John Maxwell Hobbs

I really enjoyed playing with the setup from yesterday, so here’s another guitar improvisation in a similar vein. 2005-10-17

A guitar improvisation. It’s pretty simple, my Strat and EBow played into a couple of harmonized delays and placed in Gasverket thanks to Rayverb. 2005-10-16

This has the same instrumentation as yesterday with a few tweaks. The compositional approach is similar to yesterday’s as well, but I’m trying to be more melodic, sparser, but a little more structured. I’m still not quite where I want to be with this type of music, but I’m getting closer. I’ve been playing around […]

This is just an old-fashioned, non-synched looping piece with almost no effects, just a little flanging and a little reverb. Nothing being done here that couldn’t have been done in the 70’s at one thousand times the price. 2005-10-14

I hate to go back on a promise, but I took yesterday’s configuration and ran it through a ring modulator. Not only that, but I even interfered with the process by tweaking the settings of the ring modulator throughout the course of the track. I had fun doing it too – I just don’t know […]

I used two feedback machines triggered by the the same piano note. Then I convolved both the left and right outputs of the two feedback machines and fed that back into the feedback machines. I then ran that into a resonating multitap delay and then through another multitap delay with analog tape modeling. I stuck […]

Lather, rinse, repeat. 2005-10-11

Same setup as yesterday, but I’ve tweaked all the processors and put the whole mix into the cistern. 2005-10-10

Another self-generating feedback piece. This is all generated by a single note on the piano. There are filtering delays, multitap stereo delays, MIDI delays and arpeggiators, pitch shifters and feedback networks at work here. And it all goes into the acoustic space of Laukyrkan with its standing waves. 2005-10-09

This is the same approach as yesterday, I just switched the source and filter tracks. The result is quite different. 2005-10-08 Also, by doing five of these, I’ve broken the symmetry with the “Symmetry” series, so this is truly asymmetrical.