As an artist and a thinker, Massimo Magee has been consistently drawn towards patterns: traditions, lines of influence, schools and the unexpected intersections of each. This album, 'Toneflower', presents a solo program, meditating on many of those concepts. As an entirely improvised set of pieces, it is also inspired by Anthony Braxton's solo alto tradition and the larger solo saxophone canon. Similarly, it draws from Magee's prior percussive experimentations with Tim Green and Karlheinz Stockhausen's use of contact microphones.