15 questions with… Sissi Rada
With a background in both classical harp playing and electronic music, Sissi Rada was almost destined to end up living and working in Berlin. But no one could have predicted that after playing her harp with a vibrator in front of Brian Eno she would end up collaborating with him. “He makes the best jokes and I laugh a lot, so we immediately became close,” she says. Maybe it was written in the stars after all…
> What is it about Berlin? Not only do a large proportion of the software companies we deal with here at Computer Music hail from the city but so do an almost endless list of the artists we interview. And while Sissi Rada was born in Greece, with a passion for both contemporary harp playing and electronic music production, it was only a matter of time before she succumbed to the creative pull of Germany’s finest city. Here she plays harp for Teodor Currentzis’ musicaAeterna orchestra and also collaborates with the Berlin Philharmonic. But as impressive as those two orchestral manoeuvres are, we’re more intrigued about how she managed to rope both Brian Eno and Mouse On Mars’ Andi Toma in for her recent album, Nanodiamond…