Cinema Volta: Daily Ambience
Fresh ambient music composed daily.
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Cyberlama chorus
Here's six Delay Lamas singing in Upsalla's Domkyrkan. 2005-11-26
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Cyberlama
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
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Still playing
Another joystick track. I'm just enjoying playing free and not thinking about structure or key right now. 2005-11-24
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Dreaming in a tunnel
Yesterday's joystick performance with different sounds. 2005-11-23
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Sleeping in a tunnel
Still more of the joystick controller experiments. 2005-11-22
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Just a ghost
Almost the same setup as the last two days, but this time, the only sound generator is the filter itself. 2005-11-21
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Another take
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
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Different noises.
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 bit of ...
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Twinkle
Another joystick piece. I'm starting to get a feel for the type of control that's possible with this. 2005-11-18
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Wind
Just a simple track full of seemingly random atmospherics. Actually, it's not particularly random, I just worked hard to make it feel that way. All of the sounds were chosen for their harmonic richness, but they are hard to identify as specific notes. This is also a totally "pure" mix - no compre ...
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Proceeding with glacial slowness
Next step in the development. I've added another track and made a lot of modifications as far as the routing sounds to the delays go. Just trying to thin it out a bit to give the echoes more room to breathe. 2005-10-30
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2nd step
No big change, I just added another instrument doing something slightly different. 2005-10-29
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1st step
I've carved it up a bit and let the delays take more of a role. We'll see where this leads us. 2005-10-28
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Forward into the past
All these delay pieces have inspired me to go back to a way I worked a long time ago - slowly building up layers to create a soundscape and then cutting away sections to form a structure. Over the next few days I'll be doing that with this track. 2005-10-27
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Mid autumn
I've brought back the EBow. This is using the harmonized delays and the four loopers. Other than that, no tricks, just a guitar improvisation. 2005-10-26
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The day after that
I was pleased with the way this setup worked with traditional backing, so I tried it with non-traditional accompaniment. I had the feedback machine play along with the track from the 23rd. 2005-10-25
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The following day
After listening to yesterday's track a couple of times, I thought it might go well with other instruments. I took all the delays and synced them to a tempo and added a fairly traditional rhythm section to it, playing a slow groove. 2005-10-24
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Sunday morning
Still exploring what can be done with a guitar and multiple delays. This one has four harmonized multitap delays going into four cycling loops with different lengths. Once again, most of the effects used are free: Harm-Z, Delayifier and Looplex. 2005-10-23
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Build up
This one is made of lots of looping and multitap delays put into a beautiful acoustic space. Still guitar-based, and still the same scale I've playing around with for days. Almost all of the effects I'm using are freeware - some of them are quite amazing. The C3 multiband compressor from Slim Slo ...
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Revision
Upon review, I found that the tracks from the 16th through the 20th had some problems related to encoding them as MP3s, so I've remixed them so they work better in that format. By the way, if you use iTunes, I strongly recommend that you go into "Preferences" and under the "Playback" settings, turn ...
Cinema Volta: Daily Ambience
