This patch is actually built on the exact same framework as the vastly more clubby piece I posted a few days ago. Not one cable has been moved ... and yet it sounds like an entirely different machine (Makenoise Maths once again doing crazy amount of work at multiple points of modulation.) This speaks to one of my favorite aspects of modular synthesis ... by clearing the sequencers and experimenting with different settings on the modulation sources, the patch spews out an entirely different palette of sound from the same configuration!
I'm a huge fan of Alessando Cortini (most visibly the keyboard player of Nine Inch Nails but so infinitely more interesting than just that...) and having consumed a voracious amount of his work, interviews and instagram, I was lucky enough to stumble on him waxing poetic about his workflow. Basically he starts working on a patch, produces a little music, returns to the patch the next day and adds more layers, produces a little more music. Over the course of a few days he ends up with a fabulously interconnected, evolving and generative patch ... and several pieces of music composed along the way. He is then free to turn a wildly complicated patch loose and see if anything completely experimental pops out (and given he's working in Buchla-world most of the time, it's almost a foregone conclusion.)
Obviously what I am doing here isn't breaking any wild new ground, but I definitely stumbled upon some "electricity sounding" blips that I am sure to replicate in future work. Leaving a patch up for a few days and returning to the headspace you were in at 5am with a clear head and intricately wired machine is the kinda hybrid left brain / right brain creative space I set out to find when I began my modular journey!
