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Certainly Cipolla wasn't terribly serious about being pre-med while she was at Brown. She would emerge from her room feeling as if she had studied for hours, she says, and in fact she would have been in her room for a fair amount of time. But much of it was spent writing songs and children's stories, instead of building molecular models. Even if she didn't feel that art was justifiable as an end in itself, she says, she couldn't concentrate solely on science...
Performing came easily at first. It began when Cipolla was at Brown, as a joke; she says she didn't know enough about music to be scared to standing in front of an audience and singing songs front of an audience and singing songs she'd written. "I didn't know the music business," she says, "I'd have been a lot more scared if I'd known." Now she enjoys performing, meeting people in audiences, "feeding off the audience's energy," creating something new each time she sings an old song...
...only time Cipolla finds performing difficult is when the audience asks for an old song and she can't quite evoke the feeling behind the words, can't quite remember how she felt when it was written. And feelings are basic to her songs--almost all of them deal with some kind of turbulence in her life. "Nothing moves without friction," she says, and she believes the friction is an integral part of creativity...
Right now, the friction in Cipolla's life is the contrast between her music, which she regards as "a gift, and you have to watch it, take care of it," and the business of producing and packaging music. Cipolla says she has always lived partly in a fantasy world, half-believing in witches and the power of magic as well as that of science and technology. In the last few years, she says, she has had to deal with "the shock of touching down on earth for a while...
...that friction may not be an unhealthy one. Cipolla--who recently dropped her long-time nickname, Fishweasel--has been getting more singing offers in the past few months; she opened a concert for Livingston Taylor last Sunday, and is currently negotiating with Asylum Records. Closer to home, she will be singing this weekend at the Nameless Coffeehouse in Cambridge. As she wrote in one of her more recent songs...