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Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
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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Spooky
A little mystery dub. 2005-04-21

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 21, 20050 min read
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Layers on layers
I took yesterday's track and made it a bit denser. 2005-04-20

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 20, 20050 min read
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Ashes
For my father, Max Edward Hobbs, November 20, 1931 - April 3, 2005. 2005-04-19 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 19, 20050 min read
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