My name is Hannah Schneider – would you like to see my playlist?
Music makes my heart race, it makes me cry, laugh, and gesticulate wildly. It's a way to understand myself at different times in my life
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Music makes my heart race, it makes me cry, laugh, and gesticulate wildly. It's a way to understand myself at different times in my life
My playlist changes every day. It reflects my state of mind here and now, and the ideas, memories, joys and sorrows that currently occupy me
Music is my daily nourishment, helping me become a better person
Music for me is peace
In music, the big emotions fall into place, and the small ones bubble up
Music is without exception the start of all my work; I often think, if this work were a song, what song would it be?
Music is life. It contains everything and carries the strongest healing powers there is
Music is like an extra organ through which I perceive the world
Music to me is like water to plants. And a space to connect us, to ourselves, others and the world
For me, music is a secret safe place. It is a refuge from society, from who you're expected to be, and from the idea of belonging.
For me, music is a journey through time; one song can send you back to a childhood summer, a packed dance floor, a breakup
For me, music is a rush in the chest – a way of understanding and expressing emotions.
As Bertolt Brecht once wrote: »In dark times, will there also be singing? Yes · there will be singing, about the dark times.«
Music is all of life in sound.
Music occupies most of my waking hours. It is a condition that began to grow when I was a teenager.
Music for me is the purest transformation of any energy hiding inside.
Music, to me, is … the silence that gropes – like yourself – across a black canvas.
»For me, music is a non-figurative process that cannot be definitively categorised.«
When I search for new music, I search for sound that evokes images in my mind. It is fuel, a gateway to emotion, and my most important writing companion. When inspiration lapses, music is the tool that always jumpstarts it.
Music, to me, is a companion through life, a premise, an excuse, a mystery, an explanation, a point of departure.
»Music amplifies every emotion, love, happiness, anger, sadness a thousand times over, making me feel everything more deeply and sensitively.«
Like all art, music is a language for emotions, dreams, and the search for meaning—but for us it is just as crucial that music is a path to community.
Music, to me, is the lifeline to the world that more than anything else creates emotional resonance and fills my head with confetti of thought.
Music, to me, is true luxury and has always been an opening into a language without constricting categories, with room for both intimacy and impact.
»Music is everything that can only be described far more poorly with words.«