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Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Flogging a dead horse
Continuing with the feedback machine process. This time there's a slight difference. I used yesterday's track as the source for the feedback, but this time set up the feedback machine as a send instead of as an insert, so you can still hear the original track beneath the new sounds. 2005-05-11

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 11, 20050 min read
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Second verse, same as the first
Same process as yesterday, using yesterday's track as the trigger, with another moving filter and a reverb added. 2005-05-10 For those of you who live in Sweden, Denmark, Norway or Switzerland, Apple's iTunes Music store is now available to you. This means that you can buy Cinema Volta albums online. If you live in Switzerland, it also means you can get one free song.

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 10, 20050 min read
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Round and round
Continuing in the same vein. I took yesterdays track and used it as the source material for the feedback machine I created. I tweaked the parameters a bit and came up with this. My wife thinks it sounds like a Doctor Who soundtrack. 2005-05-09

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 9, 20050 min read
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Sci-Fi music
More experiments in automated music. I set up the initial conditions with just a sine wave triggering everything. This one was done with a whole stack of Pluggo plugins feeding each other. I just have to step out of the way and let them do their thing. 2005-05-08

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 8, 20050 min read
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More random behavior
Made with processes similar to yesterday's but much less noisy. 2005-05-07

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 7, 20050 min read
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Atomaton
I let the computer play with yesterday's track. It's really quite noisy. 2005-05-06

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 7, 20050 min read
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Long glass tunnel
Very sleepy and dreamy. In many cases, I hope that you are able to forget that you are listening to these tracks while you are listening to them. 2005-05-05

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 5, 20050 min read
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Control
Almost the same thing, without the randomness. 2005-05-04

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 5, 20050 min read
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Infuriating . . .
This is completely slapdash and random with very little involvement on my part, and of course, much more interesting and listenable than things that I slave over for hours. The source material is some of the MIDI tracks from Web Phase. 2005-05-03

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 3, 20050 min read
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Getting closer
This is the long, slow version with a big reverb, the original signal subtracted and a new, transposed version laid on top. Basically what you get is a reverb coming back in a different pitch. 2005-05-02

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 2, 20050 min read
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Bordering on obsession
Same original material once again, but this time at the original tempo. I'm playing around with phase relationships and offsets as well as acoustic resonance. 2005-05-01

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 2, 20050 min read
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And furthermore - -
I've taken yesterday's track and made it a bit blurrier. I've also converted to Just Intonation. 2005-04-30 It took three programs to get it this way: Garage Band, Logic Express and Cubase SX 3. I wish I could combine all the features into one program.

John Maxwell Hobbs
May 1, 20050 min read
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More
I liked yesterday's tune, so I made it twice as long, and twice as slow. 2005-04-29

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 29, 20050 min read
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Floating
Expanding on yesterday's track. 2005-04-28 By the way, with yesterday's release, we've hit the 20% mark. Yesterday's piece was #73. Perhaps now is a good time to consider a donation via PayPal or Amazon. You can contribute as little as a dollar or one Euro:

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 28, 20050 min read
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Quiet
A meditation. 2005-04-27

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 27, 20050 min read
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Hmmmmmmm
I'm having a strange interlude . . . . 2005-04-26

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 27, 20050 min read
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. . . and again -
Modification of yesterday's to make it a bit fluffier. 2005-04-25

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 26, 20050 min read
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Going backwards to go forward
Here's a blues in A: 2005-04-24

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 24, 20050 min read
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Stripped
After yesterday's track, I got an idea and went back and stripped down the Retina soundtrack in a similar fashion. Interestingly enough, this stripped down track was far more taxing on my computer than the original. 2005-04-23

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 24, 20050 min read
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Bare
Stripping it down. 2005-04-22

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 23, 20050 min read
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