Cinema Volta: Daily Ambience

Parental rating: Not applicable Links: RSS Feed Hosts: not available Show contact: Last update: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100 Managing editor: not available Language: en-us Skype:

 Fresh ambient music composed daily.

How did you like the show?
Report a problem

Reviews:

Review this podcast

Review this podcast

Episodes

• (5mb)
  Epilogue
  Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  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 an MP3 Playlist.

  If you want to get the entire thing via RSS, here's a feed that covers the entire year.

  This has been quite a project - at this point I can't believe it's finished. I'm not sure what comes next. I'll take a bit of time off, then plan the next project. I've really learned a great deal from creating in this fashion, and it's not something I want to give up. I will probably continue to create on a regular basis like this because it's a good way to stay on form.

  I'll let you in on a little secret. Because I've been doing a lot of traveling in the last two months, I've had to work ahead in order to be able to publish daily. The 365th track was recorded on the 28th of January, so I met my goal of completing the project within a one year period, despite the 16 day hiatus.

  Thanks to everyone who has offered encouragement and support, particularly my wife, Lauren Amazeen.

  Vi ses,

  -John

  
  
  
• (15mb)
  The End
  Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  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 the same time, the piano was also being sent to Augustus Loop, which was set to a 25 second loop time.

  2006-02-13

  
  
  
• (5mb)
  Big tank
  Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  Here's a quick and dirty didjeridoo track set in Gasverket, a huge, brick gas tank here in Stockholm. 2006-02-12

  
  
  
• (6mb)
  Filtered harmonies
  Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  This is a pretty version of yesterday's track. 2006-02-11

  
  
  
• (6mb)
  Harmonized chaos
  Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  This is a very simple, linear track that uses a MIDI gate and a MIDI controlled filter along with a harmonic generator and some simple patches. 2006-02-10

  
  
  
• (10mb)
  Random control
  Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  Here's a MIDI loop piece with lots of delays, filters and reverb. 2006-02-09

  
  
  
• (6mb)
  Wet
  Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  Still playing with filtered delays, but this time I got my didjeridoo involved. 2006-02-08

  
  
  
• (7mb)
  Birthday Song
  Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  I used the same configuration as yesterday to record a new, dense track. By the way, it's my birthday. 2006-02-07

  
  
  
• (7mb)
  Pushing it
  Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  I took yesterday's track and added even more delays to it. This time ones with filters. 2006-02-06

  We're in the home stretch now. Only one week left. Now might be a good time to consider a donation.

  
  
  
• (7mb)
  Gone totally loopy
  Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  The danger with getting new looping software is that I will use it. In fact I'll use all of it at the same time. This is done with Augustus Loop and More Feedback Machine. 2006-02-05

  
  
  
• (5mb)
  Further further recursion
  Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  I've added even more effects to the mix. 2006-02-04

  
  
  
• (5mb)
  Further recursion
  Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  I've taken the setup from yesterday and added some processing on top of the signal output from the feedback machines. 2006-02-03

  
  
  
• (5mb)
  Recursive
  Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  Back to exploring feedback. I've got two feedback machines running that are feeding into two multitap delays that have their own feedback circuits. The audio output of all this is then fed into an couple of envelope followers that control the parameters of the feedback machines. Then the result of that is also feed into the envelope followers, reinforcing the control that the machines have over themselves. 2006-02-02

  
  
  
• (8mb)
  Grooveless
  Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  I really liked the EBow track from yesterday, so I removed it, did a bit of tweaking and now's it's its own piece. 2006-02-01

  
  
  
• (8mb)
  Delayed groove
  Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:10:00 +0100
  

  Here's another ambient groove track with my strat and EBow going into many layers of delays and loops. 2006-01-31