Thanks to everyone who attended the release party for The Flower to Disappear. It was my favorite one I've done so far, and it is all thanks to you.
This piece was patched and recorded especially for the listening party broadcast, with the intent being to essentially design and convey a picturesque landscape that could exist just outside of the album. Textures, scales, timbralities, pacing, all things that carry over from the sequencing and presentation of Flower.
It makes me feel hopeful and happy, it sounds vibrant and alive and sun-coated, and I hope that it sounds that way for you too.
PATCH NOTES: The Consonance of Joy consists of a fully generative, hands-free modular arrangement. Two Buchla VCOs within a 258t module were routed into two low-pass filters - 2HP and Doepfer 121-3 - where they were modulated pre/post-filter by incommensurable LFOs (sourced from Dreadbox Ataxia/Utopia, Buchla 281t) and multed into two different FX processors (Strymon Magneto digital tape delay module and Mutable Instruments Clouds granular/probabilistic reverb), with stereo outputs from both machines sent into a Behringer 308 for quad panning. For triggers/clock, Missed Opportunities was used to generate four different random but subtractive trigger outputs, and these were sent into Ornament and Crime (on Quantermain pitch quantizer mode), which used them to convey two different major pentatonic scales, with the internal CV source from a fractal sequence of the interspersion A163253 (
oeis.org/A163256 ), and the same incommensurable modulation sources listed above were also sent as four different inputs to further animate the fractal sequences' attributes.