2005-12-24
merry x-mas, happy new year / wrapping paper | entry by sven |
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merry
christmas and happy new year to all of you. iīm so happy if these days
are over. iīm looking forward for summer. iīm not the only one. anyway,
while i was wrapping all the presents, i had my very own x-mas experience:
the wrapping paper is semi-transparent, so i played around with my camera,
above you can see some results. a self-prtrait with hat on the left and
my christmas tree (outside and unadorned). below you see a tiny image (please download it
and have a look at it in large size). it was sent to my by phoenix and
it is taken from flickr.com (this is where heiner got his space too) there
are 74 bands and other music artists symbolised in this image, have fun
finding them. (itīs funny i tell you!) what about you? |
2005-11-10
bocratm - where is the line | entry by sven |
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i
donīt know, i just had a bad day. i shouldnīt have had. i had a look on
toyotaīs rav4, a beautiful car. i thought about buying it, but itīs too
expensive and quite tiny! anyway, it was a good day, but i feel dissatisfied,
because i am dissatisfied, iīm looking for direction. these days the future
seems so insecure, i know i will feel better the more i try to handle it,
and i do, and still... i donīt play enough guitar. i donīt do sports. i smoke too much. iīm running out of beer. this is hell. the work with sellafield develops only slowly, even the dissident(en) club is as disoriented as i am. ok then, stop the lament. here are the good news: i started to program some drums and loops for my album. after all this electronica with my other projects (i still love these tricky bleeps) i want to do a rock album. more or less the same approach like doing "trinity" and i guess it was the right decision. but lets talk about the next album: as i always did i will not repeat myself, i will try to add something more to my sound. i think the new stuff will sound like something between boards of canada and rage against the machine, phoenix and pantera, underworld and bowie. ok, i see, maybe i wonīt be that good, but different anyway. so have a look at svenpiayda.com now! RELAUNCHED. and still: have a look at herpesgugushi.com what about you? tell us here |
2005-11-01
new works and new site coming up | entry by sven |
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as
i already reported in summer, i started to ply around with large digitally
manipulated images. At first i only did it for fun, but it became more and
more serious. I can do larger prints than i could do before and - i have
total control on my work, finally. My visit on the art cologne opened my
eyes, we need images which surprise us, images which look like reality,
but are completely constructed, large enough to go for a walk, to step into
them - in your mind. Maybe i have to quote wolfgang tillmans here (although herpes is the tillmans fan here, but anyway): "I want to show a world which i want to live in." I hope this quote is right, if it isnīt, these words must have been created by my own genious...J so have a look at svenpiayda.com within the next days. and still: have a look at herpesgugushi.com what about you? tell us here |
2005-10-27
hell synopsis: i canīt go further | entry by sven |
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and
here i am, typing letters on the keyboard, trying to put my feelings into
words. well, i feel good. itīs been such a long time. i was about to break,
but iīm not broken now. unbelievable. how i wanted this moment to come,
and well, here it is, it really feels drunk in a way. the last two years
were hard ones. all people around me might know what i mean, i seemed to
turn into a completely different person. but i didn`t!!! there is so much left to explain, maybe you know what iīm talking about, maybe you donīt, i donīt know what to say now, i guess i simply say thank you. ahh, i just wanted write down a list of names, but i better tell you personally. you hepled me go through this. you know who you are. youīve got a friend for a lifetime. thanks. and still: have a look at herpesgugushi.com what about you? tell us here |
2005-10-04
recording new sounds / herpes gugushi photo diary | entry by sven |
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ok,
itīs me again. iīm really exhausted, really tired these days. the whether?
maybe. other crap? yeah, more likely. i needed to get out yesterday - instead
of becoming completely mad. suddenly i found myself in herpesī kitchen drinking
coffee. after a two and a half hour lament (herp is a good listener, i guess)
we decided withdraw into herpīs little studio. he had some nice ideas for
new songs, some riffs and tricky rhythm figures. to leave the grey world
for some hours we started to record some new sounds. just for fun, we donīt
know what is going to happen next. herp said:"ok, recording" and i drummed
on everything i could find, some rubber sounds, some guitars, ok, done,
letīs get out of here for pizza. maybe i have to mention that i was in a
bad mood (obligatoric these days), but herp was in a good mood. iīm not
the right one for creative masterpieces these days, no iīm not actually.
my plans are sleeping well. as iīm trying to push things forward normally,
i cannot do it now. herp can. as you know, herpesī website is down for updated
for some months now, but he has something to say: mr gugushi started a photo
diary, so he puts recent photos and ideas on his website, have a look. sometimes
you can even see me!!! (have a look above) donīt ask me for fresh directions these weeks, ask herpes. have a look at herpesgugushi.com do it! what about you? tell us here |
2005-08-05
the campfire headphase: new boards of canada album out in october. first
single "oscar see through the red eye" is here | entry by sven |
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as you know, i am not the
only person producing music. thank god, anyway. i am very critic, when
it comes to music, as you know, iīm not bound to a certain style anymore,
iīm bound to...lets say magic. and here they are: the mighty boards of
canada, the holy magicians bringing up chapter 3 of your imaginary childhood
days. i don't think everything was better in the past - ah, cause it wasn't.
but wouldn't it be fun, or better, satisfying to create a collective memory
of a personal childhood, which was great? full of dreams, visions, of
hope and ridiculous fears, things we miss, just because time pushed us
out of it? what about you? |
2005-07-20
sellafield: pushing things forward | entry by sven |
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after a pause of journal
entries i will do it again. there are a lot of impressions and dates these
days, i did not find the time to write something for the journal, and
even if... where should i start? things seem to develop themselves these
days, i simply have to follow, and i learned a lot about different things
like achitecture, biology, water, people and myself. so, what to do with
it? iīm thinking about many projects, but as you know, youīre never in
the right mood to start. but it is different with sellafield. i
have started this project one year ago, played around with sounds, i wanted
to do something more abstract, something that would be easy for me to
do, something to play around with. suddenly there was more and more, no
way to stop it, and even more shocking: there was interest from the outside.
when hh neumann joined "my" project as fixed member, we suddenly had the
opportunity to work with more aesthetic channels. we both are workaholics
at what we do, we created a system producing itself! what i want to say
is: what about you? |
2005-04-17
KopFKinO joins SELLAFIELD | entry by heiner |
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nachdem die kooperationen
mit der band family emergency aufgrund einer bandauflösung und diverser
personeller und musikalischer neuorientierungen derzeit auf eis gelegt
sind, freue ich mich im essener künstlerkollektiv sellafield
eine für alle anderen hier
schon mal ein vorgeschmack auf die im sommer 05 erscheinende dvd. what about you? |
2005-03-22
autechre: new album: first sounds and images here | entry by sven |
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as you know, i am a big autechre
fan all the way. most people donīt know their music, those who do feel
like geeks. as far as i know the best known ae fan is thom yorke from
radiohead and - yes, ae coined radioheadīs music a lot. if i ever manage
to record (ahm and write of course) the next sven album you will hear
and feel their impression on me. you can even take my Sellafield.
project and you know what i mean. the album cover can be seen above, listen to the album with the player below, or listen to a snippet from fermium here what about you? |
2005-01-04
heavy rotation: phoenix and sven name their best records from 2004 | entry
by webmaster |
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women artist phoenix and
sven present their favourite records from 2004, most of them are still
their favourites. phoenix: 1 apocalyptica - reflections sven: 1 autechre - confield please read also our past present future article here what about yours? |
2005-01-02
sellafield production problems | entry by sven |
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first of all, a happy new year to all of you. new game new chance. as
you know, tomorrow the release of sellafieldīs debut "permutations" is planned
and this time the cd and artwork production starts really late. the sound
of this cd is great - the sounds are great - the artwork prints are of high
quality and we cannot wait to give it to you. but i`m really annoyed now.
the trays of the cd packages are all broken. i found myself staring at them
feeling unable to react. so what are we going to do? i wonīt give you any
broken crap because i know that to you it means as much as it means to me.
delay the release? maybe. iīll try to find a solution today. cross your
fingers. thatīs all for the moment. iīm deranged. questions? complaints? click here |