John Maxwell Hobbs

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

Delay Lama is a free VST instrument that is perfect for using with a joystick controller. I had a great time with this one and want to do more. 2005-11-25

Another joystick track. I’m just enjoying playing free and not thinking about structure or key right now. 2005-11-24

Yesterday’s joystick performance with different sounds. 2005-11-23

Still more of the joystick controller experiments. 2005-11-22

Almost the same setup as the last two days, but this time, the only sound generator is the filter itself. 2005-11-21

More playing around with the joystick setup. I changed the synth patch on this one, other than that, everything else is the same. 2005-11-20

I don’t know about you, but I’m having lots of fun with these noises. I’m using a Junxion from STEIM (the old version) to control both a synth and a filter. Cubase lets me transform the MIDI input on different channels, so I can control more than one thing with the same gesture. There’s a […]