So the Disquiet Junto assignment this week was simply to make a piece of music in 29/16 time. This is a super weird time signature. I remembered fooling about with Dilla-type beats using quintuplets (where you count 5s between every beat) and I figured exploring groups of 5 16ths might be worth it. It's a strange feeling to try and take a very mathsy approach, like fitting beats tightly on a fixed grid of 29 steps, and try to replicate some kind of "real" shuffle.

In the second half of the track I use this sample pack from Freesound. A Korean instrument that sounds like a koto. https://freesound.org/people/spt3125/packs/1534/

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Jet Jaguar - Kāo [disquiet0664] (free download)

This week's Disquiet Junto project inspired me to create a track with a 29/16 time signature. It evolved in a creative flow, inspiration guiding me to add the different elements without any preconceived ideas.

Twin primes are primes separated by only one even number, like 29 and 31. And the twin prime conjecture postulates that there are infinite twin primes. For me this is a romantic concept...

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Twin Prime Conjecture (Disquiet0664)

If it's in 29/16, it has to be Indian, doesn't it? (Doesn't it?🤔)
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Disquiet0664 Raag Todi thaat??

Disquiet0664 - Raag Todi Thaat??

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29/16 (disquiet0664)

Playing with a 29/16 time signature.
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prime time (disquiet0664)

After setting up the sequencers, synth patches etc, 
This was recorded in one take in AUM on iPad Pro

Sequencers used: 
4Pockets Euclidean Sequencer - generated 4 midi sequences all 29/16 but some staggered and different rates and directions.
K Devices TATAT  - generated another 29/16 sequence with added probability modulation.
Synths used: 
2 instances of Virsyn’s Tera Pro 
Audiokit Nerd
Moog Model 15
AudioDamage Continua

FX
Quantovox Spatializer
Quantovox True Pan
Surreal Machines Modnetic
Caelum Audio Dustbin
Fred Anton Corvest Alteza
Eventide Blackhole
Igor Vasiliev AltiSpace 2


Permanent locations

https://id23.bandcamp.com/track/xxix-xvi

https://hearthis.at/id23/xxix-xvi-77-bpm-003-disquiet0664-converted/


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XXIX - XVI - 77 Bpm - 003  Disquiet0664

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

set my keystep pro sequence length to 29 steps and it was all downhill from there. pretty straightforward dub techno ish patch on the modular system

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disquiet0664 - 二十九ダブ

[disquiet0664] Oh Mother

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

The main part of the piece consists of 4 x 7 beats, with an extra one at the end of each cycle, to make 28 + 1 = 29. 
I guess it’s really more 29 1/8th notes than 1/16th notes, but well… artistic license, I suppose.

I tried a bunch of things before settling on the groupings of 7:  3 x 3 x 3 + 2, as well as 6 x 5 - 1. But nothing turned up that felt like it made sense… nothing grooved.
With the 4 x 7 +1 I think the fact that it’s 4 measures, helps to guide the ear towards perceiving some sort of groove. Also, playing the 7 beats with a 4 + 3 feel, made the end of the cycle (with the extra beat) feel like a bit of 4 + 4. 
A bit of sleight of hand… but then, a lot of things in music have an element of sleight of hand: tempo changes, key changes, secondary dominants, to name a few.

One of the 6 x 5 - 1 bits that I experimented with had a somewhat similar pattern as the 7 x 4 + 1, so I added a section that has both ways of doing 29 beats playing simultaneously: the synth continuing the 4 x 7 +1 while the piano does a few rounds of 6 x 5 and then a transition to wrap things up that makes the whole thing match up again. The idea was that as a listener you could switch between your attention between the two ways of playing a sequence of 29 beats. It doesn’t really work that way in practice: the 5 beat motifs are just too dominant. But a fun experiment none the less.

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Disquiet Junto

Mother Beat (disquiet0664)

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Masked Cans (disquiet0664)

Releasing tunes under this name since 1996.

8 albums & 12 EPs as Jet Jaguar, as well as releases with Takamu, Tonkyn Pearson (fka Montano), Malty Media, Datsun Stereo, Patio and The Dub Connection.

I also try and pull together stuff from New Zealand you might like if you say you like ambient music. https://ambientnz.com

You can find a lot of free music that's not on here via my Bandcamp or website.

During the early 1990s I studied Mathematics and Computer Science. The world wide web was still largely text-based and mostly empty. Today things are obviously different, though I still thoroughly enjoy art, design, cinema and music in all its forms. I have traveled all over the world for nearly two decades, visiting just over 140 countries. Japan is my favorite. All of this I attempt to incorporate into my music and art.

Assorted dark/ambient sound collages and experimental noisescapes /jams  - 
iOS and hardware - influences and inspiration include field recordings, sound design, electro/mechanical and natural ambient/drone textures and consequently my audio experiments often contain elements of these.
I am a digital artist and photographer with an honours degree in fine & applied art,  

Thanks for visiting my page...
new projects here: https://soundcloud.com/idxxiii
@jonas_lark @jak_larson

There was a time when I was involved in Science! But that was a mistake. My Passion is music. I play the pipe-organ and synthesizer, I play the organ in a few bands and I like Apple computers. I discovered SuperCollider and VCV Rack: great ways of making sounds. Enjoy them on SoundCloud!

RabMusicLab produces instrumental music of various genres from classical to electronic without shying away from excursions into pop or experimental music. The tracks are published for the pleasure, entertainment and inspiration of every listener.

RabMusicLab loves to participate in the Disquiet Junto Projects of https://soundcloud.com/disquiet to fuel his creativity . All tracks that have "disquiet" in the title were created as response to these projects. Further informations can be found in the respective track-information,

All images used are photographs by RabMusicLab, unless otherwise indicated in the track-informations.

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