I’m pleased to announce that my new album, “Sporadic Outbursts” will be released on the 9th of December to all streaming services. I’ve put together a collection of ambient guitar studies. Originally released on this site under the Sporadic Outbursts heading, these are explorations that led to the creation of “Music Chamber” and “Live in […]
Category Archives: Sporadic Outbursts
Some new music
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
I’ve just finished a three part guitar piece called, “And Angels Sing Thee To Thy Rest,” and here are the rough mixes of them. They are very simple pieces each in an open tuning, and all of them played into a massive reverb. Part 3 was written for David Gamper and performed at his memorial […]
March Loop
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
I only took four years, but here’s a new one: March Loop by Cinema Volta
Infinitity
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
Another new track and this time you didn’t have to wait six months for it. This track was made very simply with just my Les Paul, my eBow and a really long, dense reverb courtesy of RaySpace. There were no looping or harmonic effects used at all, which is unusual for me. Infinite guitar 1 […]
New stuff
posted by John Maxwell Hobbs
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, […]
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 […]