Cinema Volta: Sporadic Outbursts Cinema Volta http://www.cinemavolta.com/sporadic/ A random collection of recordings, published as the mood strikes. en-us Copyright 2008 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:26:46 +0100 Cinema Volta A random collection of recordings, published as the mood strikes. This project is in many ways, the polar opposite of Cinema Volta: Daily Ambience. Where Daily Ambience had an overall structure, a specific timeframe, a regular publishing schedule and a well-defined goal, this project is ruled strictly by whim and inspiration and is completely open-ended. I will post songs here when the mood strikes me. Look for Cinema Volta albums in the iTunes Music Store John Maxwell Hobbs. 2005 John Maxwell Hobbs jmax@cinemavolta.com Cinema Volta: Sporadic Outbursts Cinema Volta: Sporadic Outbursts http://www.cinemavolta.com/sporadic/ http://www.cinemavolta.com/daily/daily.jpg Cinema Volta: Sporadic Outbursts http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.31 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 720 Infinitity Another new track and this time you didn't have to wait six months for it.

This track was made very simply with just my Les Paul, my eBow and a really long, dense reverb courtesy of RaySpace. There were no looping or harmonic effects used at all, which is unusual for me.

Infinite guitar 1

It's interesting how an instrument can guide you in certain directions. My Strat leads me to play mostly in A and G, while my Les Paul demands to be played in E.

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I recorded this in my flat in Glasgow with my brand spanking new ebony Les Paul custom on an Intel iMac using Cubase 4.

New Guitar 2, 24th February, 2007.

I did use some old stuff to make this as well, primarily my very, very old eBow. I also had to use Cubase SX 3 to do the final master because Cubase 4 doesn't support dithering yet.

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Here's a slow guitar mediation. It's just something dashed off pretty quickly, has a lot of distortion, but I like it anyway.

Guitar Mediation One, June 16, 2006.

]]> Cinema Volta http://www.cinemavolta.com/sporadic/2006/06/_i_told_you_this.html http://www.cinemavolta.com/sporadic/2006/06/_i_told_you_this.html Podcasts Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:01:14 +0100 Sten Hanson's birthday Sten Hanson recently had a birthday celebration at Fylkingen here in Stockholm. Sten's old friend and my fairly new friend Charlie Morrow was not able to make it over from New York for the event, so he asked me to assist him in a collaborative piece. He chose two tracks, one of his and one of Sten's and I assembled them into this track, adding some of my processes as the glue to hold them together.

Sten's Birthday

Now for the fine print. This track is not covered by the Creative Commons license as the rest of the tracks on this site are. In this case, the track is © Othermedia (ASCAP) and © Oden Konsult (STIM)

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Guitar Mediation Three, March 26, 2006.

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Guitar Mediation One, March 30, 2006.

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These guitar meditations make heavy use of filtered delays and slowly decaying loops. I'm working on ways of making the setup I use responsive to playing. I've got a long way to go, so there will be more of these in the future.

Guitar Mediation Two, March 26, 2006.

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