Disquiet Junto Project 0664: Mother Beat
The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time.

There is just one step to this project: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time.

Background: This project was proposed by Jason (Bassling) Richardson and his son, Oscar. The inspiration for the time signature that we’re employing is the track “Strong One (Masked Man),” used for the final level of Mother 3, a 2006 Game Boy Advance video game created by Shigesato Itoi. The complexity of the music increases throughout the game, with players finding that the rhythm-based combat system rewards those who can understand the musical patterns, and this allows them to complete encounters more easily. There are some differing opinions online about the specific time signature, but for the sake of this project we’re going with 29/16. Certainly feel free to come to your own conclusion.

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Deadline: Monday, September 23, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0664: Mother Beat

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There is just one step to this project: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time.

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Love this, thanks @bassling and Oscar. Reminds me junto 0529, I went for a 23/8 groove then, now here, as requested a  29/16 pattern, 29 measures of it. Spent the whole Thursday morning on this. 
29/16....tried to make that bastard  groove, and failed magnificently.


I used 6 tracks:
1 Kick track
1 Subdivine Kick/Bass track
4 Tracks of Oberheim's Matrix vst

Cheers
dd

twenty nine (disquiet0664)

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

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20240919 [disquiet0664]

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt: create a composition in 29/16 time. I have never done so much math to make a song.

I subdivided the 29 16th notes into 2 measures of 3/4 (6/8?) followed by 1 measure of 5/16. I started with percussion this time, and spent a lot of time programming and visually manipulating the beat mappings until I found something that didn't feel gimmicky. I created 3 variations to make a loop of a four-part drum progression.

The top screaming synth follows the rhythm precisely but blurs the lines at that 5/16 transition. I think it wraps around the beat nicely.

I was daunted at first but I learned a ton composing this piece, and ended up having a lot of fun. 

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Byzantine Valentine (disquiet0664)

Encounter [disquiet0664]

Recorded & mixed on 19 & 20 Sep 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. 

Process notes -
For this, I put together a 4 track piece in FL Studio and exported stems on Thursday and then reworked those stems along with an altered piece of the full mix in Ableton Live on Friday. 

While I was in FL, I edited 32/16 patterns into 29/16 and also some other time sigs. I tried to keep it minimal, which also makes it a bit harder to count out but in the spirit of the prompt’s description, I enjoy the ambiguity.

Tools used - Fruity Kick,  Caelum Audio Tape Cassette, Arturia Delay TAPE-201, Puremagnetik Gelm,  Moog MF-1045, FL Plucked, Output Portal, FL Pitch Shifter, Ableton Creative Extensions Re-Enveloper, FL DirectWave,  Puremagnetik Pastfabric, Ableton Buffer Shuffler 2, Spectral Blur, Pitchloop89 & other Live native devices.

Artwork/Photography -
Hampton Bays, NY 29 Mar 2015

This original version of “Context Plays A Crucial Role In Determining Meaning” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0664: Mother Beat. The Assignment: Record a piece of music in 29/16 time.

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Context Plays A Crucial Role In Determining Meaning (disquiet0664)

a piece of music written in 29/16 time for the Disquiet Junto.

started and completed September 19, 2024

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median plane [disquiet0664]

Making music is about being surprised.
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Context Plays A Crucial Role In Determining Meaning (disquiet0664)

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