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.

And one to grow on . . . 2006-02-14 This track is a summation of the entire year's output, rendered by iTunes Signature Maker. It examines a group of files, extracts what's similar and combines them into a single audio file. If you want to stream all 366 tracks, here's a Spotify playlist: A Year of Daily Ambience. This has been quite a project - at this point I can't believe it's finished. I'm not sure what comes next. I'll take a bit of time off, then plan the next project.

Here it is, the 365th and final track of this project. This is a piano study placed in Gasverket. The timing and duration of the notes comes from the decay of the reverb. Each note was held until the sound had completely decayed, then the next note would be played, selected somewhat at random. At the same time, the piano was also being sent to Augustus Loop, which was set to a 25 second loop time. 2006-02-13

Here's a quick and dirty didjeridoo track set in Gasverket, a huge, brick gas tank here in Stockholm. 2006-02-12

This is a pretty version of yesterday's track. 2006-02-11

This is a very simple, linear track that uses a MIDI gate and a MIDI controlled filter along with a harmonic generator and some simple patches. 2006-02-10

Here's a MIDI loop piece with lots of delays, filters and reverb. 2006-02-09

Still playing with filtered delays, but this time I got my didjeridoo involved. 2006-02-08

I used the same configuration as yesterday to record a new, dense track. By the way, it's my birthday. 2006-02-07

I took yesterday's track and added even more delays to it. This time ones with filters. 2006-02-06 We're in the home stretch now. Only one week left. Now might be a good time to consider a donation.

The danger with getting new looping software is that I will use it. In fact I'll use all of it at the same time. This is done with Augustus Loop and More Feedback Machine. 2006-02-05

I've added even more effects to the mix. 2006-02-04

I've taken the setup from yesterday and added some processing on top of the signal output from the feedback machines. 2006-02-03

Back to exploring feedback. I've got two feedback machines running that are feeding into two multitap delays that have their own feedback circuits. The audio output of all this is then fed into an couple of envelope followers that control the parameters of the feedback machines. Then the result of that is also feed into the envelope followers, reinforcing the control that the machines have over themselves. 2006-02-02

I really liked the EBow track from yesterday, so I removed it, did a bit of tweaking and now's it's its own piece. 2006-02-01

Here's another ambient groove track with my strat and EBow going into many layers of delays and loops. 2006-01-31

I added more feedback processors to yesterday's setup and this is the result. 2006-01-30 This now marks one year since the project began, but since it was suspended for two weeks following the death of my father, it has not yet reached 365 songs. So, I will continue for another 15 days to make a grand total of 366. That's a year plus one to grow on.

Just funnin' 2006-01-29

I'm working on getting control of all the features available in Augustus Loop. This is an expanded version of yesterday's track, using the MIDI information from the voice to control the pitch of the loop, but delayed a bit. 2006-01-28

I now have a shiny, brand-new copy of Augustus Loop, thanks to the kind folks over at Expert Sleepers. It's a really great software looper, with lots of tweakable parameters and realtime performance control. The thing is, it's an Audio Unit plugin and doesn't work with Cubase, which I use. However, thanks to Soundflower and RAX, I have been able to integrate it with Cubase. It took me all day to figure out how to get it working, and this little piece is the result of that w