John Maxwell Hobbs

More funk today. This time I’m using my EBow into Looplex. 2005-12-05

I had a lot of fun with yesterday’s track, and it’s inspired me to pull out the funk again. Today’s is just a sketch for something I’m going to do a lot of work with. I’m using Cubase instead of Live, because it fits the way I work much better. Live handles tempo-locked loops really […]

This is out of left field. I decided to play around with Live, which I’ve never used before. This is what happened. 2005-12-03 I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but I used to have a funk band in New York in the late 80s – early 90s called, “Your Monkey’s Not Funny.”

Here’s another Delay Lama/joystick track because they’re so much fun to do. This time it’s two voices a fifth apart with harmonizing and filtering that are also controlled by the joystick. 2005-12-02

And here’s the version for marimba. There are two lines here, each doubled and phasing. 2005-12-01

This is a piano variation on the original track. It’s different than yesterday’s variation in that it is not a layering of the same melody line – instead, the piano is playing the lines from all the voices. 2005-11-30

This is a variation of the piece using only the voice line. It’s back in the cistern. 2005-11-29

I took yesterday’s structure rules and applied it to a reverb with a shorter decay time. The piece is much faster and much shorter, but it still retains the space and feeling of slowness. 2005-11-28

This is a generative loop piece. Each instrument plays one of three notes, and then waits for the sound to decay to silence before playing the next note. The whole thing is placed in the reverb from the cistern which has a 45 second decay. 2005-11-27

Here’s six Delay Lamas singing in Upsalla’s Domkyrkan. 2005-11-26