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Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Remembering memory
This is a new version of the track from yesterday. I made a lot of changes to the processing to get closer to the concept of remembering. 2005-12-17

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 17, 20050 min read
Hearing voices
The is a piece about voice and memory. 2005-12-16

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 16, 20050 min read
Return of the bells
Ten months later, I return to my obsession with bells. 2005-12-15

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 15, 20050 min read
Didjeridoo agitation
I threw a bunch of effects into the mix. The basic track is the same as yesterday, but the results are much different. Just me, my didjeridoo and the cistern. 2005-12-14

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 14, 20050 min read
Didjeridoo meditation
Just me, my didjeridoo and the cistern. 2005-12-13

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 13, 20050 min read
Guitar meditation 2
This is a reworking of yesterday's guitar piece. I've changed a couple of the effects and added some more to get more of a wash of sound. 2005-12-12

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 12, 20050 min read
Guitar meditation
I'm still enamored with the effects chain of the past two days, so I decided to try it with guitar. I like how it turned out. 2005-12-11

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 11, 20050 min read
Piano meditation
I really liked the effects chain I set up yeserday, so I created a piano piece using it. 2005-12-10 By the way, this is track number 300. Only 66 more to go.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 10, 20050 min read
Absence
This is based on yesterday's track, but only echoes - the main signal has been removed. 2005-12-09

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 9, 20050 min read
Quick and dirty
An EBow track with lots of delays. 2005-12-08

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 8, 20050 min read
Being quiet for a minute
Calming things down a bit, here's a feedback/delay piece using the track from the 27th as the source material. 2005-12-07

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 7, 20050 min read
Autofunk
Here's the computer getting funky. The feedback is generated by the drum and bass track running through the feedback machine and several multi-tap delays. 2005-12-06

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 6, 20050 min read
EBow Groove
More funk today. This time I'm using my EBow into Looplex. 2005-12-05

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 5, 20050 min read
Joystick funk
I had a lot of fun with yesterday's track, and it's inspired me to pull out the funk again. Today's is just a sketch for something I'm going to do a lot of work with. I'm using Cubase instead of Live, because it fits the way I work much better. Live handles tempo-locked loops really well, but is not so good with live recording. That's fine, because I'm not really interested in creating music out of other people's music. With the exception of the drum track, I played every

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 4, 20050 min read
Cyberlama is on the one
This is out of left field. I decided to play around with Live, which I've never used before. This is what happened. 2005-12-03 I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but I used to have a funk band in New York in the late 80s - early 90s called, "Your Monkey's Not Funny."

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 3, 20050 min read
Duet for Cyberlama
Here's another Delay Lama/joystick track because they're so much fun to do. This time it's two voices a fifth apart with harmonizing and filtering that are also controlled by the joystick. 2005-12-02

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 2, 20050 min read
Variation for marimba
And here's the version for marimba. There are two lines here, each doubled and phasing. 2005-12-01

John Maxwell Hobbs
Dec 1, 20050 min read
Variation for piano
This is a piano variation on the original track. It's different than yesterday's variation in that it is not a layering of the same melody line - instead, the piano is playing the lines from all the voices. 2005-11-30

John Maxwell Hobbs
Nov 30, 20050 min read
Variation for voices
This is a variation of the piece using only the voice line. It's back in the cistern. 2005-11-29

John Maxwell Hobbs
Nov 29, 20050 min read
Faster decay
I took yesterday's structure rules and applied it to a reverb with a shorter decay time. The piece is much faster and much shorter, but it still retains the space and feeling of slowness. 2005-11-28

John Maxwell Hobbs
Nov 28, 20050 min read
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