I did this track with Garageband, which is a truly amazing program that I wish was available when I was 16 years old. I’m still pretty happy to have it now. Garageband does a great job of pulling everything into line, matching tempos, keys and phrases. I’ve worked quite hard to create something that feels […]

One of the fun things about doing recursive processes in the old analog tape world was discovering the interesting sound quality that would arise from the generation loss as you bounced the signal from tape to tape. This doesn’t really happen in the digital world, where copies are perfect. One thing that I have been […]

Just a big wash of sound. Press play, sit back, relax and ignore it. 2005-05-16

This project is now one quarter of the way through. To celebrate that, I morphed two of my favorite tracks so far. Can you guess which two they are? 2005-05-15

As promised yesterday, the dijeridoo makes a return appearance, this time sent through the feedback machine and a whole bunch of frequency and spectral processors. 2005-05-14

I reintroduced the feedback machine with a few modulation and panning twists. I think I’ve taken this path as far as I can at the moment. Tomorrow – the return of the long wooden tube! 2005-05-13

Similar processes to the last few, but no feedback this time. There’s delay lines and moving filters. Amazing to think that this all began with a simple sine wave. 2005-05-12 A big thanks to the person who sent a donation yesterday.

Continuing with the feedback machine process. This time there’s a slight difference. I used yesterday’s track as the source for the feedback, but this time set up the feedback machine as a send instead of as an insert, so you can still hear the original track beneath the new sounds. 2005-05-11

Same process as yesterday, using yesterday’s track as the trigger, with another moving filter and a reverb added. 2005-05-10 For those of you who live in Sweden, Denmark, Norway or Switzerland, Apple’s iTunes Music store is now available to you. This means that you can buy Cinema Volta albums online. If you live in Switzerland, […]

Continuing in the same vein. I took yesterdays track and used it as the source material for the feedback machine I created. I tweaked the parameters a bit and came up with this. My wife thinks it sounds like a Doctor Who soundtrack. 2005-05-09