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!