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Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Album launch - Sporadic Outbursts
I'm pleased to announce that my new album, "Sporadic Outbursts" will be released on the 9th of December to all streaming services. I've put together a collection of ambient guitar studies. Originally released on this site under the Sporadic Outbursts heading, these are explorations that led to the creation of "Music Chamber" and "Live in Glasgow," and fit together nicely as a collection. These tracks also marked my return to playing guitar after a 20 year diversion into keybo

John Maxwell Hobbs
Nov 27, 20220 min read
Some new music
I've just finished a three part guitar piece called, "And Angels Sing Thee To Thy Rest," and here are the rough mixes of them. They are very simple pieces each in an open tuning, and all of them played into a massive reverb. Part 3 was written for David Gamper and performed at his memorial concert at Roulette in NYC last year. Part 1 is in open D on my Stratocaster, using two Spider capos. Part 2 is in open E on my Yamaha acoustic, also using the Spider capos. Part 3 is

John Maxwell Hobbs
Aug 19, 20130 min read
March Loop
I only took four years, but here's a new one: March Loop by Cinema Volta

John Maxwell Hobbs
Mar 5, 20110 min read
Infinitity
Another new track and this time you didn't have to wait six months for it. This track was made very simply with just my Les Paul, my eBow and a really long, dense reverb courtesy of RaySpace. There were no looping or harmonic effects used at all, which is unusual for me. Infinite guitar 1 It's interesting how an instrument can guide you in certain directions. My Strat leads me to play mostly in A and G, while my Les Paul demands to be played in E.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Mar 18, 20070 min read
New stuff
Here's a new track done with a new guitar on a new computer with new software in a new apartment in a new city in a new year. I recorded this in my flat in Glasgow with my brand spanking new ebony Les Paul custom on an Intel iMac using Cubase 4. New Guitar 2, 24th February, 2007. I did use some old stuff to make this as well, primarily my very, very old eBow. I also had to use Cubase SX 3 to do the final master because Cubase 4 doesn't support dithering yet.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 24, 20070 min read
Summer's here
I told you this would be sporadic. Here's a slow guitar mediation. It's just something dashed off pretty quickly, has a lot of distortion, but I like it anyway. Guitar Mediation One, June 16, 2006.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jun 16, 20060 min read
Sten Hanson's birthday
Sten Hanson recently had a birthday celebration at Fylkingen here in Stockholm. Sten's old friend and my fairly new friend Charlie Morrow was not able to make it over from New York for the event, so he asked me to assist him in a collaborative piece. He chose two tracks, one of his and one of Sten's and I assembled them into this track, adding some of my processes as the glue to hold them together. Sten's Birthday Now for the fine print. This track is not covered by the Crea

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 22, 20060 min read
Guitar Meditation Three
Here's another Guitar Meditation. Guitar Mediation Three, March 26, 2006.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 11, 20060 min read
Guitar Meditation One
Here's the first of the tracks. Guitar Mediation One, March 30, 2006.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 11, 20060 min read
Guitar Meditation Two
And another one. By now, you can see the biggest difference between this project and Daily Ambience is that the tracks are not necessarily posted in chronological order. These guitar meditations make heavy use of filtered delays and slowly decaying loops. I'm working on ways of making the setup I use responsive to playing. I've got a long way to go, so there will be more of these in the future. Guitar Mediation Two, March 26, 2006.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Apr 10, 20060 min read
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