2009-12-30 a year to remember | entry by sven

no doubt 2009 will be one of the years to remember. i mean, there are a thousand things pulling me down like certain deseases or different friendships gone wrong, the searching, finding and losing of a thousand things. but i do not feel like mourning, have to think of 2009 as a year for growing up, for taking some things more serious and getting a better idea of what i want to do, actually.

2009 was the discovery of the benelux countries, the year of exhibitions and serious work as a video artist, of experiencing and making outstanding art and music, meeting and working with artists i adore and finally working and partying at the opernabuhütte.
above you see bernadette la hengst and a stupidly smiling version of myself during one of our parties, workshops, live performances, dj-sets, opera performances ... or whatever at the eichbaum and it´s hütte.

what i want to say is, this was a place which we transformed into something we wanted it to be, it was not about looking for culture, it was about making culture and transforming a place.

the future of the eichbaum is insecure, i´m not sure about my own involvement, some things are possible, but we will see.

there is so much more to tell, but i do not have the time to tell you about the great blaise drummond art show in haus lange/haus esters in krefeld,
also i promise to come up with some more pictures of michaela best´s
papillonner calendar which is a must have for everyone who is in art, nature or time management, order here.

in 2010 i will be living in the capital of culture, but to be honest, i´m very sceptical concerning this concept and process. what i can promise is: 2009 was great, i did a lot of working on art, a lot of performing, party, doing exhibitions and releasing, i can not promise more quantity, but the same and higher quality.
and some surprises.

seeya in 2010.
i´m looking forward to joining you.









lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-12-16 papillonner by michaela best out now | entry by sven

i remember the last days of summer, and nature´s full blossom. michaela came up with the strange idea of taking pictures of flowers for a calender. with this vague direction of production we went in the gruga (former federal botanic exhibition park) to portrait some blossoms. i didn´t do the pictures, she did, i was more into my dropouts video theses days.

well, photographing flowers isn´t a very innovative idea, it is one of a dozen classc motives to chose from. there is always the danger of coming up with a boring version of something which had been done better before. i thought about robert mapplethorpe´s flowers, working out the sexual aspects of their simple beings. or i was in the dandelion room by thomas struth, one the most thouching and direction giving monographies for me, giving lanscapes for imaginary walks, and showing flowers as an allegory for the human beatuty and fragility.

i have to say, michaela usually does not take pictures, she is based in other disciplines, she even avoided photoshop post-processing and decided on a minmal design solution for the calender to be escorting 2010.

we were exited and curious when the first issues arrived (actually, she used a production title i won´t tell now) but the result is a blast!!!
we layed it down on the dable to flip through a few times and i added my dandelion room book to it and compared: to be honest, i was shocked. dandelion room is an icon, and it will be, but
papillonner has twelve beatutiful, vivid and emotive portraits of flowers... i wish that i would have done these pictures!!!

you can buy the
papillonner calendar recently it is not to find in any of the shops, but if you want to get one, you can tell us here.

(there will be more snippets of it on the web soon!)


get the info, get a souvenier
the leporellos conaining information on the exhibited works have become interesting souvenier items.
if you wnat to get one, please join the artist meet and greet to recieve yours or mail us over
here

SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES
november 7 — december 19, 2009

artist meet and greet: december 18, 2009 | 8 pm
all info: web version / print version

over at svenpiayda.com/photography







lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-12-07 AESTATEvisual, some background, a review | entry by sven

originally written after closing the AESTATEvisual exhibition, AEv collective artist michaela best has fixed some ideas, thoughts concepts and reactions. originally released via her own blog, now adapted for svennet.

reading the review makes you shiver, i remember i was happy with this exhibition, it was a great success, it surprised and teased many people.
can i write anything that i haven`t written so far?

michaela can: have a look at the review over here.

upcoming AESTATE projects?
well, the AESTATE remix album PATCH is in the making. it will come up with some surprises, you will be surprised, however, this will be a blast!!!
when? well, be patient, it was announced even back in 2008, and now it tell you it will come in 2010.
trust me.

all info: web version / print version
SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES

SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES
over at svenpiayda.com/photography
new cards available, ask for it!

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-11-28 rise of the early bird, finally | entry by sven

it was a masterplan for years now: whenever i was driving around in early morning hours i had the idea to get up early on a day off to take some photographs showing the city waking up. unbelievable, today was the day. due different circumstances i managed to get up, supported by michi (who is coming up these days with her own photographic project). well, we ended up as tired zombies for the whole day.

i did only a few shots but at different locations. you know, photographing in the dark takes a lot time, so i used exposure time up to 30 seconds!
finally i did the photo of the scene i wanted to do for years now. above you se me filming another GATE, the video work is develloping recently. photographs and video to be shown in 2010...

trivia: two compleatly coverd guys in the dark of the night with strange equipment triggered the interest of security and police (car, boat and helicopter!!!), even more when two prison break-outs are unfortunately hiding and threating people in the region we were taking pictures...scary and stupid somehow, and funny...and scary...


all info: web version / print version
SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES

SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES
over at svenpiayda.com/photography
new cards available, ask for it!

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-11-20 chromekraut revisited, from feedback to feedback | entry by sven

when i started the blog in 2003 i did not expect how big it was about to grow. i always called it "journal", like a trivia magazine about the things in my orbit. i witnessed a thousand blogs come and go, their phenomena of bordeom, abuse and abandon.

i don´t know if i can share a glipse of my experiences with you, but i hope to. i wanted to fix some good moments, to me and others, and finally; me writing and you reading is the first step in communication, the second one is up to you...

some weeks ago something funny happend, i turned on the computer on a sunny and cold sunday morning recieving mail from matthias mainz, mastermind of the avantgarde supergroup chromekraut. he had found my article on the chromekraut gig in summer (
2009-07-04 chromekraut after the deluge | entry by sven). i was surprised, he was very kind and just wanted to say thank you, even for the band. it was strange, some days before i was searching for them on the net and found their official site featuring some video footage of the gig!

well, you know, i believe in crosspromotion, communication and collaboration
, i´m always thankful if someone is able to do the second step.

we agreed on finding ways of working together, we are stuck in other projects, but lets see, what the future may bring us.

above you see chromekraut live (i guess it was their only gig so far). you can have a look at their performance now to make sure not to moss the next one.
some more info:
chromekaut official site
chromekaut on vimeo
chromekaut pictures
matthias mainz

all info: web version / print version
SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES

SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES
over at svenpiayda.com/photography
new cards available, ask for it!

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-11-14 burst the bubble, in the name of art / AM&G | entry by sven

yesterday was a day with different dates, i joined the opening of the year´s final art show from kunst raum, which was a collection of outstanding pieces, presented with a great introduction and wine. a perfect start for an evening! i will have an eye on this gallery, let´s see what we can do together...

later i needed to have look ath the eichbaum again, next to the HÜTTE, the raumlabor berlin team brought back the big bubble to the eichbaum (which was instaled there before for another project)
the new procect focusses on the eichbaum youth, fellow artist and eichbaum photographer guntram walter was about ot photograph and point out the kid´s visions, to be exhibited in the bubble...

the respond was low, even bernadettes´s song workshop did not push the kids into activity, it feels strage and dark, is the revolution over?
like the tram, culture only stopped for a moment to leave for another station, but where are the residents?

later on i went onto the balcony, unfortunaty we did´nt close the door, so the bubble went down
— how shamefull...


me on the inside, the bubble has a strange but teasing acoustics, the photographs on a rope.
why is a community so lame, maybe there is no community, are we just accidentaly living in the same place? it is hard to come up with a vision for your suburb, even more when you are seventeen.
it is a tricky project, to make kids find out where they want to go, i know what i´m talking about...

my classic view on the HÜTTE, the bubble illuminates everything in a strange way. actually, the future of it is insecure, my plans for it start in 2010, will the city of mülheim a.d.r. have the money and the patience to keep it running until then?

all info: web version / print version
SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES
artist meet and greet: november 14

tonight i will have a look over the DVD, we need to chance something technically, hang around with friends and have a good time, maybe you want to join us?

SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES
over at svenpiayda.com/photography
new cards available, ask for it!

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-11-09 SSS&S opening success, thank you very much | entry by sven

what a year, what a day! last saturday we finally opened the SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES exhibition. i have expeced some of you, but the respond was unbelievable and fantastic, thank you very much!
installing the exhibition was tough and took longer than i had expected, but claudia from stoffwechsel did a great job.
unfortunately i came late for my own opening, it was not my fault, i was just forgotten in an restaurant - in one of my favourite ones - what a shame!

this opening was like a big birthday party:
you are happy to see so many familiar faces, but you only have the time for some sentences while racing from one to the other. it was stressful, but great.
and once again, i want to say thank you for coming!

here is a small view upon the exhibition, i do not want to show to much, actually you have to see all to understand the concept behind it. while the video installations were changing (and sometimes stopping at the false position) no-one had the time to concentrate on the new arranged photographs on wall.
you should come back while daylight is on!

next to DUALITY 1-3 (which was already exhibitioned on kunst-cluster this year and is now waiting for sequels) many new works had been on screening. above you see an installation view of HELIOS, the opening piece of the screenings.

after AESTATEvisual a lot of people appeared quite irritated sometimes, but here we had positive feedback all the way. many visitiors told me to have finally understood the idea of crossing photograph to video, and triggering imagination instead of showing reality...

i have to thank many people now, i´m thinking of you and i promise to come up with the bundle when the show is over!

SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES
november 7 — december 19, 2009
vernissage: november 7, stoffwechsel essen, germany
all info: web version / print version


SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES
over at svenpiayda.com/photography
new cards available, ask for it!

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-10-23 shooting papercuts / pondskater and pyramids | entry by sven

wow, what a day. i was really into business that day, in art and music, avantgarde - whatever...
somehow things devellop, there is more and more to do, well, let´s try to bring some chronology into it:
konstantin from the band papercuts asked me to do some band photographs for promotion issues. we exchanged many files via the net, so i got a clear idea what this band is all about, the sound and the image.
my photographic work is more based on conceptual art, the portraits i do are more tiny and funny specials. as you know from my other portrait photographs, i always try to create pictures looking like icons, probably in a way andres serrano would do. papercuts are linking different styles, mainly gothic rock and trip hop to name just two, so i thought i could be a great idea to draw some fucked up elements as well as cold and futuristic aspects into the pictures...
i will be working on it over the next weeks, you will see the results soon, there are many other things for me to do recently...
above you see me with konstantin and pale from papercuts after the shoot, having pizza and planning future strikes...

later that night i visited the malkasten for the second time, this time mainly for music. pondskater is one of these avantgarde electronica pioneers, i met him first on our gig with graph back in 2007, then he wrote a reveiw for the superflat album, now he is working on a remix for AESTATE to be released in 2010.
yesterday he came up with a limited and funny set up: a chaos pad, a mixer and two nintendo machines. a tiny camera was filming one nintendo screen and putting a projection on the wall. pondskater played two sets and did not disappoint us, the polyrhthmic freaks.
konstantin came with me, and alex (a.k.a. pondskater) konstantin and me had some good discussions on music, rhythm and sound. what a fantastic experience, what a great way of performing. we actually want to do something together in the future...

the live performance was a part of an event taking place, actually an exhibition of the french artist olivier cablat who was showing photographs, video installatins and interactive works exploring the typology of things and the fascination of pyramids.
the video work empire strikes back got my full attention, digitally edited loop merging to explore the movement in a photograph...hm, reminds me of my own stuff.
we had a chat on the effect of creating illusion and the possibility of believing the illusion generated by a installation or its image. well, photographers just have very limited ways of documenting but multiple ways of develloping and realising concepts.

i really hope to see you on saturday, november 7, 2009 at the stoffwechsel.
now all info is online, have a look below!

SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES
november 7 — december 19, 2009
vernissage: november 7, stoffwechsel essen, germany
all info: web version / print version


SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES
over at svenpiayda.com/photography
new cards available, ask for it!

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-10-20 rainbows and toilets - artist´s epiphany | entry by sven

i had to go to boesner in witten for creating the photogrphic works for the SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES exhibtition, to be opened in the stoffwechsel on november 7.
well, saturday afternoon in witten - what to do there?
due certain circumstances i have visited the elfringhauser schweiz
a few times , but felt myself disable to find it on my own. actually i was lucky and went on top of the berger hof, which appears like a sketch for an utopian world of peace between animals an humans.
running through the woods, we were always escaping the dark clouds and their wet falling gifts. finally we had a beautiful view on the landscape and a rainbow.
witnessing a rainbow is always magic, how can i put this magic into picture? it is always a challange. above you see a snippet of the work i have created. some makeover, but actually it shows the dramatically changing sky, the magic of the rainbow and the need to stop and watch.

i was travelling a lot within the last days, i returned to antwerp last friday to visit the M KHA. no doubt, this is a great museum, fantastic museal architecture, but i did´nt really find the outstanding stuff, i was looking for, but i found the toilets: entering the museum i found myself in front of these doors: men, artists and women. it was hard enough to define my male role through the last 20 years, now it seems like there was a third sex i have always assumed...

that´s a picture of me in one oth the three rooms. guess which one it is! you can win something: a three minute stay in your own bathroom.
well, artist, are you happy now?

once again: SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES (c)
over at svenpiayda.com/photography
new cards available, ask for it!

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-10-15 annex: expect me where you don´t expect me | entry by sven

wow! what was that? i went to roemont in the netherlands yesterday, for shopping reasons, actually. well, there are people who claim that i dress myself in the dark or show up in my pyjama, but i´m a fashion victim. while i was jumping from one designer store to the other, art stroke me! what was that? a pirate ship for kids? a futuristic church? joep van lieshout gone wrong? like everyone else i was surprised, like noone else, i was curious. i was going around, finding some explaination, this piece is called ANNEX and is a archetectural sculpture by rob voerman.
i was surprised to find a door and then moved in...
find more info over here


you know, these things are always poetic, they can surprisingly twist the ordinary. for me this is fun, these things never served me answers, but they help to find the right questions...

how can i live in an ordinary house anymore?
why does my house look like it does?
who thinks it should look like this?
and who thinks this could make me happier?



back into the container tonight: the oprea is over, the "opernbauhütte" is still on. hope to meet you at the BAUHUETTEBAR, rememeber:


once again: SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES (c)
over at svenpiayda.com/photography
new cards available, ask for it!

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-10-06 autumn update: SSSS, AEv and ZM´s ZL - questions? | entry by sven

wow, there are so many things happening at the moment, sometimes it is even hard to believe what was some days before...it is scary, and funny. while the weather is still panding between last days of summer and grey autumn, i find myself tired and sleeping a lot at the moment, but i´m really working hard on new stuff whenn awake...
now, here are some projects you should know about:

the next art exhibition is a solo show, entitled SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES. it will feature some of my pgotographs arranged in an new way plus a bundle of my video installation works, some never before seen. more info soon. all you need to know by now is: come around on november 7th, in essen, germany - more info tba, definitely here: svenpiayda.com/photography

ok, next thing: the AESTATEvisual project was originally planned as a one thime thing, but it appears to be a lot more successful than expected. we are looking forward to come up with more art (and probably performance shows) in the next years, so we are working on new output. it develloped into a kind of factory with a lot of technical and personal resources, there are new posters coming up, the next exhibition will feature more surprises. also, we are planning to do a new catalogue, less money - more works, but it takes time. trust me, we are working on that. the result is going to be something really beautiful.

additionally we are collection and generating stuff for upcoming videos. the small label portable music records will release two AESTATE EPs in 2010 and we are workong on new videos: counts is going to be an animated piece like prov aiida, but just pushing things forward. ingate will hopefully become a real footage piece with nature and animals - funny stuff, if it turnes out, hopefully.

next week will be the release of THE SENARY PROCESS. this album comes with a big innovation, it will be available as physical and digital version. therefor ZANY MUSIC had been redesigned to make it easy for you to get stuff. current releases will be there, it is fantastic, it has never been so chea and easy to get zm music! i hope you like it, please tell me how much and ask for special deals!!!

just a tiny snippet from a complex generated and processed print: the ilon poster will be exhibited and feature in the new catalogue in 2010.

once again: SETS, STILLS, STORIES AND STRUCTURES (c)
over at svenpiayda.com/photography


CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-09-25 jay says PORTRAIT is still cool | entry by sven

jay is known as the drummer of our band APOLOGIES, member of record of tides, conga player on euphoria, important opinion when it comes to music (and other things) and closest friend.
above you see us on a party in 2001, actually about the time when we were joining APOLOGIES. a little later jay decided to reduce his music-related activities, i decided to concentrate on the follow up to portrait: diptych.

jay knows best about my music, he knows all my solo works, even the strange electronica stuff.
unfortunately it is hard for us to stay in touch, our schedules are allways full and we agreed on having well planed to be spontaneous...

we are always lucky when getting us via phone, and that time he told me that portrait is still quite high in his charts on my music in his player. after all these years, we think it is still fresh. also, he said, the album would carry the spirit of that time, of summer 1999, the rising, growing up, getting ideas into action ... waiting to break through and at least getting into art.
it was a good time, and jay and i had the plans for APOLOGIES and our world tour...
thank you, jay.

find out what i´m tlaking about, win a 10th anniversary copy of portrait:

all you have to do is answer a question and mail it to the webmaster:

who is the main producer of PORTRAIT?

click here and tell us the name and win you portrait 10th anniversary copy!

hurry up!





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-09-21 10 years of PORTRAIT, get your anniversary edition | entry by ZM

next friday, sven piayda and zany music will celebrate the 10th anniversary of PORTRAIT, the first album by sven piayda, recorded in 1999 and released on zany music/rober-records in the same year.
portrait was and still is a masterpiece. sometimes a little old-fashioned and naive, but already giving the directions for all following releases, even AESTATE music is based on know-how and technology used and introduced for this friendly indie-pop album.

NEXT FRIDAY, september 25th, is the 10th anniversary of the first release. like the releaseparty back in 1999 (sven played some acustic versions supported by alec smith and co-producer thorsten ruby) the celebrations for portrait will be quite calm.

so we will tell you on september 25th what is going to happen and who has won a PORTRAIT 10TH ANNIVRSARY EDITION copy (pictured right above).
it features the full album plus bonustrack "hyperspace" and full /CAMP access.
all you have to do is to participate in the competition:
(you can use svennet for research)

all you have to do is answer a question and mail it to the webmaster:

who is the main producer of PORTRAIT?

click here and tell us the name and win you portrait 10th anniversary copy!







lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-09-14 the opernbauhütte re-opens - what´s the future | entry by sven

when things are over you tend to look back and imagine how it would be if it would not have ended, of if it would start again. the whole opernbauhütte-thing was important and a fantstic part of my life in 2009. all this linking between art, culture, opera, architecture and party in such a surrealistic geography really made me have a good time, made me meet great people and made me participate as an artist. now, the opera is over (see svennet news: 2009-07-06 the end of the opera... and aftermath) but what happens with the container builing?
we met on friday, a big BBQ, some beer, some ideas, nothing is safe so far, it will have a social relevance, it will be adapted by the youth around. so, there is no reopening to what it was in spring, but the "hütte" will remain at its place (which is a success in my eyes) and will be available for us in the future.
matthias rick opened the evening and gave some info on the future and finance schedule (see picture above). later we talked about further artistic projects, i don´t want to do more AESTATE stuff there, i guess we had enough, but we had some ideas and visions linking archetecture, nature and video. around christmas, probably, we´ll see.




to sum it up: it is great to see, this magic container will stay (hopefully longer than we expect it now) and will be used for many different outstanding actions.

once again: OPERNBAUHÜTTE TRANSFORMANCE (c)
over at svenpiayda.com/photography


CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-09-07 back to track and some forecast, hopefully | entry by sven

finding back into ordinary life, i had the chance to join the opening of the benjamin nachtwey exhibition at baustelle schaustelle. you may have a look on his paintings on his website, but you must see them on the wall. he seems to have found the perfect technique for painting the woods. we had a long chat about structure and compostition in the forest, on surface structure of painting and vanishing information and bringing back depth into a photograph by painting it. i have learned a lot, so can you. nachtwey has a strong idea and knows exactly what he is doing, and he is actually searching for the non-analytic thing in art, the undenyable beauty.
you can visit the exhibition for free, every friday, 4-6 pm, to october 10th, brigittastrasse 9, essen.



some forecast, hopefully: some of these news are surprising and funny. you know about the opernbauhütte thing, the whole process of joining, playing live with AESTATE, doing HDJ set, having a good time at the container. the project is over, but the container is still there. friday will be a meeting (i´ll do pictures hopefully) and we´ll see what to do with this building. more over, you should set your schedules for the AESTATEvisual final at september 18th. and for september 25th, that´s a special date, we will have a tiny party, maybe with you, you can win something. SEPTEMBER 25TH!!! no bells ringing? come on!!!

once again: OPERNBAUHÜTTE TRANSFORMANCE
over at svenpiayda.com/photography


CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-09-02 dropped out, reset and returning to susie | entry by sven

i was recording, rock songs, actually. this time i have no real album written, i just let it devellop, being excited about the direction to be disovered. while working in studio and making plans, a certain sickness made me drop out of work and life as usual. it is a kind of strange, how quickly things can change, how quickly they can turn around.
i have learned to see the postitive aspects in bad devellopments, so this sickness helped to reset myself a little, to cook and shift to healty food, i hope to keep this new direction.

anyway, being taken out of everything also meant to miss some dates which had been scheduled, which i would have loved to participate.
i had to cancel the seminar about media competence for which i was scheduled to hold at via stenden, i told you so the last time, when i thougt i could return a lot faster. we want to do that next year again, hopefully i can be there next year, cross you fingers!
also i was so excited about the AESTATE live gig at bitstream. i really wanted to do that, i was expecting the right audience there, and we had prepared extended visuals, we had some new tracks to interpret live. recently, there are no further live dates on schedule, we hope to come up again, we are working on a crossover thing between the art and the club site of AESTATE, hopefully to come up in 2010, it is going on, somehow. i do not want to tell to much, but we have so much material to come up with, have a look at the official AESTATE site, there will be some new sounds.
more to miss. i was also invited to go to cologne and i was planning to link a trip to music store or art of sound with it. the is not on a professional music store, it is also the birthplace of susie, my beloved axe and soundmate for eleven years now, she actually turned out to be the instrument i was always looking for. and i guess i will spend some more time with her, there are some new rock songs in need to be recorded.


talking about positive aspects of being dropped out: i finally found the tome to do some tiny set-ups for renderings. and here are some works: on the left: dropouts: a kind of photograph/video interaction, while the trees are strongly moved by the wind, the couple doesn´t move, seems like the are not effected by the wind, they just drop out of the world, the right screen shows their disappearance. looking at this work makes me think of the meeting point video. maybe the couple are the two daters, who finally find a happy end together...
on the right side is a still from searching. this is a completly digitally generated piece based upon the 2006 photograph with the same title, using textures of photographs from 2009. the camera is hovering over a strange and dark landscape, attached to a spot light searching for something. starting very calm, the movements are becoming more and more frantic, the tension is becoming more and more sinister.

more over at svenpiayda.com/photography

these works will never be found on the net, but i´m workin on new exhibitions, so you will have the opportunity to watch them.

how do you feel?

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-08-15 the fish restaurant at the edge of the world | entry by sven

oh, it is already august and i´m a little sick. i know we are still in summer, but i can feel the autumn coming up. anyway, the earlier i feel the end the earlier i like to look back. this summer i had the chance to spend some days in the netherlands and belgium, and for a fish head like me the is the duty to go out to have some real good fish.
the restaurant we have found is the one pictured above. it is called REST DE POLDERKAMER and is a must see. the fish was great, the service outstanding, the atmosphere somewhere between kitsch and strange. it felt like we had found something which was somewhere outside, far out, near the edge of the world...


this is a pic i have taken on the inside, i looks like the KRUSTY KRAB from spongebob, don´t you think?
i want to go back one day, for the meantime, you may like to visit them: mülenweg 2, 4493 ac kamperland.
(i couldn´t find it on google maps, but if you click here you will get as close as i got...)
more fish, always.


ok, i´m looking forward to my media seminar in via stenden next week (sorry tis isn´t public, but i will come up with some pics probably)
and then we will do AESTATE live for the last time this year and in september we will close the AESTATEvisual exhibition. i hope, you will join us there, and no worries, i have plans for after that!

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-07-31 works on paper and incident bundles in düsseldorf | entry by sven

due some strange incidents i was booked into a lindner hotel in duesseldorf to attempt the current exhibition of the museum kunst palast. a catalogue was sent even weeks before, a fantastic catalogue. no doubt, the exhibition is fantascally curated and presented, giving an overview on changing sujets and techniques of the last 400 years. no doubt it was really running you over, too much, too massive, maximum qality and quantity.
i have to admit, i was so much into postmodern contemporary that i always stated a lack of interest for old masters, - what a shame. the more i see the more i get an idea of the fascination of the older stuff.

next to that i would like to tell something about the surrounding things... the idea was simple, travel by train, check into the hotel and visit the exhibition. but there was more: a visit to the tourist´s riverside, which turned out to be extremely boring. we found ourselves on a wine fest searching for the sweetest bogunder, stumbled into a rollerblade parade and started a private party in the big penthouse suite with a balcony!.

additionally, we found art books in every book shop we visited - most of them twice. actually, that have been the most decadent days i can think of, even for my standards!


lost and found: the picture above shows my installation of the devine masterplan back in the world heritage zollverein 2001 and the same location some weeks ago. i was there incidentally some weeks ago, funny, isnt it? i just post it now, because i will use the ART section to illustrate some of my installations and past works. there is a lot going on these days, so i need some stucture.

do not forget the AESTATEvisual exhibition, it turned out to be a lot better than expected...
next screening date: august 1st,
you will meet me there.

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-07-27 i went into a museum and pissed into a sculpture | entry by sven

within the last week i had the chance to visit rotterdam twice. i was relaxing, collection visual material (of course) and tried to see some art in the big museums in rotterdam. on my first visit, i got lost in the city. actually, we wanted to visit museum boijmans van beuningen, but we were not shure, if it would be the right thing...
so we were looking for some contemporary art at witte de with which was currently exhibiting billy apple´s work, which appeared very conceptual but boring to us. after checking out the local record stores and fast-wok-restaurants, we returned to boijmans, but it was to late to enter, no matter how big the collection was expected to be, one hour was surely not enough to run through it.
so, we had to return.
and so we did, our second visit was scary: we stumbled dirctly into the rotterdam summer carnival, wich looked like a brasilian version of our loveparade.
but then there was time and we got into the museum.
wow: i have never before seen such a big collection, starting with old masters up to contemporary, perfectly presented and curated, educative and entertaining...
it must have took three hours to get through it ad it was worth every cent.
let me tell you something about the headline: in the museum, in the middle between the the cafe and the applied design collection i met the master´s work again.
joep van lieshout did the toilet installation, which was actually in use!!! so you could actually piss into a sculpture, into a real piece of contemporary art. do you see the innovative spirit? the link between art, design and archetecture? and the humour?


in case that you are reading the journal more often, you may know joep and his atelier van lieshout due the great installations in the museum folkwang last year for slave city and its BarRectum (see above).
i guess it have displayed my fascination on in last year...

i guess my idea of rotterdam was always something about stupid hadcore techno, but on afternoons it seems to be the ity of art. when i went throughj the streets i met two specific works that striked me imediately (i guess i know what they are, if i´m wrong, please correct me...): on the left: franz west sculptures functioning as benches, inviting you to sit on them near the water. on the right: a dwarf with a bell and a dildo by paul mccarthy, well, you must be quite brave to put such a piece on the mrket place, right???

do not forget the AESTATEvisual exhibition, it turned out to be a lot better than expected...
next screening date: august 1st,
you will meet me there.

CONSOLATION in the /CAMP





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-07-17 forward, straight forward | entry by sven

usually, summer is the time to relax and to have a good time, and usually i spend some days in studio. i haven´t so far this year, becuase i´m very much into video and video installations.
after having the manic behaviour of being in need to photograph everything, now i´m in need to film everything...
still i keep photographing, but even when things are moving or if there is a bigger story to tell, video seems to be the better choice.
i hope to do a solo art show in autumn, so i want to produce some more stuff. i have already told you about the "meeting point" thing.

it is work and stress sometimes, but first of all it it is fun. above you see a picture of me taken during (after???/before???) filming and directing my latest work windmill water pump.


above you see a still of the black and white splitscreen video. it is simply about a loop. while the windmill water pump pumps up water from a river just to lead it back some feet away, the two screens show the same order of shots at different times, all in beautiful ansel adams black and white. you can only hear the river while watching the windmill spinning eternaly.

for the meantime: do not forget the AESTATEvisual exhibition, it turned out to be a lot better than expected...next screening date: august 1st,
you will meet me there.

i will be back in studio within the next weeks, because i have some new songs, not a full album, but great stuff. you know, the album recorded last year hasn´t been released yet, but we will hopefully do that in 2009.


hurry up, the next single will be consolation (edit) from the upcoming album the senary process. it will be released via /CAMP as three track ep mp3 bundle plus cover in printable quality.
it is a great song with a lot of power, riffing and lead guitars, and well, touching lyrics,
exited?

if you haven´t seen or downloaded the AESTATE synfex counts (live) video from the /CAMP so far, do it now, it will be taken off the /CAMP soon.





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-07-10 confessions of a vivid mind | entry by sven

there is a lot going on these days, i thought i should probably come up with some text and some pictures to keep. above you see flint and me in front of the sportscar factory of wiesmann.
they are a small family factory producing custom cars with red dot awarded design and pushed BMW engines for maximum power and luxury.

did i mention they are not the cheapest on the market? flint and me thought abot moving together into a small shed to pay a common leasing contract for a second hand wiesmann roadster.
unfortunatly, no-one wanted to sell something to us,
do we look so poor?


and here we approached the techno-temple in dülmen.
i do not know for which reason, but they use a salamnder as logo, so their factory, selling rooms an everythin is build into a house which looks like a salamander, filled with the most expensive second hand cars i have ever seen.
flint was impressed by the well organized factory and mechanic rooms, yes, everything was clean and transparent, luxury has to be serious.


however, find out yourself:
wiesmann | wiesmann.com

there was another funny project: after hanging around with flint having some days off we had a funny idea. as i am playing around with video art these days and as flint models or acts sometimes for me we had the idea to transform a photograph we did together into a video work! the photograph was called meeting point and was executed in 2006. this work is a big tableau using narrative structures. as it is called meeting point and as it shows a single person waiting we get the idea of a date to take place, a boy waiting for a girl, who is not showing up. (this is probably what a story is about: a conflict or something i sdevelloping into a different directin than expected.)
so it was clear to us, that we need an actress to show the girl, and maybe her story.
once again, i used this split screen view (see above) and i have used it differently to my other video works.
for me it was the first time of directing with actors, i wanted to make sure that everyone knows what to do, so i would not have to scream around on set. cordula (our acress) and flint got a short briefing and then we drove to the location we had aready used for the photograph.

unfortunately we had big problems with the cameras, the power supply and the data storge, so we had to make sure to do everything quickly.
it worked. the actors did a perfect job, i was keeping an eye on the timeline, silent directing for not destroying the on stage sound.

there are already some screenshots on the internet, but the video installation will be exhibited later this year.



the only production still: cordula, flint and myself hanging around afterwards.
have a closer look: the actors aready relaxed, me thinking about editig the material...
this is the biggest fun of all, coming tohgerther and produce something, don´t you think?

a final review to the white nights: playing it every year, we never managed to watch the drei groschen oper by berthold brecht. this year we were lucky, very lucke, it was brilliant, funny, exploring the human focus on money and power coverd with pretended friendship and love. thank you for this big cultural fun.

before it started, there were some bad news: no white nights in 2010. hm, no AESTATE in white nights next year. not big plays
. what to do instead???

if you haven´t seen or downloaded the AESTATE synfex counts (live) video from the /CAMP so far, do it now, it will be taken off the /CAMP soon, something ne is coming up. exited?





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-07-04 chromekraut after the deluge | entry by sven

that was a strange approach to the white nights. due the heavy thunderstom the theatre play was cancelled, the catering closed, only expensive wine left... and no water!!! well, the audience remained a small one, the park was adorned a usually, but no play, just music.
around 10 pm at dusk the avant garde supergroup chromekraut entered the stage, alex gunia among them. the performance was noisy and harmonic, teasing and torturing... well, all this electronic experimental avantgarde seemed to me like a pioneer work for AESTATE next year, don´t you think?

let me say some words on alex gunia: there are some things worth mentioning: i know him from the guitar magazines back in the days when we defined us as guitarists - not as musicians. like me, gunia transformed from mastubative shredding into art avant garde, into searching for the cultural future, not faster copying...
next to that he has transfomed his own appearence again and agin, from the long hair metal guy to the bearded geek to the bold headed interlectual. these are stronger transformations than gary oldman and david bowie in common. (and that`s a lot ;-)


find out:
chromekraut | realtime-reseach.net
alex gunia | alexgunia.de

i have never seen this park so empty during the white nighs. thank god, the stage wasn´t blown away...

if you haven´t seen or downloaded the AESTATE synfex counts (live) video from the /CAMP so far, do it now, it will be taken off the /CAMP soon, something ne is coming up. exited?





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-07-02 white nights 2009 | entry by sven

it is kind of scary how fast a year just rushes by...
since i have joined the white nights in 2006 for the first time, i´m fanatic about this event. such a beatiful park, combined with light installations, outside plays, music, and movies...
i really like to join it every year, this time it features five days of high quality entertainment.
i could join yesterdays performance of bohren and the club of gore
because of my own appearance at the opernbauhütte, but i hope i can manage to see as much as possible.

you can have a look at the program yourself over here





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-06-27 DUALITY 1-3 / eichbaumoper / AE@OBB_S | entry by sven

wow, that´s been a busy week and the main part isn´t over yet. these days just rush by, feels like i´m doing a hundred things at one time...
the DUALITY1-3 installation last tuesday was a great success, the full exhibition of kunst cluster comes up with quality and quantity, it´s great to be a part of it. after starting the screening we had to make sure there is sound, and now there is sound, afterwards we had a beerr and an improvised barbeque .. a good reason to spend your time on art, right???



tonight it is a great pleasure to me to finally visit the eichbaumoper. we did not really join the project as opera contributors, but had our part in transforming the opernbauhuette and the eichbaum station as well.
i really hope there is a future for the container and the social and creative power which was unleashed, but i´m realistic. i fear the future will be as dark as its past. i don´t know, maybe all thigs have their time.


guntram walter did a photographic ducumenty on the premiere over here:

i heard the eichbaumoper recieved bad critics, but i will judge this on my own. you how the press works. actually, there is a short article on the upcoming AESTATEvisual art show in coolibri. i really tried to express shortly what the AESTATEvisual thing is all about, and now it is turned into something ridiculous. you know how the press works, you should know better, i should have known better,

we did the AESTATE live set last wednesday and we will return next wednesday as HDJs.
video and some pic ahead.
above is a tiny preview, our visuals on the top of the eichbaum station during our live set and dj kong king´s hdj set afterward.
big fun...me on the rund, to many dates, recently.
i need some days off, i will report on the AESTATE/EICHBAUM thing next week, and wil join (and report probably) the upcoming white nighs. there i´m just joining the show. more on white nights here..soon.







lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-06-11 SUPERFLAT review / AESTATE return | entry by webmaster

jahrgangsgeraeusche have published a review on AESTATE´s current album "superflat". you can find the article over here:
www.jahrgangsgeraeusche.de/?p=1666


additionally you might like to have a look on their other reviews:
/www.jahrgangsgeraeusche.de/?cat=476

there is more:
AESTATE will return to the opernbauhuette:
this is what we have found on www.eichbaumoper.de

24.6. Premierenfeier mit Aestate
Electronic, Experimental, Intelligent Dance Musik and Visuals
Nach ihrem Gastspiel bei der Eröffnung der Opernbauhütte zur temporären Kunsthalle kommen Essen´s Ausnahme-Elektroniker nun zurück: AESTATE spielen ihr audiovisuelles Live-Set im Anschluß an die Premiere der Eichbaumoper am 24.06.09 und schlagen den Bogen zwischen Club und Kultur, Architektur und Kunst. Dabei paßt ihre Performance perfekt an diesen Ort, ähnlich der Opernbauhütte unterliegen auch ihre Musik und Visuals der ständigen Transformation.

1.7. Als große Freunde des Projekts bedanken sie sich AESTATE mit einem HDJ SET.







lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-06-08 these are my sounds, my beats, my melodies | entry by thorsten

at the site music.gumball.de, you can download some ideas and tracks of me (36 at all). all of them have never been published, except at live gigs on stage. some of them are solo tracks and maybe stuff for my solo project wion, others have been produced for my former band expose reality. however, some ideas and tracks will be used again sometimes.

www.music.gumball.de


these are my sounds, my beats, my melodies
www.music.gumball.de

www.expose-reality.de

www.wion-beats.de






lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-05-30 bernardette la hengst´s opernbauhuette impact | entry by sven

bernadette la hengst did a songwriting workshop at the opernbauhuette yesterday, producing authentic hiphop tunes featuring the youth around the eichbaum.
she will also show up in the "eichbaumoper" which will be premiered on june 24th, 2009.

bernardette presented the results of the second (field-)recording session as rough mixes from the eichbaum, and performed live afterwards.
all you need is a laptop, a guitar and a brilliant voice mixed up with
critic but funny lyrics and an outstanding performance. it seems to be so easy to do a perfect performance.
once again, there was only a small audience, even smaller than at last weeks AESTATE gig.

allways shocking but still a fact, quality and success never collaborate, and a question like drone hovering over the opernbauhütte: "where have you been?"


raumlabor berlin´s opernbauhuette documentary
well, the opernbauhuette is a magic place, everyone is taking pictures of it, so do i. more or less, every corner of it has been photographed, what can i do to do something special about it?
it turned out that i had some views of a certain point and i decided to go on with that. actually, i´m generating a series of quite neutral photographs, which show the transformation over time. and if you would know this place, you might undersatnd:
transformation is what it is all about!


today: new grafitti on the huette.
how do spend your time? turn on the lights!





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-05-25 are you ready to enter the END? | entry by sven

gregor schneider is something like a contemporary pop star of postmodern art, many people are afraid of this ordinary looking guy who is just (re-)bulding rooms. his recent work is called END and is exhibited, or better say, transforming the museum abteiberg in moenchengaldbach, his home town. (here also is his home base and base work, the DEAD HOUSE UR, rhydt) i have seen the black entry on pictures before, it always looked so strange, i thougt they were photoshopped, but actually it looks this way. this big black mouth had been on my mind for weeks when i finally visited the museum last saturday.

this is a new way to enter the museum, stepping up the ladder, walking into compleate darkness. usually, you would prefer to go where the light is, but here you have to find a way through the darkness. so what is in there? well, darkness, a coffee room and a lot more. the interesting thing is not what you will find, the interesting thing is: what happens to yourself? the compleat disconnection of space and time, disorientation, fear and at least true horror. staying horror. i think good art can have an effect on you, and this one had an effect: i was scared of my own appartment, the walls turned evil and you´ll will be afraid of the dark. no idea?
find out yourself, no excuses!
but keep in mind: jake and dinos chapmans´s hell was a funny birthday party compared to END.

here is libella´s blog entry (german)

collected links:
(be aware of spoilers):

museum abteiberg info on END

the opening of END on german tv (video)

gregor schneider in END on german tv (video)

building the END (video)

gregor schneider official site

how do spend your time? turn off the lights!





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-05-10 lucky luke / "wo war eigentlich rantanplan?" | entry by libella

Der Held meiner Kindheit - Lucky Luke - befreit die Bewohner der Heimaterde von Billy the Kid und ihr wart nicht da? Selber schuld! Der Ort - ein ganz ungewöhnlicher: die Haltestelle EICHBAUM der U-Bahn-Linie U18 zwischen Mülheim und Essen.

Genau der richtige Ort also für eine ungewöhnliche Aufführung: Dirigiert von einem Banjospieler folgten die Zuschauer dem Team vom Schauspiel Essen rund um den EICHBAUM wie dem Rattenfänger von Hameln. Dabei waren sie so nah am Geschehen dran, dass manch einer sogar vorsorglich vom Leichenbestatter vermessen wurde. Und das Publikum bekamen einen Western geboten, der alles hatte, was dazu gehört: Schießereien, einen kakaotrinkenden Bösewicht, einen Postkutschenraub, einen Saloon mit Bonbons und Mohrenkopfbrötchen und natürlich ein Duell mit einem waschechten Helden: Lucky Luke auf seinem treuen Freund Jolly Jumper - einem etwas in die Jahre gekommenen Damenfahrrad. Und wie es sich gehört, landete Billy the Kid am Ende im Kittchen.


Es war alles ein großer Spaß; vor allem durch die gelungene Improvisationsleistung der Schauspieler - die mussten nämlich immer wieder auf die klugen Einwände der Kinder im Publikum reagieren und dabei aufpassen, dass sie sich trotzdem noch an ihr Skript halten. Doch tapfer wie Helden nun mal sind, hielten sie durch und bezwangen sogar Matsch und Regen. Blieb am Ende nur die Frage: Wo war eigentlich Rantanplan?

Ein paar sehr gelungene Fotos vom Auftritt findet ihr hier:
lucky luke by guntram walter

(thanks for these great photos!)


Mir jedenfalls hat das Stück so gut gefallen, dass ich mir am 29.05. gleich das nächste in der Reihe "Helden unserer Jugend" ansehen werde; diesmal wieder am eigentlich Aufführungsort, der Heldenbar im Grillotheater in Essen. Was dann gezeigt wird? Der gute alte "Räuber Hotzenplotz" - natürlich mit Kasperl, Seppel und Petrosilius Zwackelmann.

Alle Infos zu den "Helden unserer Jugend" findet ihr unter:
Schauspiel Essen


Alle Infos zur Eichbaumoper findet ihr unter:
Eichbaumoper

AESTATE live @ opernbauhütte/eichbaum
more info here


plus:
just another container pic added, see svenpiayda.com/photography -> projects



how do spend your time?





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-05-03 interim spin-offs: billy the kid and 100 guitars | entry by sven

may is the month i probably wait for each year, because it definitely feels like summer. sun, asparagus and some days off, so what...?
i´m busy and relaxed at the same time, wich i have spend perfectly on my "THIS IS ROCK AND ROLL THE UNIVERSE" - rockumentary seminar evening. i wanted to do an feature for svennet, but i preferred to spend the days outside, so what about you?
i´m really busy with new photographic works (and related exhibition shows) as well as with all the upcoming AESTATE dates. i want to come up with something unique every time, so there is a lot to do. next to the upcoming gig at the opernbauhuette on may 21st, we are preparing the visual retrospective (even AEvisual artist pointy bell is working like a machine on it) including a catalogue and so on. date an venue to be announced soon.
as you see, there is somuch to do at this time, so let´s have a look on what our friends are doing in the meantime: (i really hope to join everything, so cross your fingers and join us!)

UPDATE 2009-05-06
2009-05-08, 7 pm
Lucky Luke und Billy the Kid, more info here
2009-05-09, 10 am (taken off my schedule)
100 guitars beyer´s flea market, more info here
2009-05-09, 7 pm
Düsseldorf's Night of the Museums, more info here
2009-05-21, 6 pm
AESTATE live @ opernbauhütte/eichbaum, more info here

how do spend your time?





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-04-27 fear of joy / joy of fear: ART COLOGNE 2009 | entry by sven

every year, about spring, there are these four days of art fair in cologne. a must see and place to be for me, usually i do not visit this fair on sundays (usually you are compleatly exhausted in the end) but this year i had to go there on saturday. surprisingly, it was the smallest AC i have seen in nine years, it was not too little, not at all, but it shouldn´t be smaller.

i missed every reports in the media, i only had the dates, it appeard like a strange dream or a leap in time, suddenly i was there again...a big highlight in spring, realizing the year is moving on...

let´s start with a masterpiece, and a masterpiece expirience. we entered the first hall and turned into an installation of photographs of trees. yeah, nothing special, right? i have develloped a weakness for surprisingly ordinary looking pictures. and here robert voit (a thomas ruff class graduate) shows - let´s call it portraits - neutral but extremely beautiful and touching pictures of trees. great work, nothing special so far, but wait...there is more: actually voit´s new trees (the name of the series) turn out to be mobile phone areal masts, camouflaged as trees of the surrounding landscape.
this adds a comleatly new layer to his work. it´s amusing. and shocking. funny and scary.
i didn´t even know these "things" exist, did you?
there i so much about the culture on the planet you live on you do not even know about...

i really was fascinated of this work, and just for fun, i asked one of the gallery assitances for catalogue. she was very kind and gave one of these rare books to me for free, i was so lucky, later the the catalogues turned into expensive gallery items...
(my new art friend pointy bell refused to spend mony on something that i could get for free...)

anyway, these photography works have be the most outstanding photo work i have seen for long, so, have a look on robert voit´s site (you should remember his name, and buy all his works)

www.robertvoit.com

next to all the art, the people there are amusing to watch, this is what my companions said. well, i was only fascinated by a woman with a pink, (or violet?) blue, white, balck...whatever dress. i won´t make fun of anyone´s fashion, i know, i´m also looking like a parot - a dead, monochrome parot. a pale ex-parot? you know, style is the opposite of fashion, right?

anyway, i followed the pink lady around the corner, shocked be a big klaus-kinski-head. funny, sure, and, shocking, once again.

more, more, more. left you see a piece by christoph schlingensief. he is one of my favourites these days, i do not understand his work, his films, his plays, his art...no, not at all, but i like to listen to him talking, i´m sure, he knows what he is doing and that is enough for me.
on the right side you see an installation with a record disc which has only one track, a loop, making sttange groove noises. (pointy bell believed in hearing a heartbeat. i don´t know, but she is right very often)
in the glass cabinet next to it a rubic´s cube with white sides only. "that´s a challange", i said to myself, watching to gallerists being very amused.

i´m an artist on the one hand, but an art collector (and an art lover) on the other. i have pieces (sometimes only editions) by eija-liisa ahtila, phoenix, david bowie, pointy bell, edda gerusel and now even julian opie. he has develloped a very unique but simple language in visual expression. his works exhibited of dancing modles are funny and perfect pieces. i needed to buy stuff, so i found (and bought) this flip-book of shanoza and ann dancing.
have a look at julian opie´s inspiring and extremely great designed site:

www.julianopie.com

oh, maybe you would like to have a look itno the other book i´ve bought...

ART NOW #3

this day was fantastic. it was entertainig, scary and amusing and big fun, anyway. i guess i´m on the right track with art, in general and in especially with mine. i´m working on new stuff and art shows right now. please check back soon, there will be great stuff in 2009, don´t miss it!





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-04-18 the flamma piayda complex compleated | entry by sven

wow, that was a long day in studio, and a good one. you know, the flamma piayda complex is a band, or project, however you want to call it, with a big problem of time, so there is not much time. yesterday we started with nothing, except some old riffs. we managed it to come up with a great rock song, we even discovered our trademark sound!

sebastian states in our official blog:
The Truth Is Outside... waiting to be found. We actually finished recording Song No. 10, which is called "The Truth Is Outside". It's a great mixture of Independent Rock and Metal and 80's The Sisters Of Mercy Sounds and some nice Blues elements and outstanding lyrics. We will soon upload something new for you, so... stay tuned for updates!

well, that´s it. ten songs done, we never wanted to do more for the first album. ten songs, about 60 minutes, that should be enough...
so let´s see what´s happening next...


once again, above you see sebastian flamma doing some producer work, below the "band" outside, somehow tilted.
a release
date? well, we are searching for an appropriate way to put it out.

www.flammapiayda.de





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-04-05 folkwang closes, seeya in the capital of culture | entry by sven

today, was a cloudy but almost warm day, today is probably over in about seven minutes. today appears somehow historically, today, was the last day, the museum folkwang had opened it´s doors to see the outstanding paul graham exhibition.

i had the cance to see it some weeks ago, it was great, even with all the events following (you know, visiting a museum always end up in a hedonistic super-event, i know how to live properly...)

i watched a lot about paul graham on tv, there was a report about his photographs and intentions, he was taking the underground in my city...strage, familiar and funny. his work is documentary on the one hand, deeply romantic on the other, sometimes morr the one, sometimes more the other
the museum folkwnag is closing today to link the old part wit the new one to be reopened in 2010, as essen´s main museum, in the city wich will claim to be the capital of culture...let´s see what my part is within this cultural, local, and finally personal resurrection.


the musem fokwang has a long history. for me, it is a great part of my own way of finding identity as an artist, waching shows by thomas ruff, william turner and atelier van lieshout to name a few, not to forgert all the group exhibitions. thank you, i´m looking forwart to 2010, there will be a lot to come, i guess.





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-04-02 datamilch on KD09, designing the future | entry by sven

due some funny incidents i had the chance to join the exhibition of graduates of the design department of the bergische universität wuppertal. allthough the internet site appeared not that teasing, the exhibition was, coming up with different projects and syles. there had been works dealing with corporate designs for restaurants and zoos, bible covers, illustrated statistics and different noises canned in tiny black cubes. all in all very inspiring and entertaining. brobably the most impressive work (to me) was the collection of short spots called "bist du ein forscher?" by sebastian gimmel.
well, these tiny animations are so cute, lovely and funny, making you laugh out loud, and somehow reminding me of michel gondry´s work and childesque self of being curious and interested. i had the chance to meet the artist and to get one of his strictly limited dvds. (yeah!) he told me he didn´t even know gondry´s work, but made it more nessesary to have a look on his stuff. you can do that over at datamilch, gimmel´s well presented website:

sebastian gimmel

datamilch.de

plus: bist du ein forscher?
bistdueinforscher.de

the design department has just moved into a new bulding, perfectly arranged on the inside, playing trick on your perception. design is a big game, and here they know how to play entertainingly, triangles turn into polygons and back, sensless graffitis turn into signs...and back.

well, i´m getting old, probably, so i´d like to show the old stuff again and again. once again, sichtwerk02, me participating for the first time. oh, and directing, probably for the first time...






DJ GENERAL PIAYDA BAD TASTE SET LIMITED TIME ONLY


lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-03-21 the eichbaum grows: high life in the opernbauhütte | entry by sven

fortunately i had the chance to join the eichbaum consortium again. here i had the chance to meet photographer guntram walter, see above.(find out about his work over here) hm, two photohraphers, some ideas on imagery, some space...why not do a show together?
well you know, there are always so may ideas in the orbit, an so little time to do so. we discovered accidently that we begin creating our work from different starting point, but coming up with similar imagery and same sublime magic in the end.
let´s ses what our limited time allows us to do, but a duo exhibition show as a dialogue of our work and believes ould be great...

there so many great ideas around and the spring sun even pushes my actionism to a maximum.
raumlabor berlin architect matthias rick was also open minded for some cross-discilpline events in the future, so let´s see what is going to happen next...
i was even asked to do som documentary photographs of the "opernbauhütte", so i did and edited my archives. i hope these photos wil be shown soon on the net, i will feed you with some snippets anyway, see above.
still no idea what an "opernbauhütte" is?
just watch the movie below - and join us!







DJ GENERAL PIAYDA BAD TASTE SET LIMITED TIME ONLY


lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-03-14 hive goth my mind made up / you goat maya art uno | entry by sven

mtv sucks, no doubt. introduced as music television you only find doubtful dating shows of stupid sex-addicted teenagers and once-upon-a-time-celebs looking for new "partners" by brainless games and a lot grabbing. whenever you are lucky enough to find a music video, you will brobably end up with beyonce.
thank god, somehow, sometimes there is cool stuff. the young british group metronomy comes up with "a thing for me", directed by megaforce.
actually, this is one of the funniest and most creative pices i have seen for a long time, it reminds me of turner´s "head in the sky" (2008-07-31 head in the sky)

the song is quite hot chip style (good choice) and the video appears as a strange karaoke sing-a-long video, the leading ball knocking out the band members and additional performers, while the simple lyrics transform into non-sense phonetic sound-a-likes...
this piece is intelligent and extremely funny, realy worth watching, thank you, mtv.
you don´t understand? have a look yourself, enjoy:






DJ GENERAL PIAYDA BAD TASTE SET LIMITED TIME ONLY


lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-03-12 imagine you´re driving fast, rolling sculptures | entry by sven

creating art can be based on different reasons. as an artist i have worked with different diciplines, some more some less serious. as i´m also telling more than enough about the serious part, i´d like to tell something about the less serious one, for a good reason.
sometimes i find myself in the condition of feeling able or in need to produce something, often i play around with household materials. as a boy, i have a strong interest in cars. sure, it is about driving fast and blatancy on the one hand, but also on percepting the design as an applied sculptural work on the other. so i was playing around with wax even last year (2008-02-05 my wax car) and created a vw golf as massive wax sculpture. nice and useless. see below:

the tv offered some more inspiration: i witnessed a test drive of a car, i have never heard of before: the FORNASARI RR600. (you will get some background info here) it looked like a SUV, some cayenne, some corvette, only two doors, extremely massive, strong and fast. (don´t forget, full leather interiour!)
i would buy this car straight away, but i cannot effort it, there are even no toy models of fornasari cars available, so i though i will have to build (or better say sculpture my own: i merged a ford fiesta and a hummer h2 togerther. the result is the aggressive power vehicle you see above. maybe i should show it to ford to build it...but i won´t.
you know what happened when kurt cobain presented his idea of his perfect guitar to fender? he wanted to do a modified mixture of a jaguar and mustang. they sent him home. only some years after his tragic death the fender jag-stang was available...




DJ GENERAL PIAYDA BAD TASTE SET LIMITED TIME ONLY


lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-03-03 flint´s samlmon massacre III review / radio | entry by sven

the bigger the better! what to do with so much salmon? what flint started three years ago as a special and exclusive tiny circle meeting has grown to a big party already. and that was a full house, even full of non-fish-addicts, thank god! after being fed up to the top with fish the years before, the hungry mob had shown a lack of mercy. as always, flint managed to create outstanding side dishes, vegetable soup, a remarkable mushroom soup, ordeuveres, dips, bred, and good wine along hipster braned beer. no doubt, the inner exclusive circle has opened for the masses.
a tiny tear remains, there is never enough salmon, we stay exited for next year. the sea is full of fish left to eat, isn´t it?



also, you know i´m taking pictures all the time, and i captured a shot of this thing above, and it wasn´t easy, what do you think it is??? inspiring, anyway, don´t you think?


UPDATE: above you see a pic (actually two pics merged together) which was taken about 3 pm on the ruhrtalbrücke (with my new mobile phone). it was such a beatiful sky, i could not resist. i feel like haven´t seen blue sky so far this year, what about you? i´m looking forward to dive into spring. for the meantime: you can download a lager version of the image via clicking on it! have fun!

ATTENTION: we are recently very successful with AESTATE, we are planning and preparing upcoming live shows and output which you would not have expected...
but, time to tune in:
tonight, dj paradroid will do an AESTATE feature on his Radio Re/Version online radio show, starting at 11 pm, today, march 3rd.

click here to go to neurobeat radio and to tune in or
simply click here to download the tiny patch and to tune in. do not miss it!

stay tuned for updates!



DJ GENERAL PIAYDA BAD TASTE SET LIMITED TIME ONLY


lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-02-23 performance release and bad taste | entry by sven

it is a long and cold winter. i feel we are always sick when it comes to our long planned events. thanks for joining us! it was quite short, our special guest mr flamma had to leave early because of a tight schedule, performance dvd director ms best was also tired, live performance photographer flint more than ready for the floor, but had to keep his power for the party to come. we also had some fans there craving for the physical releases.
it was big fun, a good time, but short and calm, we, the hard working people) forgot how to party hard, but then...


like last year, i was asked to come up with some tunes once again, this time it was all about bad taste. well, i wasn´t the only dj this night, and so there was a larger amount of tracks to play around with. and yes, there was a lot of stuff from the eighties we hoped to be forgotten. you know, bad taste is fun, but it hurts. in the end it is just to make people dance, and there some simple things to know about some principles:
justice (even as remixers) allways works. the prodigy as well, surprisingly the smashing pumpkins, and allways the beastie boys.
just to let you know. (for you own party)
you can download my set for limited time only in the /CAMP. (please keep in mind, this is not how it was performed, this is just the pool of tracks. we just had lady gaga, britney, mgmt and the prodigy)
why don´t you ask me for a good taste dj set???

no excuses, coming up: FSM3

stay tuned for updates!





lost in reality


sven | pentagrooveAESTATEthe flamma piayda complex
questions? complaints?
click here


2009-02-12 bad taste party dj | entry by sven

last year was a long one, i guess. after experimenting a lot with my disc collection on parties, i did the most conceptual, or let´s say the most serious approach to djing on february 23rd, 2008. the result can still be listened to in the /CAMP. now, about one year later, the party goes on. i was asked again to dj and confirmed immediately. i do not know, what it is going to be like this year, but it is going to be bad taste fashion. i will probably not come up with a fixed dj set as last year, this time it is going to be more flexable. let´s see, it will be big fun anyway, so, that´s it for the moment.

flint´s salmon mssacre III had been delayed. there was a date scheduled, but now it is delayed to a later evening. the main problem is to organize all these dates. the great thing about it is: flint cam up with the official FSM3 poster, here it is:

fantastic, isn´t it`? any updates and need-to-knows:
check the journal.


in the meantime we are setting up the digital release of the AESTATEperformance mp3 bundle.
on february 20th and later you will be able to download the full live set as 4 mp3 files plus a cd cover in printable quality. the /CAMP wil also feature an exclusive video clip of AESTATE performing synfex/counts live at the audiodigitale.

the /CAMP can be accessed via svennet, aestate-online.com and the zany music site.

if you do not have a username and password,
please tell us, and sign up.
it is cool, and it´s free!

so long, and thanks for the fish...


all the best for 2009,
we are looking forward to joining you!


sven | pentagrooveDJ GENERAL PIAYDA: download feb23 set on may 8th - in the /CAMP flamma | piaydaAESTATE

questions? complaints?
click here


2009-02-07 flint´s salmon massacre III ahead | entry by sven

i´m sorry to repeat myself, but the first months of a year are always about to find direction. and here is the good thing about getting older: most things do not happen for the first time, so it is a lot easier to handle, and to keep it relaxed, of course. fixed points are always helpful to figure out your actual position, whether in space or in time. well, there is christmas, easter, some birthdays and flint´s salmon massacre. as flint and i (as well as many more of our friends) are addicts to omega acid 3, we are looking forward to everthing flint creates of some kilos of salmon. it is a tradition we started off three years ago, i remember being ill (but joining) last year, but this year i´m sure we´ll celebrate an fish overkill.
you are not into fish? hm, zero tolerance from my point of view, but be sure to be confronted with some pics from the massacre. tender red, mostly...

there are some ideas in my head spinning around i´d like to share with you. it is about a tiny hobby: video. you know, we have develloped a typical video language for aestate, using random footage or computer generated images and films.

recently i´m working on a treatment for the upcoming sven single and probably a video.
back in 2006 when scandinavian came out, i had this idea with the playground, i shot it before i thought about processing it in a surrealistic way according to the song. that worked pretty good. it is funny and strange at the same time, all quite non-professional.
in 2007 i wanted to come up with a video for actually. i had this treatment inspired by the nothing compares 2 u video. i wanted to do one shot of targia moving her lips to the song, making it dramatic and surrealistic t the same time, my voice out of her mouth. we never put it into action, we ran out of time, unfortunately. so, this video never happend, allthough the idea was good, as we thoght. now - two years later - i see a new song (probably a tiny ep) approaching from the horizon, and i´m thinking about a video. i´m not going to tell you what the song is about, but generally it is about trying and failing, starting from the worst point and therefor never really having a chance to succeed. so, by the one or the other circumstance i draw the connection to goethes elfking (erlkönig) in connecton with the double meaning with the prototype masquerade of test versions of upcoming car models. well, i did some filming of dark streets, processed in a very visually artistic way, i did some test photos of me as masked prototype elfking bringing bad news...
i guess, all of these ides are useful, except for the fact that i do not like to act in front of the camera, we´ll see.
all i want to tell you now is: whatever is going to happen, probaly nothing is going to happen, i had some good ideas.

fo the meantime:
so long, and thanks for the fish...


all the best for 2009,
we are looking forward to joining you!


sven | pentagrooveDJ GENERAL PIAYDA: download feb23 set on may 8th - in the /CAMP AESTATEflamma | piayda

questions? complaints?
click here


2009-01-31 cultured beauty and hunting feelings | entry by sven

these days are short, full of work, so i remain tired all the time. i´m looking for inspiration, for some quiet entertainment, i prefer to stay away from gigs and clubs, they usually start when i switch off these days. spring is getting into reach, more parties next summer, but anyway: i had the chance to have a look on some diploma works, big exhibition on two locations.

these exhibitions are very exiting, because there is a wide range of ideas and quality.

without coming up to critical, i have to admit that i wasn´t impressed by the major part, but i was blown away by a reries of photographs coming up quite homely and romantic about hunting in the mountains, probably the best and outstanding work: combining visual perfection with a demontage of attitudes concerning hunting...

what i also liked was something which was mainly photographs
but in a more installationesque sense of presenting: some perfectly perverted images of "beautiful" breeding results like naked cats and dogs. facination and sublime horror seem to be natural combination, wow, i remember our discourse on beauty from november 2008. do you?

where do want to go, if you are able to do everything?
ability is not a direction, it would be far to easy, don´t you think?

all the best for 2009,
we are looking forward to joining you!


sven | pentagrooveDJ GENERAL PIAYDA: download feb23 set on may 8th - in the /CAMP AESTATEflamma | piayda

questions? complaints?
click here


2009-01-24 a night at the eichbaumoper | entry by sven

i´m still trying to get cured from my bad cold and the tiredness connected with it, i remember the night i spent at the eichbaumoper. it is a project by the raumlabor berlin and connected theaters and organisations to re-create the image of a tram station which turned out to be a achitectural and locational disaster: the eichbaum station. before you you enter the eichbaumbar, an interesting and teasing housing concept made of containers, have a look at the station design:
a film commite by the raumlabor berlin:



i had the chance to have a closer look of this achitecture and to get into planning common projects with the eichbaumbar staff, we came up with brilliant ideas, not sure how mamy of these are actually happening in the future. but anyway, we developed a common vision, and this is probably the best you can do in the first cold months of a new year.
i do not want to tell too much, just, visit the eichbaumbar, find more information at their official site, and let´s find a way to put our collaborations into action!

www.eichbaumoper.de
we are looking forward to joining you!


sven | pentagrooveDJ GENERAL PIAYDA: download feb23 set on may 8th - in the /CAMP AESTATEflamma | piayda

questions? complaints?
click here


2009-01-13 watch more tv: jayTV! / fever ray | entry by sven

as i feel getting old, starting to spend sunday evenings tired in front of the tv instead of freaking out in the clubs...well, that´s it. when my semi-serious free time managemend, coined by a big lack of motivation, turned out not to move to much, i found a mate for this night. anni (yap, the one who had the cow for breakfast in india) was as lazy as me, so we spend the evening in front of the tv, armed just by a "warm" pizza, delivered by a desoriented pizza boy (no, not fry). watching the etremely increative tv program, feeling our brains turning in a useless mass, we switched between the amound of boredoms and found jay!

who? ok, for the new ones out there: jay and i started the band APOLOGIES in 1999 and quit even two years later (and also record of tides, 2003/2004), but we fortunately returned to studio together in 2006 to add congas to the song "#1" from euphoria. jay is not only one of the long time music mates, he even has the right musical advices, he has a great knowledge and understandig for my work, so his opinion is very imprtant and influencial. after 10 common years we unortunately do not find the time to record more together, or even play motorstorm, so every contact is higly appreciated. and as it is hard to keep in touch, i or better: we were extremely surprised to see jay on tv, he was a guest in tv show!

just as i said, we were extremely surprised and excited. unfortunately the rest of the tv program wasn´t that interesting or exciting (most funny home videos), thank god, there was a documentary on gottfried helnwein late night. not that cool as jay, but anyway.

don´t forget, according to rumours, the consilium re-opens on saturday, not excuses, ge´s place to be, again?

actually, it do not watch that much tv, but i´m always happy to discover quality. well´this one i found today: the knife´s singer karin dreijer andersson comes up solo, called fever ray, as dark and morbid and mysical as always. she has one of these voices that can haunt you up into your dreams, i cannot get the knife´s "heartbeats" out of my head, it generated a kind of depressive atmosphere, which actually feels cofotable in a way, like alice in chains, back in 1995.

all the best for 2009,
we are looking forward to joining you!


sven | pentagrooveDJ GENERAL PIAYDA: download feb23 set on may 8th - in the /CAMP AESTATEflamma | piayda

questions? complaints?
click here


2009-01-05 AESTATEperformance DVD out feb 20 | entry by webmaster

as it has been reported by some of our friends on the net, aestate-online.com confirmes the release of the AESTATEperformance DVD on february 20th, 2008. more info on release events to be announced.

you can watch the teaser over at the official aestate site and/or in the visuals section.

all the best for 2009,
we are looking forward to joining you!


sven | pentagrooveDJ GENERAL PIAYDA: download feb23 set on may 8th - in the /CAMP AESTATEflamma | piayda

questions? complaints?
click here