Live at Royal/T documents an ambient performance by the Vibration Institute Orchestra at Royal/T in Culver City in August 2010.

'Combining physical instruments and digital sonic manipulators, they conspired to create ever-morphing textural washes...' - LA Times, 26 Aug 2010

 

Vibration Institute Orchestra - Live At Royal T by johnvon
John von Seggern - fretless bass
Steve Tavaglione - EWI/electronics
Laura Escude - violin/electronics
Matt Piper - guitar

Simplexity is an electronic jazz project formed by computer musician/bassist/producer John von Seggern together with some of the most innovative and respected jazz players on the West Coast – Los Angeles sound designer and top studio musician Steve Tavaglione, keyboardist John Beasley, drummer Gary Novak, trumpeter Walt Fowler, and EVI player Judd Miller.

The album also contains some of the last recordings of bassist Dave Carpenter, to whom Extreme Measures is dedicated. This album was recorded over a couple days of jam sessions and overdubs at Gary Novak's Kronos Recording studio in Burbank. Sax, drums, keyboards, and bass were mixed and combined with computer beats and grooves in live session, then later edited and remixed into compositions by John von.

Simplexity - Extreme Measures [2010] by johnvon

Steve Tavaglione: tenor and soprano sax, EWI, electronics and effects
John von Seggern: computer beats and loops, electronic textures and effects
Walt Fowler: trumpet and whistling
John Beasley: keyboards
Dave Carpenter: bass
Gary Novak: drums
Judd Miller: additional EVI trumpet and electronics

Produced and composed by Simplexity
Executive producer/remixer: John von Seggern
Recorded at Kronos Recording, Burbank, CA

Engineered and mixed by Gary Novak and Eric Isaacson
Mastered by Kevin Lamb
Vibration Institute Music ©2010
All rights reserved

Vibration Institute Orchestra - Dream Calibration [vibinst004] by johnvon

Mixes and edits from a live ambient improvisation session recorded at Leland Way Studios on 7 Dec 2007.

Hypersonic vibrations for supporting extradimensional travel and out-of-body experiences.

John von (Vibration Institute) - electronics, bass
Laura Escude (Ableton) - violin, processing
Matt Piper (M-Audio) - keyboards, electronics
Gabriel Ferrer (Native Instruments) - EWI, electronics, beats
Vangelis Vargas (Droid Behavior) - beats and sounds
Freaky Chakra - vocal samples on 'Space Folk'
Greg Williams (M-Audio) - additional bass on 'Space Folk'

produced by John von

Johnvon Watanabe - Grid Topology by johnvon

Grid Topology is a collection of postdigital atmospheres and sound design experiments recorded in June 2007 at the Vibration Institute performance space in Second Life.

All sound design by Johnvon Watanabe (John von Seggern's Second Life avatar, pictured on the album cover).

Original piano recording sampled on 'Hyperpiano' by David Goldblatt.

Sixteen tracks recorded between 7th-15th August 2002, at Studio 746B - Hong Kong.

Engineered/mixed/produced: Stephen Ives
Additional effected flute/sax: Andrew Pask
Additional audio samples: J LeRoy
Sleeve: Zoe Li

File under Experimental/Ambient.

Originally released online in 2002, rereleased 2007 by Vibration Institute.