Thursday, December 31, 2015

Bookmark my anchor web page

Scroll around at this site - don't forget to scroll over everything. My new minimalistic studio home base I'll be developing from. Visit from your mobile devices, too.

exoverse-studio

Thursday, December 24, 2015

New full length Drum & Bass album out

Hello! It's been a while since I used my blogspot yet plan to keep in touch even after the move to my own site. Enjoy the latest album and catch up on the face melting hard techno live shows over the Fall 'n Halloween, in case you haven't been.
Have awesome holidays.

K

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

New Ambient / Drone space meets earth music

Glad to offer up a couple of new releases for the blood moon eclipse night and Autumn Equinox theme, as well as the new 'Wounded Healers' based in where earth and the moon meet the celestial sphere and blend into cosmic ancestral roots forever.

Enjoy, and take care.


Tuesday, September 8, 2015

By the way, this site is temporary!

Hey! I'm moving to my OWN CSS/HTML site and looking at WordPress templates now.

Just a quick note. This was a temporary station crossover and super basic, generic minimal function to keep the ball rolling in interim stages. Thanks for understanding as I get set up with a more quality blog and site reflective of my work around the interwebs. Producing some of today's best sci-fi, fantasy, visionary art and sound. Offering the best in multimedia design and complex conceptual execution.

Still feel free to use this contact form at this site.

My CV [resume and cover letter]:

I'm a powerful media, arts & entertainment design project manager and I would be willing to freelance for your next project. Here is my resume, cover letter, and web site.

J. Kotter

Full Editor and Multimedia Producer

Uniquely innovating, industry prioritized, and self initiating Audio/Visual professional.

• Graphic Designer skilled in advanced, decade plus experienced Photoshop methods;
uniquely custom original designs or edited, promotional and ad campaigns.
• Expert audio engineering, mastering, packaging and full display publishing.
• Fresh music, melody and atmospheric soundtrack creation of unmatched quality.
• Professional, courteous, unparalleled time management and deadline acing.
• Classic/modern, multifaceted portfolio construction; highest quality of Nikon photography.
• Gallery space coordination and streamlined function set design aesthetics.
• Specialist in textile creations for fabrics and other industrial & fine art surfaces.
• Manuscript editing and storyboard conceptualization, proof-reading, and publicist formatting.
• Brand development, image consulting and logo design.
• Creative project spearheading and broad spectrum presentation focus.

Body of work/achievements:
-Founder of successful counterculture fine arts multimedia venture 'ARS Independent Media'.
-Discography: Over 60 full length albums in Electronic Music mediums ranging from dance to symphonic film score that are fully solo artist published and packaged attractively with success.
-Two polished dance music all-original real time recorded podcasts run once a week as solo projects.
-Massive gallery of digitally created cross genre & multimedia Photoshop specialist design.
-Graphic illustration and compositing specialization, and a burgeoning animations department.

Cover letter:
My internet presence is fairly underground and intentional 'edgy' or visceral & volatile youthful demographics, and experienced fully in shifting gears custom spectrum creative space to corporate cleanliness and adapt project to project with expertise. 
My personal arts & entertainment resources are visible at www.arsindependentmedia.blogspot.com as well as bandcamp and youtube under various project names. My efforts are ever extending to expand more toward customer service for supreme, sharp, commercial clientele. As well as self starting projects from inspiration to conceptualization to full manifestation, I am a follow-through detailed disciplinarian of the most precision efficient kind.
Finally, to assist those scouting prospective employees, I am the right choice for those who recognize innovative values and exclusive studio environment full time dedication over institutionally awarded statuses and other certificates of achievement. Reaching far beyond mundane technical repetition learning atmosphere to the visionary and phantasmagorical capabilities of vision realization. 
Due to congenital cerebral anomalies, institutional learning presented challenges that resulted in home schooling. Rather than give up and collect government sponsored disability, my right brain learning curve adapted to develop truly one of a kind, almost supernatural depth perception and natural 'magic eye' optical capabilities. Gifted arts that are incomparable with anything else on the market today.
I am seeking the right individual project or company who in turn seeks to step outside cookie cutter conventions for bold, vivid new visions and possibilities. A venture led by innovators in turn who know how to take a very smart risk to invest what others will pass up to assume a more ordinary, over certified 'security blanket' attachment. I offer solid growth as well as agile flexibility for longer ranging projects that will take a longer time. I am also CSS and HTML capable for completely original full site construction with attractive functional crossover from device to device.
My portfolio consists of Photoshop Elements, a plug-in that I modified to suit my styles in such a way that my work effortlessly surpasses full Creative Suite long time users, and anything that would require Illustrator, In Design or Lightroom, I more than fulfill in my streamlined and beloved 'Millennium Falcon' of art studio set up. After Effects efficient, most recently, and love impressionist/abstract video arts; also able to go corporate & commerce with clean projects. Even my hobbies are my work. I am at the forefront of more 'edgy' design and street/punk youth demographic styles.
If 'good enough' and quota-to-quota mind frame quasi-vitality is your disenchanted passion, by all means, keep looking. I would not be a good fit for you.
If a lively, concentrated atmosphere of making waves and placing a confident wager in state-of-the-art dynamic ingenuity is more your speed, we should set up our first meeting together immediately and start making epic dream worlds into previously unfathomed - or unreachable until now - interactively finished textures.

My best!

Monday, September 7, 2015

Labor Day R&R

Enjoying the day off. Plus time. I'm waiting on a new HDD for my laptop. It gives me some time to simply be for a while and not feel anything too deeply. Still, I'm really trying to not just fill it all with logging television hours. Listening now to an older album, thinking of remastering some older work of mine as soon as possible. It sounds great and is fun to reminisce, but I really want to apply some of my latest innovative DAW methods and developments. Give a bit of extra shine & smooth.

I have finally taken all my graphics knowledge into serious web design; including flash..the total works!

A decade plus now of my arts, but having so far been so very underground. Independent media is my primary thrust and foundation of all that I do and am to my core. What that means is this: who I am creatively is my production. Me, Myself, this guy right here = All I Produce...for better or worse. I have witnessed endless artists come and go with fan base and loyalty that can be bought, sold, 'whored out and slaved up'. A Producer is different from a merchandising machine because the 'branding' they do is largely behind curtains, over opposed to pure celebrity.

We both and all in media have got to have some sort of 'facing' for products. As a producer, I spend all my time in the art studio. I can 'face' for other people; brand and identity, packaging & presentation. It is all in grasp. I blueprint dreams, engineer worlds, and manifest concepts.

Selling the production is a different area, and establishing those parameters is why I can do so much; I get to focus from base strategy like a goalie in hockey or soccer. So, my time is way less divided into sub-compartments of focusing in on one product and marketing my face with the product as an attachment to the identity; that requires a charismatic scale which as a producer, I do not have or sit around desiring in order to get a ball rolling or wheels turning.

As a result, in the arts & entertainment industry, I do not represent everyone's favorite aspect - just like in hockey or soccer - the guy who scores all the time. I am the base strength foundation and my old managers used to have a saying around me, "Strong Like Bull". I was really proud of it.

I don't put tons of stock in competitions or awards, but one from Goodwill that stands firm as a moment I have valued in a frame in my room, 'Most Trustworthy Award'.

I self initiate, stick to what I begin overseeing all my inceptions, and follow through and tie all loose ends and cross T's and dot the I's. A great product is revised and refined and sculpted and revisited to both streamline and detail while improving on overall epic value in a functional way that never loses the original soul inspiration, yet is flexible and realistically agile all the way.

Happy Labor Day!

Friday, September 4, 2015

DC Schranz - Episode 28 is live! [Industrial Hardcore Techno]

I love this episode; turned out really beautiful & dark! I'm listening again right now.

DC Schranz & FTB Rave Minimal are both always made live but with tempo and distortion differentials between them. These are designed with the discerning technician in mind! 


If you do love techno / schranz and especially if it is hard, then pressing play is its own reward. 
Great activity time music when you need a boost of energy or are intentionally seeking that 'Vader style power' dark side of electronic dance music. 


Tuesday, September 1, 2015

FTB Rave Minimal [Hard Techno Podcast]

Hey to my ARS Independent peoples! 
I have a great podcast show here for you. Hard Techno wizardry to download [name your own price]. I loved so much to make as always. If you love electronic dance music you will also like my techno

What goes into these shows? 
- I start up my DAW app with all the instruments and effects plugins.

- I start calibrating and choosing the drums, where they lay, and they play in essentially a continuous loop.

- Then, I record 40 minutes or so - like in this case - and master [and play live: knobs, switches etc] as I go along.

- I line up all 5 minute segments. each is 5 minutes exactly plus a couple seconds. 

- I then master synth woven into [after calibrating each instrument and addings effects generators].

- Finally, as it renders, I think up the art then make that.

- Upload and enjoy.

So...ENJOY!

 

Monday, August 31, 2015

New Ambient Music - full album

This album was worked on gradually since Summer Solstice up to September 1st and I'm really glad the work is here. Full Moon ambient along with earlier posted Full Crow

Very inspired by dreams especially day dreams. Going beyond and deeper and how there really is no end or final word to things, just moments of clear resolution before experiencing all life has to offer. Including all the spellbinding fantasy and infinite potentiality being on and the same.

A blank canvas is still a canvas even when it has so many layers on textures, it is the same before, and in the timeless, the blank canvas is ever one with the finished masterpiece we do not yet perceive.

It takes us going in, breaking our stock of supply to express and create ourselves. We return by doing such to the endless, unbordered, both something very finally choosing to define and undefinable. Uncaptured.

The very essence of this work I share here...

 

Saturday, August 29, 2015

DC Schranz Archives 3.2 - Two Hours of blazing hot Vintage Hardcore Industrial Techno

I am so very happy to present this archival upload of the last three shows of the mega-fiery Hard Techno / Schranz podcast that I real time record every single week along with FTB Rave Minimal. So much goes into these, it's crazy and pretty much masochistic. haha

It also includes a Full Moon special show at the end. There are three wild art images - one to each show - and if you love both EDM sights as well as sounds, then it is all for you. It all revolves around nightlife and having a great time. 

I like to state that it is countercultural, so we definitely do explore some of the darker regions of mind, but it is to own it in strength rather than be owned by it and swallowed up.

All media and ARS Independent Media arts exist to offer a safe venue to do that in. Push the limits of what can be done and exercise your freedom of expression and speech.

Both light and shadow are crucial to the arts & entertainment industry and I'm no exception. I go full throttle with both to weave fantastic new worlds for my listeners and various fields of supporters and colleagues. 

Have fun: it exists to be danced to!!!
It is the perfect art to exorcize your work week 'goonies' by.  

Use the contact form here right up top to feedback and get some ideas of your own going. Give a shout; tell me how you are feeling and what you love. I always appreciate that sort of thing!

 

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

FTB Rave Minimal - Episode VII [Original 'Vintage' Organic Hard Techno]



FTB VII
I have restructured the show a bit to make it even more dancefloor intensive, filled with life and glorious subwoofer thumpage! Hard Techno goodness as ever. These shows are live recorded back to back drum segments woven with synth mastered alongside. I assure you that if you are into EDM / Electronic Dance Music, the floors will stay blazing with this beast right here. I love doing these shows and getting people to move & sweat.  

The Star Wars: Episode VII inspired audio cover art is my vision, too. I enjoyed making; all fractals plus a [Sith] subject. 

It has a vintage / oldschool rave variety of sound. As always, optimal for gym crowd and other workout people. If it wren't for dancing, I would be so out of shape. 

 

Monday, August 24, 2015

AmoebiKathedral ambient synthesizer performance - live music



Okay, last night was amazing. I had not offered anything AmoebiKathedral in what felt like too long. This is my ambient epic vast symphonic or 'music for film', more meditative arts here at ARS Independent Media. It is really fantastic music for relaxing with and maybe finding headphones and I myself even get something good smelling to accompany the atmospheric soundscapes. Tree scents especially.. My neice, who is hilarious, calls them 'Mandles' instead of candles. Anything like 'Fireplace' or 'Log Cabin' or 'Camping Trip', all of these are 'Mandles' to her. She started doing that after breaking it off with a guy. "All I need is a Mandle and I'm good to go". Very funny stuff! 

Here is a larger look at the visionary art album cover for this live performance / composition

Oh, and by the way: Name Your Own Price download. I appreciate anything you do decide to give, and it really goes back into the music as an encouragement.

As a facet of my entire scope of media, ambient is a cornerstone and so huge to all I'm about and love, and returning back to music after a long hiatus, it was this artform I started back up in again first of all. So, in the name ARS Independent Media, my wish is that this music is so strongly associated when that name is brought up. 

Enjoy these hallowed sounds of life and nature. I have seen it said and agree that ambient is a music of questing. So true! 
Meet me on the 'other side', then! 


  

Friday, August 21, 2015

Remembering Full Crow - a full moon ambient music project

I was just sitting here running off fractals for some great new visionary art when I thought of Full Crow, a March full moon ambient music project that I loved zoning out into and getting into the spirit of things. AmoebiKathedral is a very special project to me. visionary audio arts and cover art. A really sacred space is set up here. 

It offers a really good look at another side of ARS Independent Media that I cherish and mean to get back into with renewed inspiration. Tonight's moon is really brilliant looking and gorgeous, and as you can see at the bottom of this page, I like to mark special times by moons and eclipses and I love getting ideas not off other media all the time so much as Nature and all the organic inspirations for artistic explorations around me. 

What is more inspiring than walking out your door to crickets chirping, a full moon, and a lake in your backyard? I will offer up a photo gallery here eventually. 

One of the deepest, darker or most serious ambient projects was Eklipsoliel: Blood Moon Grimoire and that work is also at the AmoebiKathedral page. 

Give that a listen; be forewarned - 10 hours long epic masterpiece created over a week. Live synthesizer performances. 

New Music! Schranz a.k.a. German Hard Industrial Techno live podcast - Episode 26


Joy! Take a listen; only if you love hard techno / industrial, though. As an artist, these shows are so much fun for me to make from scratch. I like to state they are all high velocity and dance intensive electronic music media sound arts. My medium is digital audio workstation which is a fully epic, fully digital music studio like the kind that before computers became crucial to living more than ever before, used to need an entire giant building to fit huge number mixers and sound proof booths into. 
Will upload the beautiful nightlife original artwork that goes along with this media
Note; occasionally I use a sample that has some expletives. It's just my style on ocassion. If you are fine with that and love genuine underground music, it's just part of that experience and you will be into it.  


What you are looking at as I was describing earlier 'extra organic bongo drums', and you see me with my hat on looking down at the decks/consoles mixing and making the audio mojo magics! Great stuff.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

FTB Rave Minimal - Volume 6 by Von Kotterhausen [Raw Power Hard Techno dance music]

Hallo! Got some great stuff for the hard techno crowd. High octane stuff that is really great gear for the workout & gym rat, high activity crowd. I swear, this stuff is as good as 5 hour energy or a couple cups of black coffee for the soul in need of that boost. These are all original live podcast productions of my own discipline and love of the art form. It is also really good for dancefloors, so if you have thought of having a 'floor technician' out with some fire, this stuff is the real deal.
I loved the last pure 5 minutes after the Jack Nicholson sampler put in. Can you guess which movie? I bet you can. You are so smart that way! EDM or electronic dance music is something I live, eat, breathe, sleep.
As a producer and electronic musician missing my left limb with a prosthetic steel claw carbon fiber hand, I never thought I could do anything but aquire tastes for any other than my own vision and strong desire to get into the edm lifestyle on this level. You often hear 'Techno & EDM', which is understandable. I do create DnB, a lot. You have heard the Qabalah For Vampires from the last post? If you are into house, deep tech, ebm, it is all about you and exists for you. Also, announcement: I like to leave an open forum for models or model-y types that just have true heart for the music to be in cover arts. What you get is a name mention credit and a large size file for your own personal or other identity purposes. Win-win!
Use the contact link to your right side if the idea sounds like something you would be interested in. It is fun, too! Original music. New music. Yes!!!
I am ever and always interested in other venues of media as well. As a multimedia specialist, and independent art studio founder and galactic overlord [there, I said it], I'm about always open to any real serious collaboration and overseeing major projects. Again, the contact section to the right is for you, very much. Discuss with subject ART what your media visions are and we will start going full on amazing on epic scales asap. You just need a drive. I do so much, but if you are hesitant to follow through with devotion that is plainly visible, being nurned so many times before has made it so I can't even initiate anything without full guarantee on seeing things through, tying up ends, and having a spectacular product at the end. Then, at that 'finish line'; it really is but just the beginning for us.












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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Latest Original Music: album Qabalah For Vampires by producer Von Kotterhausen / JMK 9000

An amazing, fun, darker visionary foray into the fantasy and spellbinding nightlife of the industrial ebm club of the vampire aesthetic. All original music by myself, ARS Independent Media founder and 'warrior chief of arts & entertainment' Von Kotterhausen / J M K 9000. It was about a weeklong intensive project going fully in with clear, conceptual focus. 
I'm not into usually picking a fav - especially of my own work. The mood and moment so often is my 'favorite', so latest thing I'm doing. Coffin Castle was special to me; it has an intentional chaos underlying the melody, some delightful hints of madness or haphazard allowing of a dark freedom or the joy in the nightlife is this, and in so much music, you don't get to really hear which notes the bass is playing. If you did, you would get so much more of this effect. A free spirited live jam session of hints of off center allowing. Yet melodic and flowing, yet product of a 'touched mind' in the creative, productive, visionary way.  Enjoy my album; a dark and beautiful gift to all the world!

Qabalah For Vampires by JMK 9000

Monday, August 17, 2015

Give this latest podcast a try. I need to use my blog more.
You'll love it if you are into dancing hard - which I love doing to stay active - intense fire in high tempo hard techno and industrial. Episode 25! Cool. This is not even the only show I do. Speaking of which, today is FTB Rave minimal. FTB is a name inspired by all the cookie cutter b.s. killing me in the party industry. Well, trying to. They will never take my love or fight. FTB means 'Eff the b.s.', to put it mildly.


Saturday, February 14, 2015

Uberpwnage - J M K 9000



I have not used this site so much yet. I'm working round the clock, and web presence is not as big a priority in my head as it ought to be. I'll be moving things around.<br />

In the meantime, I'm posting my latest dark, gritty, surreal Drum 'n Bass. It's a youtube download.<br />