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.
Stumble.Stop.Repeat[]
Thrash Waltz[]
You can probably guess this one from the name.
The Fall Of Math[]
Install A Beak In The Heart That Clucks Time In Arabic[]
This song is in 6/8.
Retreat! Retreat![]
This song features 10/4.[1]
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.[2]
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.
One Time For All Time[]
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.
The Destruction Of Small Ideas[]
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.
We Were Exploding Anyway[]
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[]
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.
Silent Running[]
The Scattered Disk[]
This song features 7/8 and plenty of glitches.
Wild Light[]
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.[3] 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.[3]
Unmake The Wild Light[]
This song uses 7/4 time throughout.[4]
Safe Passage[]
This song is in 5/4.
No Man's Sky: Music For An Infinite Universe[]
Heliopshere[]
This song is in 6/4.
Blueprint For A Slow Machine[]
This song features some 5/8, notably during the intro.
replicr, 2019[]
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.[5]
7over8[]
The title track has generative melodies in 7/8 running over beats in 8/8.[6]
Decomp Sketches[]
A Slight Geometry[]
This track is in 15/16.
Tempo Heavy[]
The Back of Things[]
Starts in 4/4 before surreptitiously moving to 5/4 around half way through.
Endings[]
Mother[]
This track is based around a percussive loop in 13/8.[7]
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.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/65daysofstatic-the-fall-of-math
- ↑ http://www.thrashhits.com/2014/03/65daysofstatic-the-fall-of-math-ten-years-later-with-paul-wolinski/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4146880-dissection--65daysofstatic-wild-light-track-by-track
- ↑ https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/65daysofstatic/unmake-the-wild-light-bass-2881943
- ↑ https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/65daysofstatic/trackerplatz-bass-2862290
- ↑ U/U Vol. 4.7 release notes
- ↑ U/U Vol. 4.12 release notes