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Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Pulse 3
Some different pulses with feedback. 2006-01-22

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 22, 20060 min read
Pulse 2
Same pulses with some different processing and feedback. 2006-01-21

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 21, 20060 min read
Pulse 1
Some quiet pulsing noises. 2006-01-20

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 20, 20060 min read
Darker
I took yesterday's setup and tweaked it just a bit to come up with something a little more ordered and darker in mood. 2006-01-19

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 19, 20060 min read
Apollo and Dionysus
Here's a very structured piano and a cello that's all over the place. This was made with phasing loops, MIDI arpeggiation and a nice little program that forces all the notes into one key. That was necessary for the arpeggiator to stay in tune with the rest of the piece. 2006-01-18

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 18, 20060 min read
Gilding the lily
I'm using the same looping and delay setup as I have been in the last few days, but this time the input is my didjeridoo. The reverb comes from Laukyrkan in Sweden. 2006-01-17

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 17, 20060 min read
Feedback study #11
And the last in the feedback series for the moment. 2006-01-16

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 16, 20060 min read
Feedback study #10
And another in the series. Besides feedback, these tracks have a lot of multitap delays and three instances of Loopy Llama, one of them running backwards. 2006-01-15

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 15, 20060 min read
Feedback study #9
And some more. 2006-01-14 We are now in the final month. There are only 30 more tracks to go.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 14, 20060 min read
Feedback study #8
Even more feedback. 2006-01-13

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 13, 20060 min read
Soundtrack
I'm pleased to announce that this project has led to another collaboration. The Austrian artist Evelin Stermitz has used the track 2005-09-16 as the soundtrack for her video art piece "Red Velvet." You can read more about her at her website.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 12, 20060 min read
Feedback study #7
Another feedback track. 2006-01-12

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 12, 20060 min read
Feedback study #6
More in the feedback series. There will be several in a row based on the tracks from the past few days. 2006-01-11

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 11, 20060 min read
Pondering
Same processes as the last two days, but a very different input and result. 2006-01-10

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 10, 20060 min read
Monday wash
Almost the same as yesterday. 2006-01-09

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 9, 20060 min read
Sunday wash
A bunch of noises in a big, glassy space. 2006-01-08

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 8, 20060 min read
Today
Just a quiet feedback track. 2006-01-07

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 7, 20060 min read
Take two
This is what should have happened yesterday. 2006-01-06

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 6, 20060 min read
The sound of dying machines
This is a recording of me trying to use my EBow as the battery runs out of juice. 2006-01-05

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 5, 20060 min read
Drone meditation
Still pursuing the possibilities in the harmonized loop setup I've been using for the past few days. This time the notes from the track from two days ago are being used to control a gate and a filter inserted into a mutating harmonic drone. 2006-01-04

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 4, 20060 min read
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