Time Signatures

While most music will work perfectly in 4/4, some require odd time shenanigans. 65daysofstatic's musicians love using these devices to create noise.

Time signature notation is made of two numbers: the first is the number of beats in a bar (i.e. the song's pattern) and the second one is the note value (how long the note resonates). In other words, the first number is used to count the beat, while the second one gives an idea of how fast these counted notes are played (not to be confused with BPM).

Compiled below is a list of interesting time signatures found throughout the band's recordings.

Thrash Waltz
You can probably guess this one from the name.

Install A Beak In The Heart That Clucks Time In Arabic
This song is in 6/8.

Retreat! Retreat!
This song features 10/4.

I Swallowed Hard, Like I Understood
The song starts in 5/4. It then cleverly switched to one bar of 6/4 followed by one of 5/4, thus echoing the band's name as a signature.

Hole
This song is in 6/8.

Fix The Sky A Little
This song is in 7/8.

AOD
This bonus track (or B-side) is in 7/4.

Await Rescue
This song switches to 7/8 during the bridge just to make it even harder to cover for poor 65kids.

65 Doesn't Understand You
This song is also in 7/8 to spite you.

When We Were Younger And Better
This song is in 11/8.

Don't Go Down To Sorrow
This song features 3/4 but shifts to 5/4 for the second segment (starting at 3:45).

Wax Futures
This song features polyrhythms around 6/8 time.

These Things You Can't Unlearn
This song features 5/4 in some parts.

Primer
This song has a combination of 5/8 and 18/8 (5+5+5+3), with a finale cycling through 5/8, 4/8 and 3/8.

The Conspiracy Of Seeds
This song is a fiesta of odd time signatures. Counting them is above this page admin's paygrade. Unconfirmed rumours suggest it's mostly in 14+16+14+12/8, with brief interludes of 8/8 (with the guitar playing 3+3+2) and 11/8 (with the guitar playing 3+3+3+2) part way through.

Mountainhead
This song appears to feature a combination of sections in 17/8 (intro, outro, and a short section ~1/3 of the way through), alternating measures of 17/8 and 16/8 (following the intro), and straight 16/8 in the remainder. The 16/8 sections can be heard as groups of 6+6+4.

Piano Fights
This song features 11/8 time.

Debutante
This song is in 6/8.

Inside
This song features a polymeter with a 3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+2/8 piano part over 4 bars of 4/4.

The Scattered Disk
This song features 7/8 and plenty of glitches.

The Undertow
Part of the song is in 29/8, although it should be subdivided in changing time signatures to make any sense at all. For instance, it could be counted as 7-7-6-6-3.

Taipei
This song is in 5/4 but initially included a polyrythm with 6/4.

Unmake The Wild Light
This song uses 7/4 time throughout.

Safe Passage
This song is in 5/4.

Heliopshere
This song is in 6/4.

Blueprint For A Slow Machine
This song features some 5/8, notably during the intro.

Bad Age
This song starts with a clave-like pattern with 4 steady beats followed by three slower ones and a fast one. It is in 13/8.

Five Waves
The main parts of the song are in 5/8.

Trackerplatz
This song uses 9/8 time throughout.

7over8
The title track has generative melodies in 7/8 running over beats in 8/8.

A Slight Geometry
This track is in 15/16.

The Back of Things
Starts in 4/4 before surreptitiously moving to 5/4 around half way through.

Mother
This track is based around a percussive loop in 13/8.

Under The Summs
The title track is in 5/8.

Wreckage Systems
Unsurprisingly, a number of V2 wreckage systems also play with interesting time signatures:


 * Like it's namesake from Tempo Heavy, "Seed // Back of Things" features 5/4.
 * "Pianoblivion" features 5/4.
 * "SummsThUnder" also features 5/4. Who would have thought?

Solo Projects
Paul Wolinski's solo work also features some interesting time signatures. For example:


 * "Tangents" from Labyrinths is mostly in 5/4 (with a 4/4 section in the middle)
 * "Kressyda" from Labyrinths is in 15/8
 * "AWaltzoflight" from Labyrinths includes sections in 6/8 and 5/8
 * "30N" from Labyrinths is in 6/4
 * "Misericordia" from Labyrinths is in 6/4
 * "Tremories (Cosmonaut Edit)" from Labyrinths (Test Edits) is in 15/8
 * "Full Bleed" from Full Bleed is in 5/4
 * "Replicator" from the Blood OST is in 7/4
 * "Comotope" from A Hail of Tiny Cages is in 7/4.