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Herren had much to reconcile, but he currently sounds up to the task. Preparations and its limited-edition companion, Interregnums, a collection of orchestral swatches, bridges the schism between his organic pigments and jittering assemblages with chromatic motifs beneath dimpled breakbeats. It's the South Bronx gone Lincoln Center, with John Cage and any number of ECM artists spiritually guesting. Preparations' 14 tracks coalesce effortlessly, rife with mirrored reflections of Herren's finer hours (circa 2003's One Word Extinguisher) and flickers of melodic filaments nourished in classical minimalism. "Smoking Red," "Prog Version Slowly Crushed," and "Pomade Suite Version One" are fierce, offering rhythms that get ridden like a drunken hook-up. Alternately, "The Class of 73 Bells," "Girlfriend Boyfriend," and "Spaced & Dissonant" marry heartstrings to actual strings. With this latest Prefuse disc, Herren comes closest to fusing his myriad projects.