<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hello everyone,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Today, the Daily Ambience project reached the 3/4 mark. There have been 274 songs so far, I've only got 92 more to go to reach 366. I chose 366 because 2006 will be a leap year, and I don't want to cheat anyone out of a full year of music.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-John</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#4F40FD" face="Arial" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">Cinema Volta: Daily Ambience</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#8E81FD" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Fresh Ambient Music Composed Daily</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AB90FF" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">a new tune every day, free of charge </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020FD" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">at: </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.cinemavolta.com/daily"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0016EC">http://www.cinemavolta.com/daily</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>About Cinema Volta: Daily Ambience:</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px">As an exploration of ambient music and the limits of my own creativity, I have been composing and releasing a new song every day.</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px">Sometimes these songs are sketches, sometimes full-blown compositions, it all depends on my inspiration and my available time.</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><B>About Cinema Volta:</B></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px">Cinema Volta consists of John Maxwell Hobbs, a stack of electronic equipment, musical instruments in various states of disrepair and occasional collaborators.<BR><BR> John Maxwell Hobbs is an electronic musician based in Stockholm Sweden who has been working with computer multimedia and telecommunications for more than eighteen years. His contributions to the early days of music on the web have been documented in the book <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415966752/cinemavolta-20/104-1065869-1215130/104-1065869-1215130?creative=327641"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0016EC">"Virtual Music"</FONT></A> by William Duckworth.</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px">From the book:</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px">"In a review of his interactive online instrument, <A href="http://www.cinemavolta.com/phaseframe.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0016EC">Web Phases</FONT></A>, Kyle Gann of the Village Voice described it as being 'on a noticeably higher artistic level' than the earliest tape-music and computer-music pieces, concluding that 'the potential for social reorientation is even more incredible,' and predicting 'we'll look back and say 1998 was the year our relationship to music entered a new era.'"<BR><BR> For much of the '90s he was the Producing Director of The Kitchen in New York where he was involved in producing the performances by Philip Glass, DJ Spooky, David Hykes and many others.</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px">He is the Vice President of the board of directors of <A href="http://www.vanguardvisions.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0016EC">Vanguard Visions</FONT></A>, an organization dedicated to fostering the work of artists experimenting with technology and also served on the Digital Arts subcommittee of the Mayor's Council on New Media in New York City. His interactive composition <A href="http://www.cinemavolta.com/phaseframe.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0016EC">Web Phases</FONT></A> was one of the winners of ASCI's Digital '98 competition. He has collaborated with artist/programmer <A href="http://www.potatoland.org/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0016EC">Mark Napier</FONT></A> on <A href="http://www.cinemavolta.com/ripple.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0016EC">Ripple</FONT></A>, an interactive musical instrument.</P></BODY></HTML>