Disquiet Junto Project 0694: 5/4ify
The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music.

There is just one step to this project: Take a pre-existing piece of music that is in 4/4 — either your own or something in the public domain — and add a beat to each measure, transforming it into 5/4.

Deadline: Monday, April 21, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0694

Disquiet Junto Project 0694: 5/4ify

More on the 694th weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5/4ify — The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0694/

The original track can be found here [ https://soundcloud.com/xiiixxi/angelfish-or-unicorn?si=f9729764e685412aad5efce4e494ff09&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing ]

Disquiet Junto | 5/4ify - disquiet0694

Disquiet Junto Project 0694: 5/4ify
The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music.

I took this track of mine, released in 2023, and worked through it, editing every sequence / loop so it was in 5/4. I then sped up the tempo so the track is the original length. 

The most interesting thing to me is how similar it feels! I guess a bunch of the rhythmic stuff is fairly similar.

https://cudighirecords.bandcamp.com/track/ferry-crossing

More on the 694th weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5/4ify — The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0694/

Jet Jaguar - Five Four Ferry Crossing [disquiet0694]

Conceptual, feminist, noisy, terrifying. You probably don't want to listen to it. It could be the exit music for a Dario Argento remake of The Shining.

Disquiet Junto prompt 0694 suggested taking a song that is in 4/4 and adding a beat per measure (5/4).  I knew right off the bat that I wanted to do a glitchy sample thing, so I went diving into the Internet Archive for popular music from before 1926. I came across a really nicely cleaned up 1919 recording of Irving Berlin’s “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” sung by John Steel.

The rest just came out like that and it seemed right. It feels like a response to the notion that pretty girls have to be melodic, because we can be noisy and no less pretty for it. So I channeled some punk feminist energy and created a lot of chaos. But I swear, it’s 5/4 under there.

More on the 694th weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5/4ify — The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0694/

Like a Melody (disquiet0694)

i like how this came out, and plan to integrate it into my slowly expanding project at https://museumofhistoricalmaterials.bandcamp.com

a frantic 5/4 reworking of a 4/4 track i've been working on this week. mellotron via m-tron pro iv. blackhole immersive, ds tantra 2 and imagiro autochroma pad things out in the return channels. at 30s, an ableton percussion rack (EFX Small Cymbals) starts playing out a morse code message: "kaufmann, you scumbag".

More on the 694th weekly Disquiet Junto project, 5/4ify — The Assignment: Add a 5/4 beat to a pre-existing piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0694/

[disquiet0694] kaufmann in 5/4

Uploaded as part of the disquiet junto 0694

"The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music.

There is just one step to this project: Take a pre-existing piece of music that is in 4/4 — either your own or something in the public domain — and add a beat to each measure, transforming it into 5/4."

The song I added a beat to was a version of All The Way - Julie Stapleton feat Ashaye https://v4visions.bandcamp.com/track/all-the-way-feat-ashaye that I chopped and screwed a bit

5/4ify (disquiet0694)

mdh