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Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Daily Ambience
Epilogue
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.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 14, 2006
The End
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

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 13, 2006
Big tank
Here's a quick and dirty didjeridoo track set in Gasverket, a huge, brick gas tank here in Stockholm. 2006-02-12

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 12, 2006
Filtered harmonies
This is a pretty version of yesterday's track. 2006-02-11

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 11, 2006
Harmonized chaos
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

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 10, 2006
Random control
Here's a MIDI loop piece with lots of delays, filters and reverb. 2006-02-09

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 9, 2006
Wet
Still playing with filtered delays, but this time I got my didjeridoo involved. 2006-02-08

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 8, 2006
Birthday Song
I used the same configuration as yesterday to record a new, dense track. By the way, it's my birthday. 2006-02-07

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 7, 2006
Pushing it
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.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 6, 2006
Gone totally loopy
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

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 5, 2006
Further further recursion
I've added even more effects to the mix. 2006-02-04

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 4, 2006
Further recursion
I've taken the setup from yesterday and added some processing on top of the signal output from the feedback machines. 2006-02-03

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 3, 2006
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