This patch is an homage to an aesthetics of sound heard in certain instrumental and electronic works composed in the 1950s and early 1960s. I’m especially fascinated by the music of Morton Feldman, so I’ve employed some (superficial?) characteristic aspects of his music – low dynamics, sparse sounds, silence, unconventional instrumentation – to create an infinitely self-generative patch (extremely long performance duration is a characteristic of later Feldman works).

Incidentally, Feldman wrote very little music for tape or electronic instruments. He also avoided the traps of overly strict 12-tone and serial techniques, preferring instead to work with the concept of the “total chromatic” espoused by his teacher Stefan Wolpe. This patch attempts to recreate that unsystematic harmony by the use of Jeremy Wentworth’s Quantizer set to Chromatic (Feldman was also relatively uninterested in microtuning or any intonation other than equal temperament).

Please feel free to improve this patch. I consider it an etude and I look forward to any additions and/or extensions other users might add.

Required modules:

JW Simple Clock
JW Quantizer
HetrickCV Random Gates
ML Sequential Switch 8to1
ML Shift Register
Southpole Sssh
Befaco Dual Atenuverter
Befaco EvenVCO
mscHack Dronez
Vult Freak (can be replaced by free Vult Tangents)
Audible Instruments Resonator
Audible Instruments Modal Synthesizer
SynthKit Clock Divivder
Autodafe Multiplier 1to8
AS 8-ch Mixer
AS Flow
AS ADSR
ValleyAudio Plateau
Frozen Wasteland BPM LFO
Frozen Wasteland Seriously Slow LFO
Bogaudio ADSR
Bogaudio DGate
Squinky Labs Chopper