Biography
Alexander Hacke, founding member and bass player of German cult band Einstürzende Neubauten, main figure in Fatih Akin's movie "Crossing the Bridge: the sound of Istanbul", and film composer of movies has been collaborating with the American artist Danielle de Picciotto since 2001, together initiating performances such as:
• Mountains of Madness, based on HP Lovecraft stories (inviting The Tiger Lillies to participate);
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• Bada Bing, a performance series which ran for a year, presenting their own new music and visuals and hot Berlin bands;
• The History of Electricity, an electronic performance depicting electricity in its most unusual and abstract form;
• Sanctuary, a road record Alexander composed on a trip through the US with Danielle filming the journey;
• The Ship of Fools, an audio/visual performance based on the novel by the 15th-century German writer Sebastian Brant, that serves as the inspiration for this like-titled performance piece, which dramatizes assorted follies and vices that continue to afflict us today. It's the latest in a series of acclaimed multi-media works by this duo.
Besides drawing, painting and directing music videos/documentaries, Danielle de Picciotto was singer in the band Space Cowboys, founded the Ocean Club together with Gudrun Gut and was co-founder of the Love Parade in Berlin.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.