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Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Simple loop
Just a variation on yesterday's setup, the EBow is back. It's really difficult not to overplay, so I'm working on playing less. I still think I could be even more sparse, so I'll probably be working with this setup for a while. 2005-07-27

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 27, 20050 min read
Echo Blues
Same technical setup as yesterday, minus the EBow. This is sort of a blues in A minor, sort of . . . 2005-07-26

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 26, 20050 min read
Harmonized echoes
Pretty simple - ebow guitar with pitch shifted delays and a long looping delay run into the acoustics of Lau Kyrkan and its standing waves. 2005-07-25

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 25, 20050 min read
Machine Duet
This is a duet between the feedback/delay machine and me on bass. 2005-07-24

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 24, 20050 min read
Just the shell
This time it's all feedback and delays. 2005-07-23

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 23, 20050 min read
Loop 9
Getting further and further away from the source, I took the result from yesterday and used it to generate feedback. 2005-07-22

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 22, 20050 min read
Loop 8 Approximately
I took the last two tracks, flipped the phase on one of them and mixed them together at the same level. This has filtered out whatever was in common between the two and left only the differences. 2005-07-21

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 21, 20050 min read
Loop 7
Same process as yesterday, the only difference is that the source and filter sounds for the convolving have been reversed. 2005-07-20

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 20, 20050 min read
Loop 6
I took the last two loops and convolved them, then used the output to feed a bunch of modulators. 2005-07-19

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 19, 20050 min read
Music for real films
This is the end track for a short film I'm scoring. It uses the dialog track a source material for a series of transformations. 2005-07-18 By the way, my technical problems have been solved, and all the links should be back to normal.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 19, 20050 min read
Loop 5
Took the base material from the 15th and made it much denser. 2005-07-17

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 17, 20050 min read
Loop 4
The same, but different. 2005-07-16

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 16, 20050 min read
Loop 3
Continuing to work with the raw materials of the loop. This time using different sounds and very different processing. 2005-07-15

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 15, 20050 min read
Loop again
Highly modified version of yesterday's track which was a little too sloppy even for me. 2005-07-14

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 14, 20050 min read
Loop
Just a loop piece. 2005-07-13

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 13, 20050 min read
Web Phases 4
Still using the Web Phases source material. Garageband was the tool on this one. It kind of feels like early 70s New York to me. 2005-07-12

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 12, 20050 min read
Web Phases 3
Yet another track based on the Web Phases material, highly modified. 2005-07-11

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 11, 20050 min read
Web Phases 2
Another track based on the Web Phases material. This one is a bit quieter. 2005-07-10

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 10, 20050 min read
Web Phases 1
This is based on the interactive web instrument on this site called "Web Phases." Thanks to Michael Johnston from my old band for the drum tracks he recorded for me all those years ago. 2005-07-09

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 9, 20050 min read
20 Tracks
I took the tracks from the last two days and convolved them. It's starting to turn into a nice wash of tones. 2005-07-08

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 8, 20050 min read
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