online review
who know what it means - translation does not give that much away ???
http://www.chiffremag.com/index.php?genre=IDM&page=2
"I knew naturally my nose from the previous collective did not raushalten and again as curiously, as this lady became. There I discover nevertheless DJ Group from Hong Kong, which turns around "John of" this laptop, who is among other things with Tepsichoregroup thereby. Around gehts actually not, but around steven Ives, which this very beautiful mix from own works in live-manier in August 2002 in the studio 746B in Hong Kong put down. For a long time I did not feel no more a purity, as this Ambient of masterpieces puts it to day. To produce likewise a depth, which is more organic, than one is able to think. Here situations are expenditure-cost, as one can experience them only with all its senses, are it with fear, isolation, curiosity, dreamingness, melancholy, mourning or simply only, in order to give to its soul new inspirations. Unknown worlds enters, who goes on the way of the uncertainty... Immediately of a wisdom of Dalai Lama, which announces there, reminds me: "spend each day some time alone. Open for the change your arms, but do not lose sight of thereby your values not."
posted by John von 3/24/2006 11:55:00 AM
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catching up with digital cutup lounge -- links
Electro Tec Services is John von's band in Los Angeles with Florida exile Aaron Raab (aka Dream Electric), currently playing a lot and finishing up a new album of glitchy electro techno IDM. You can hear some of the latest music from Electro Tec Services on the website.
More on John von on his professional blog.
Stephen Ives' latest activities and observations from the UK countryside can be tracked on his extremely funny Farmer Glitch blog.
DCL over and out...
posted by John von 1/07/2006 09:13:00 AM
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lamma island blog
Lots of information about DCL's old home in Hong Kong, Lamma Island, on the new Lamma blog...
posted by John von 9/26/2005 06:34:00 AM
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return of an old habit
Listening to Mixing of Particulate Solids Radio3
[Bratislava/Slovakia] again after a long hiatus...feels so good to be back...
posted by John von 7/23/2005 02:24:00 PM
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decentralized action briefs
John von back in Los Angeles and gigging with Aaron Raab as Electro Tec Services, check our site for new music.
Meanwhile Stephen has returned to Singapore to take part in something called Buddhist Bhangra Bling...more at his farmer glitch site...
posted by John von 7/17/2005 01:06:00 PM
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digital cutup lounge at the LA Art Fest
DCL at the LA Art Fest this weekend...John von playing with new LA partner Dream Electric...initially we were both booked to play this separately but I think we'll be joining each other's sets...
posted by John von 5/31/2005 08:41:00 PM
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reviews from malaysia
Some press from our recent SE Asian tour:
New Sunday Times - 22 May 2005
The Malay Mail - 18 May.jpg
posted by John von 5/26/2005 04:29:00 PM
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return from malaysia
Digital Cutup Lounge sighted on stage at club Bliss, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 6 May 2005
John plays bass while Stephen's mind wanders
showdown in Kuala Lumpur
Jun Kung on drums
Jondi Mac joined us from Scotland to play this crazy thing
Now we're back...and planning the next DCL album...
Special thanks to Hennessy VSOP, who sponsored our SE Asian gigs, and Mark Lorrigan of Brightbox Asia, the local PR firm that set up the whole thing...hope to get back again that way soon...!
posted by John von 5/12/2005 08:24:00 PM
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DCL live in SE Asia 2005
DCL will be playing a few Asian dates in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore on May 6th-9th...now how did Stephen arrange to leave me off the poster?
posted by John von 4/29/2005 04:04:00 PM
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the oil drum
Peak oil is much on our minds here at DCL virtual world headquarters.
Check out The Oil Drum blog for late-breaking updates and links to all kinds of peak oil info...I am adding this one to permanent blogroll on the right.
On the same topic, watch The End of Suburbia (we watched it last night and it's brilliant)...!
posted by John von 4/24/2005 01:45:00 PM
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giving aphex twin his due
I have always been a bit of an RDJ skeptic...I mean sure he's good but is he really THAT good?
However I have been listening to one of his recent Analord B-sides for the last eight hours and I have to admit it's pretty good, so here's the DCL Track of the Week:
Aphex Twin -- Pissed Up In SE1
posted by John von 4/18/2005 08:37:00 PM
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new DCL track
Some glitchy tech funk for a Saturday afternoon in LA...
Digital Cutup Lounge - Bairunon.mp3
posted by John von 4/02/2005 02:13:00 PM
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we have been gone but now we're back
Perhaps we never went away at all?
To:
"John von Seggern"
From:
"stephen ives"
Subject:
let the music play ..§
scroll down to some comment from munich !!
http://www.radiomute.com/showthread.php?t=10185
how did they know of this one ???
s.
posted by John von 2/17/2005 09:11:00 PM
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what happened to digital cutup lounge?
Haven't updated this much for months so perhaps a word of explanation is in order...I (John von) am still in Los Angeles while Stephen has returned to his ancestral village of South Petherton UK, however we continue to work together online and frequently exchange tracks for use in our live shows in California and England. We are also both involved in a number of additional new projects, which is a major reason why we haven't updated the DCL site for awhile -- we've been too busy!
This past weekend was quite busy for me here in SoCal, I played dub bass in a classical Chinese music-meets-laptop techno concert at the San Gabriel Civic Auditorium together with three other musicians from M-Audio, Steve Nalepa, Matt Piper, and Duane Morris, then the next morning Matt, NALEPA and I got ourselves up extremely early and drove out to the Mojave to DJ the afternoon techno dub shift at a desert party at the Trona Pinnacles.
posted by John von 9/06/2004 09:50:00 AM
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J. LeRoy Mix Noted by Creative Commons
J. LeRoy, who rubs up against Digital Cutup Lounge from time to time, had this mention on the Creative Commons blog regarding his Supreme Court Remix.
posted by Jim 7/11/2004 07:26:54 PM
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Re-Spray .....
News from DCL-UK ....:
ReSpray, an Arts Council supported ‘digital cut-up’ project will be playing the Exeter Phoenix as part of the Exeter Fringe on Thu 15 July (8-11 pm /£2.50).
ReSpray is a digital poetry-based project which applies music ‘cut-up’, ‘mash-up’, sampling and mixing techniques to poetry as well as incorporating sound, music and other ambient fx. The collaborators are wide-spectrum poet and writer, Ralph Hoyte, and digital cut-up artist Stephen Ives. The work has been created from an ongoing residency at the PVA MediaLab in Bridport. Supported by Arts Council England.
Also featuring ::
Maitreya - the acclaimed ambient persona of music producer Simon Lomax, with projected film specially designed by digital artist Kama Glover. Expect beautiful sound and stunning visuals.(www.councilofnine.co.uk),
DCL Sound System - slabs of serious electronic grooves, cutup shenanigans and visual projections from the Digital Cutup Lounge sound-system.
posted by farmer glitch 7/02/2004 06:38:54 AM
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and another one -- bill drummond of the KLF
"I know I have a problem. You know where you wake in the middle of the night with some idea, but you think better of it in the morning? That bit - the rationale bit - doesn't happen to me. Sometimes I think, 'Let's just act on it,' and maybe some reason will come along afterwards."
From the Guardian, thanks to Stephen for catching this one...
posted by John von 5/26/2004 10:39:35 PM
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john zorn on life
Picked up on this John Zorn quote from Melissa Morales at UCLA...
We live with doubt every single microsecond of every day. I'm constantly in doubt about what I'm doing, I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you're doing, working and working until you feel it's finished.
posted by John von 5/26/2004 10:27:19 PM
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listening to jazz again
Been away to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado for a little awhile, now back in SoCal revisiting the wonders of the Miles Davis catalogue...now playing: Paraphenalia, from the mid-60s classic Miles In The Sky. Amazing how modern and vital this stuff sounds still, Miles is the most inspiring musical artist of the 20th century as far as I'm concerned...
Coming up soon: John von joins forces with DJ Sariah Storm, Sherlock and Ooah for a new West Hollywood micro glitch video dub lounge...at Monroe's on Melrose in West Hollywood, just down the street from the Pacific Design Center. Watch this space for details.
posted by John von 5/26/2004 08:21:07 PM
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the mashin' of the christ
From the press release...
"The Mashin' of the Christ" was/is Negativland's top-secret-not-for-viewing video response to the number one film in America. Negativland decrypted, downloaded and mashed up the most violent religious film ever made along with over 27 other Hollywood portrayals of Jesus to create their own vision of the last moments of Christ's life...all in four minutes and 14 seconds.
posted by John von 5/16/2004 09:22:38 AM
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american swami
Sitting at home on a Sunday morning sorting out some tracks to play at a club in West Hollywood tomorrow night...right now I'm really digging these Jan Jelinek tracks with Australian jazz trio Triosk...
And now some thoughts from American Swami:
Behind every corner there could be death. Live your life freely without self-imposed limitations.
posted by John von 5/16/2004 09:06:48 AM
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15 Anomalies Surrounding The Death Of Nick Berg
Was it a CIA PR operation?
posted by John von 5/14/2004 02:57:37 PM
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and now for something completely different
I do get the weirdest emails:
The first Electronic Music Parade based on a Mayan concept called
"Elektronic Mayan – City – Mega - Event” is finally now on track in
post-communistic Russia!
np: Suspect Seen - NORSEEN [jazz mix]
posted by John von 5/11/2004 08:15:48 PM
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re-electing Bush = approval of torture
I don't often repost passages from other blogs, but this is important I think...from The Daily Brew via Atrios. Something to think about:
We Are All Wearing The Blue Dress Now
Whether Republicans like it or not, if George Bush is elected in the fall, the entire world will view the election as American approval of the torture and sexual humiliation of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison. It might not be fair, it might not be reasonable, but it is nevertheless reality. Apologies, prosecutions, firings and courts martial will not be enough to expunge the stain this scandal has placed on the honor of the United States. The pictures are simply too graphic. The abuses are simply too horrible. If George Bush is elected President, the entire world will view the election, at a minimum, as tacit approval of these events.
This election will thus no longer merely determine the Presidency. This election is now much larger than the office. The United States' place in the family of nations is now on the ballot. This election will determine whether the United States will ever again have any standing or moral authority in the rest of the world. The United States cannot simultaneously stand against depraved sexual torture and the wanton abuse of human rights, while electing the commander in chief upon whose watch these events occurred. The seven hundred thousand or so viewers of Fox News may be able to rationalize such cognitive dissonance; the six billion people who make up the remainder of the world will not.
posted by John von 5/08/2004 11:40:24 AM
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Re-Bop Sessions - Exeter UK.
Just played a cool gig over at the Exeter Pheonix - we spun in the bar - whilst the Soul Jazz Sound System shook the foundations in the main hall.
First time out with my new live-setup - consisting of a 2-kaoss pad/1-lap-top/1-i-pod setup ... I was joined on tabla and assorted percusion by Ansuman Biswas ... a dubbed/funked out affair ...... hopefully some further collaborations between myself and Ansuman will follow later this summer ....
stephen - south petherton - uk ........
posted by farmer glitch 5/07/2004 02:15:10 AM
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