daily maintenance of your craft, you can sustain. Without the proper training, there is no way to get through the entire evening because the trumpet never forgives. ]]> https://lcdn.letscast.fm/media/podcast/84e4b161/episode/6dd7ba6c/artwork-3000x3000.jpg?t=1709740497 AFAS E09 The trumpet is unforgiving https://www.pipotafel.com/ Professional, Trumpet, player, instrument, practice, muscle, training, craft, Making art no no no no baa8c5f50b1e400e9be4ede6159ac52b AFAS E08 The vintage factor of making art This is one from the Christmas / New Year period, when David was visiting Cologne. It is quite probable that we need to wait (sometimes a long time) until there is interest in our work. At least an independent classical composer living in Australia, as David is, experiences this. This year (2024), the Portland Youth Symphony Orchestra performed one of his works, that was composed around 20 years ago. Surely it is tough, but apart from only being frustrated, we encourage each other to think of the fermentation process of the work - sometimes it is like the wine with your new art work, it needs time in the cellar. We have to have some outlet, right? We need to make art? We are hopeless, although we are banging at people's doors and submit music if they like it or not. And we always come back to saying to each other - as artists we will keep working and creating - when our work is not of interest to people, we keep working & follow our passion - do the quiet work, David calls it.

Recorded in Köln, January 5th, 2024

You can watch the mentioned Performance of David that took almost 20 years, here:
Desert Suite Premiere - Portland Youth Philharmonic Jan 5th, 2024
https://youtu.be/7y0IMdEridI

The music in this episode was recorded by David in St. Aposteln
(the photo of this episode was made there, too: "Trumpetmeister David Pyke"), 
thanks to the support and kindness of St. Aposteln Cantor Meik Impekhoven 
and the help and patience of Christof Köhler. Cheers!
]]> Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0100 This is one from the Christmas / New Year period, when David was visiting Cologne. It is quite probable that we need to wait (sometimes a long time) until there is interest in our work. At least an independent classical composer living in Australia, as David is, experiences this. This year (2024), the Portland Youth Symphony Orchestra performed one of his works, that was composed around 20 years ago. Surely it is tough, but apart from only being frustrated, we encourage each other to think of the fermentation process of the work - sometimes it is like the wine with your new art work, it needs time in the cellar. We have to have some outlet, right? We need to make art? We are hopeless, although we are banging at people's doors and submit music if they like it or not. And we always come back to saying to each other - as artists we will keep working and creating - when our work is not of interest to people, we keep working & follow our passion - do the quiet work, David calls it.

Recorded in Köln, January 5th, 2024

You can watch the mentioned Performance of David that took almost 20 years, here:
Desert Suite Premiere - Portland Youth Philharmonic Jan 5th, 2024
https://youtu.be/7y0IMdEridI

The music in this episode was recorded by David in St. Aposteln
(the photo of this episode was made there, too: "Trumpetmeister David Pyke"), 
thanks to the support and kindness of St. Aposteln Cantor Meik Impekhoven 
and the help and patience of Christof Köhler. Cheers!
]]> https://www.pipotafel.com/ AFAS E08 The vintage factor of making art Be patient, keep working until time is / people are ready for your art 00:16:15 Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke 8 full This is one from the Christmas / New Year period, when David was visiting Cologne. It is quite probable that we need to wait (sometimes a long time) until there is interest in our work. At least an independent classical composer living in Australia, as David is, experiences this. This year (2024), the Portland Youth Symphony Orchestra performed one of his works, that was composed around 20 years ago. Surely it is tough, but apart from only being frustrated, we encourage each other to think of the fermentation process of the work - sometimes it is like the wine with your new art work, it needs time in the cellar. We have to have some outlet, right? We need to make art? We are hopeless, although we are banging at people's doors and submit music if they like it or not. And we always come back to saying to each other - as artists we will keep working and creating - when our work is not of interest to people, we keep working & follow our passion - do the quiet work, David calls it.

Recorded in Köln, January 5th, 2024

You can watch the mentioned Performance of David that took almost 20 years, here:
Desert Suite Premiere - Portland Youth Philharmonic Jan 5th, 2024
https://youtu.be/7y0IMdEridI

The music in this episode was recorded by David in St. Aposteln
(the photo of this episode was made there, too: "Trumpetmeister David Pyke"), 
thanks to the support and kindness of St. Aposteln Cantor Meik Impekhoven 
and the help and patience of Christof Köhler. Cheers!
]]> https://lcdn.letscast.fm/media/podcast/84e4b161/episode/5c6cb499/artwork-3000x3000.jpeg?t=1709740917 AFAS E08 The vintage factor of making art https://www.pipotafel.com/ patience, art, production, work, process, fermentation no no no no 9c93b1bbc82247a0b08e21e3f9dd91e2 AFAS E06 Agendas in art creation The agenda of not having an agenda. "Welcome to my lab! This is what is on the slab." We talk about the creative mindset, waves of ideas & inspiration and the pathway of intention:
our expectations, agendas, emotions & the sweet spot of surfing when creating, where the great and the lousy ideas coming in waves, and we need to be "in the moment".
We also talk about how to know which direction do you take when you come to a crossroad that destiny offers? He says we need to instigate and take a decision.

Music in the intro is by David and Christof, recorded in January 4th, 2024 in St. Aposteln, made possible through the kind support of Meik Impekoven. Music in the outro is called Canto di Dalia, composed by David and recorded by Alteouise De Vaughn and Andy Redhead in 2021. The recording was made the for Performing Art Podcast, a project supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. 

The video version of E06 has automatically created captions and some pictures, it is available here:
https://vimeo.com/919669443

Recorded 2023 April 4th
by David W. Pyke
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/pyke-david
and Pipo Tafel
https://www.pipotafel.com/

]]> Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0200 The agenda of not having an agenda. "Welcome to my lab! This is what is on the slab." We talk about the creative mindset, waves of ideas & inspiration and the pathway of intention:
our expectations, agendas, emotions & the sweet spot of surfing when creating, where the great and the lousy ideas coming in waves, and we need to be "in the moment".
We also talk about how to know which direction do you take when you come to a crossroad that destiny offers? He says we need to instigate and take a decision.

Music in the intro is by David and Christof, recorded in January 4th, 2024 in St. Aposteln, made possible through the kind support of Meik Impekoven. Music in the outro is called Canto di Dalia, composed by David and recorded by Alteouise De Vaughn and Andy Redhead in 2021. The recording was made the for Performing Art Podcast, a project supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. 

The video version of E06 has automatically created captions and some pictures, it is available here:
https://vimeo.com/919669443

Recorded 2023 April 4th
by David W. Pyke
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/pyke-david
and Pipo Tafel
https://www.pipotafel.com/

]]> https://www.pipotafel.com/ AFAS E06 Agendas in art creation have a plan and also leave a bit of space in there for inspiration to come into the game 00:34:45 Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke 6 full The agenda of not having an agenda. "Welcome to my lab! This is what is on the slab." We talk about the creative mindset, waves of ideas & inspiration and the pathway of intention:
our expectations, agendas, emotions & the sweet spot of surfing when creating, where the great and the lousy ideas coming in waves, and we need to be "in the moment".
We also talk about how to know which direction do you take when you come to a crossroad that destiny offers? He says we need to instigate and take a decision.

Music in the intro is by David and Christof, recorded in January 4th, 2024 in St. Aposteln, made possible through the kind support of Meik Impekoven. Music in the outro is called Canto di Dalia, composed by David and recorded by Alteouise De Vaughn and Andy Redhead in 2021. The recording was made the for Performing Art Podcast, a project supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. 

The video version of E06 has automatically created captions and some pictures, it is available here:
https://vimeo.com/919669443

Recorded 2023 April 4th
by David W. Pyke
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/pyke-david
and Pipo Tafel
https://www.pipotafel.com/

]]> https://lcdn.letscast.fm/media/podcast/84e4b161/episode/7ae0012d/artwork-3000x3000.jpeg?t=1709741322 AFAS E06 Agendas in art creation https://www.pipotafel.com/ making art, conversation, artist, Professional, Making art, Composer, craft no no no no a6e4542b42304905b10d9cd1d926e9f1 AFAS E05 The Vortex (The miracle of success) An artist conversation about the mental mud wrestling of wondering why we cannot say what creates a success. David feels like an outlaw, a cowboy, because he has trouble selling tickets for a music show with Italian music, and despite advertisement, sales are slow - what's wrong - is there something wrong or is it a question of how to look at it and unpack another view and logic? The department store of life - how do you know on which floor to look for the answers for our questions of measuring success.

The video version has automatically created captions:
https://vimeo.com/pipotafel/afas05pt1

Recorded 2022 Octobre 6th in Australia | Germany
Music by David | Postproduction by Pipo

by David W. Pyke
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/pyke-david
and Pipo Tafel
https://www.pipotafel.com/]]> Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0200 SHOWNOTES 
(some of the persons and references mentioned in this episode):

LET THERE BE LIGHT
Project Development for an installation with light and color
EN
https://issuu.com/p_tafel/docs/en_web_let_there_be_light_project_documentation
DE
https://www.pipotafel.com/let-there-be-light/

Performing Art Conversations PODCAST is available with all episodes
https://www.pipotafel.com/darstellende-kunst-podcast/]]> https://www.pipotafel.com/ David W. Pyke AFAS E05 The Vortex (The miracle of success) Is success a question of perspective 00:58:07 Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke 5 full An artist conversation about the mental mud wrestling of wondering why we cannot say what creates a success. David feels like an outlaw, a cowboy, because he has trouble selling tickets for a music show with Italian music, and despite advertisement, sales are slow - what's wrong - is there something wrong or is it a question of how to look at it and unpack another view and logic? The department store of life - how do you know on which floor to look for the answers for our questions of measuring success.

The video version has automatically created captions:
https://vimeo.com/pipotafel/afas05pt1

Recorded 2022 Octobre 6th in Australia | Germany
Music by David | Postproduction by Pipo

by David W. Pyke
https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/pyke-david
and Pipo Tafel
https://www.pipotafel.com/]]> https://lcdn.letscast.fm/media/podcast/84e4b161/episode/050dff9f/artwork-3000x3000.jpg?t=1709381650 AFAS E05 The Vortex (The miracle of success) https://www.pipotafel.com/ Making art, advertisement, sales, commercial, Australia, Conversation, Composer, Italian music, no no no no 0ae509bc43cd431082dae84663d2a9c2 AFAS E04 Space in Art & Life What is the relationships of the artist to space and the necessity to reflect upon it? We discuss the labels, that are used to define the languages of art, examples include John Cage 4' 33", Hermann Hesse, ancient paintings in Australia thousands of years old, Miles Davis and others. 
Music as always from David - cheers!]]> Fri, 22 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0200 What is the relationships of the artist to space and the necessity to reflect upon it? We discuss the labels, that are used to define the languages of art, examples include John Cage 4' 33", Hermann Hesse, ancient paintings in Australia thousands of years old, Miles Davis and others. 
Music as always from David - cheers!]]> https://www.pipotafel.com/ AFAS E04 Space in Art & Life when is space, time, sound, movement considered art? 00:26:51 Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke 4 full What is the relationships of the artist to space and the necessity to reflect upon it? We discuss the labels, that are used to define the languages of art, examples include John Cage 4' 33", Hermann Hesse, ancient paintings in Australia thousands of years old, Miles Davis and others. 
Music as always from David - cheers!]]> https://lcdn.letscast.fm/media/podcast/84e4b161/episode/e2e0654e/artwork-3000x3000.jpg?t=1708352759 AFAS E04 Space in Art & Life https://www.pipotafel.com/ Artists, Conversation, Trumpet, ancient art, painting, Australia, no no no no eb62f06086354136b9893530fe1e41f9 AFAS E03 Lament David recorded this episode on July 11, 2022. The editing put it together with a recording of him playing his trumpet in Basilica St. Aposteln Cologne on Jan 4 2024. 
We used these tracks: 
C Trumpet Dawn Sketch 3 & 4. 
More about the music, that make part of an artistic project-in-progress called "Dawn" can be found here: https://www.pipotafel.com/dawn/
Thank you to Maik Impekoven & Christof Köhler for supporting the recording that day. 

]]> Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0200 David recorded this episode on July 11, 2022. The editing put it together with a recording of him playing his trumpet in Basilica St. Aposteln Cologne on Jan 4 2024. 
We used these tracks: 
C Trumpet Dawn Sketch 3 & 4. 
More about the music, that make part of an artistic project-in-progress called "Dawn" can be found here: https://www.pipotafel.com/dawn/
Thank you to Maik Impekoven & Christof Köhler for supporting the recording that day. 

]]> https://www.pipotafel.com/ AFAS E03 Lament effects of accidents on making art 00:05:09 Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke 3 full David recorded this episode on July 11, 2022. The editing put it together with a recording of him playing his trumpet in Basilica St. Aposteln Cologne on Jan 4 2024. 
We used these tracks: 
C Trumpet Dawn Sketch 3 & 4. 
More about the music, that make part of an artistic project-in-progress called "Dawn" can be found here: https://www.pipotafel.com/dawn/
Thank you to Maik Impekoven & Christof Köhler for supporting the recording that day. 

]]> https://lcdn.letscast.fm/media/podcast/84e4b161/episode/5ffa777e/artwork-3000x3000.jpg?t=1708695711 AFAS E03 Lament https://www.pipotafel.com/ making art, artist, conversation no no no no f320f3ffdaf24bcf8a7cb0248afc8612 AFAS E02 Always go ahead Off the track - an episode on the value to travel. Absorbing it and putting it into the art. Is there a difference of being a tourist or travelling and immersing oneself brings you an expansion that also fosters one's art (even if it is going to a 24hours store in San Juan, Puerto Rico)? And sharing it also brings inspiration to others. 

Artist conversation by "the Australian guy", David W. Pyke (Music)
& "the German guy", Pipo Tafel (Editing)
recorded June 14 2021
San Juan Puerto Rico | Cooktown Australia
edited Jan 4 2024 Cologne 
Music: was recorded by David and is called davidadnateguarde & podcast 2 demo tpt take solo]]> Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0200 Off the track - an episode on the value to travel. Absorbing it and putting it into the art. Is there a difference of being a tourist or travelling and immersing oneself brings you an expansion that also fosters one's art (even if it is going to a 24hours store in San Juan, Puerto Rico)? And sharing it also brings inspiration to others. 

Artist conversation by "the Australian guy", David W. Pyke (Music)
& "the German guy", Pipo Tafel (Editing)
recorded June 14 2021
San Juan Puerto Rico | Cooktown Australia
edited Jan 4 2024 Cologne 
Music: was recorded by David and is called davidadnateguarde & podcast 2 demo tpt take solo]]> https://www.pipotafel.com/ AFAS E02 Always go ahead the value of travelling 00:18:31 Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke 2 full Off the track - an episode on the value to travel. Absorbing it and putting it into the art. Is there a difference of being a tourist or travelling and immersing oneself brings you an expansion that also fosters one's art (even if it is going to a 24hours store in San Juan, Puerto Rico)? And sharing it also brings inspiration to others. 

Artist conversation by "the Australian guy", David W. Pyke (Music)
& "the German guy", Pipo Tafel (Editing)
recorded June 14 2021
San Juan Puerto Rico | Cooktown Australia
edited Jan 4 2024 Cologne 
Music: was recorded by David and is called davidadnateguarde & podcast 2 demo tpt take solo]]> https://lcdn.letscast.fm/media/podcast/84e4b161/episode/8d004c6f/artwork-3000x3000.jpg?t=1709740139 AFAS E02 Always go ahead https://www.pipotafel.com/ travelling, puerto rico, immersion no no no no e6514f7b484e44a989c7ca05a267c180 AFAS E01 The artist in everybody & the copyright Who is this podcast for? Why? And we discuss copyright issues related to the music David contributed to this episode - how can and must we use it. The constant dilemma of being an artist and climbing the mountain of making it happen that feels like the Mount Everest. But don't give up, you're not alone. ]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0200 David W. Pyke is a composer and musician from Australia
Pipo Tafel is a media artist and filmmaker from Germany

]]> https://vimeo.com/719333019 David W. Pyke Pipo Tafel AFAS E01 The artist in everybody & the copyright Making arts, making a living & the knitty gritty world of licensing 00:16:18 Pipo Tafel & David W. Pyke 1 full Who is this podcast for? Why? And we discuss copyright issues related to the music David contributed to this episode - how can and must we use it. The constant dilemma of being an artist and climbing the mountain of making it happen that feels like the Mount Everest. But don't give up, you're not alone. ]]> Copyright, Royalties, Making art, Artists, Composer, Producer, Culture no no no no