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Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
More rain
Some more rain and the sound of an empty flagpole. 2005-07-31

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 31, 20050 min read
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Rain on S
For the next two weeks I'll be exploring "pure" ambience and posting a series of 60 second recordings of the sounds of the Stockholm archipelago. 2005-07-30

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 30, 20050 min read
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Distant voice
Once again exploring the same process. 2005-07-29

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 29, 20050 min read
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Another simple loop
Still playing around with the setup, doing a few tweaks and trying it with a cello patch this time instead of using my guitar. 2005-07-28

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 28, 20050 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Just the shell
This time it's all feedback and delays. 2005-07-23

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 23, 20050 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Loop 4
The same, but different. 2005-07-16

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 16, 20050 min read
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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
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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
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Loop
Just a loop piece. 2005-07-13

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jul 13, 20050 min read
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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
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