Art for Arts Sake

"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....

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 a...

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 dire...

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 st...

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!

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 Impeko...

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. P...

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.