Matthias: My concept is based on projections. I have the goal to create enlighted rooms which are more than the sum of their components. An aura shall arise. In the center of my work there is a self-made projector. With this projector I can create special images, which I call „lightmotiv". Basically lightmotiv is the enlarged Projection of colourful liquids, mixed in a petri-dish. I find the ingredients in my surrounding, most products are for the household reqirements like colour-pigments, edible oil, detergents, etc. I always find more and more... You can never foresee to 100% percent how the images will look like. Because in the end the laws of nature will decide in which way the structures will be formed. That's so special about these images. That means, the order of the structures will never repeat itself and therefore every moment, every image is unique.

Franzi: So everybody who look at this spectacle will see how the substances react with each other?

Matthias: Yes and no. You will see the different chemical, physical and biological reactions. This different colours and energetic forms will be shown as a 20 meter high projection. But you can „see" or discover even more than what I've just described. The consciousness is used to decode information. The consciousness tries to remember forms, which it has recognized once. Because the structure of the liquid solutions never repeats, the consciousness is constrained to compose new associations. There is no message which can get decoded. Whatever you discover in the projections are your own thoughts.

Franzi: How did you get this idea?

Matthias: The idea with the projector developed little by little. I was always fascinated from light, colours and nature and liked to do handcrafted stuff. Nearly 4 years ago everything joined together: I took a bowl with a salad-dressing inside, put it on the Top of an upside-down flower pot. Inside the flower pot I put a light bulb which projected the dressing onto the ceiling of my living room. What I've seen there fascinated me until now and never let me off. That was definitly more than a salad-dressing...

Franzi: Do you try to express or to bring about something with it?

Matthias: I would describe the message with something like „fascinating reality". I'm often fascinated for hours just by watching the processes and structures which are created by the laws of nature. With our eyes we can pick up more information than with our other senses. The importantness of visual impressions can't get overrated.

And the pictures, which I´m facing every day in our wonderfuly coloured customer's world don´t impress me any more. They behave like they were made for machines. I need a balance. I want to look inside, want to create a room for my phantasy by the images, always new and recreating. For me, lightmotiv is a bubbling source of inspiration and positive thoughts.

Matthias: I see a lot of afinity. Music streams into one direction - the liquids also. The liquids get mixed together - the music also. At both the "colour" is changing, the speed, the complexity, and because of their continuos changing both influence the atmosphere of the room. For me, at a party, music and visuals are connected together inseparably, like hearing and vision is connected togehter for our sense. After all they are the same principles, only for other senses. Interisting for me is the question of the interfaces, cause only if these are existing and the exchange between optics and acoustics is happening, the party will be an asthetic experience. The projector has a few possibilitys, because you always can influence the events directly, but I see a big potential for development. I'm dreaming of a „sound/ light - universe", in which the hearing and the vision permanently revolve each other, interactively and therefore the senses are carried away. Or expressed in "german  party slang",  I'm dreaming of an everlasting, persistent „Mega-Flash".

Franzi: In fact, it's possible to live on what you're doing?

Matthias: Complicated question. But at the moment it's not enough to have a constant assured income. I want to change it immediately, because I have to keep an eye on myself, too. And with money there are more possibilitys to realize the ideas I have and I would like to do it. But if the question is based on the content of my work, I'm very happy with it, because it's a good feeling to have a work which make sense for me.

Franzi: In fact, I'm driving at the little `R`behind lightmotiv... You have build up a little company. Tell us about the company and how does it work?

Franzi: Outside of our scene, how do people react to this kind of images?

Matthias: Most people like this images. But if they look at pictures, most people are following a certain pattern, "are the images  nice or not" ok they are nice and then the people are moving on. That's not an informative reaction. I think these reactions have to do with the abstract and organic forms of the nature, which are familiar to our asthetic sense. Some people from the area of the chaos-analysists and the recreation-psychologists are interested in it. And the demand for sitting collectively in front of these projections for hours is rather seldom outside the scene.

Franzi: On which sort of events do you work?

Matthias: The events can be so different. There are events like corporate events, fairs and expositions, VJ-meetings and birthday-partys of friends and of course trance-partys. But you don't have the same amount of fun at each event, that´s for sure... Really smashing would be a session with a music artist in a cinema, where the images and music are there for an hour or so.

Franzi: At your company, is there a cooperation with other visual-artists, in the sense of a network character?

Matthias: Yes, of course. We see us as a meeting-point in a network of visual-artists. Together we are strong. And you can distribute products like posters or DVD's much better with a central platform than as a single person. The name of our company is theNightLab, the short version is tnl, and this name is our programm. A nocturnal lab, in which we are experimenting to create visual content, which we call „psychonaut food". The network consists of lighting-designers, VJ's, photographers, video-artists, graphic designers and of course of people, who have knowledge in the area of projection-techology and production processes for content. Basically we are working together with people who are also specialized in the area of projection and who we can help with our technical ressources. For example Tina Zimmermann. She is doing her work independently of our work, but if she needs technology, she calls us and we organize her a beamer or whatever she needs. The same way we help each other with the sales or with doing jobs at events. Visual artists who feel adressed by this are invited to contact us...

Franzi: Are there combined works?

Matthias: Mainly with Tina we did some projects. If everything goes right, we will be working together at „Waldfrieden Wonderland" and at some other outdoor events. Besides we are working at a collective DVD production and posters. Beyond this we are working as event- organizer and working together with the people of Waldfrieden more often.