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, […]
Category Archives: Music
Summer’s here
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
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.
Sten Hanson’s birthday
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
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 […]
Guitar Meditation Three
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
Here’s another Guitar Meditation. Guitar Mediation Three, March 26, 2006.
Guitar Meditation One
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
Here’s the first of the tracks. Guitar Mediation One, March 30, 2006.
Guitar Meditation Two
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
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 […]
Epilogue
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
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 […]
The End
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
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 […]
Big tank
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
Here’s a quick and dirty didjeridoo track set in Gasverket, a huge, brick gas tank here in Stockholm. 2006-02-12
Filtered harmonies
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
This is a pretty version of yesterday’s track. 2006-02-11
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