31 Weekly Beats 2024 The Scraps

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]

I could not find any existing tracks that had a straight 4/4 so instead I created a simple 4 beat sequence on the Buchla 100 I recently built. This occupies the first minute of the track, with little augmentations here and there. After the one minute mark, a 5th beat comes in, again with augmentations here and there by way of the dual attack generator. After a while, the "sleepwalker" patch on the Zoia kicks in, which eventually renders the track into an ambient wash. Throughout , the Space D plug in for Logic is used to add, well, space. And there is my usual trick of panning.... 

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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)

[Disquiet Junto 0694] Whiskey In A Glowstick (In 5/4)

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)

Bach's well-known composition with an extra beat to every bar, then a touch of detuning, delay and reverb added. The source is a 1928 recording by the Rosé Quartet downloaded from the Internet Archive.

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/

Airy on the G String (disquiet0694)

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/

5:4 My Wave (disquiet0694)

Edited, mixed & mastered on 18 Apr 2025 between 8-10pm by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synth & effects

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 01 Sep 2001, Huntington Station, NY, USA. 

©2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “Beat On My Pumpkin” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0694: 5/4ify. The Assignment: Add a beat to a pre-existing piece of music.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

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/

Beat On My Pumpkin (disquiet0694)

Forget and rejoice (disquiet0694)

What's the last thing the drummer said before being kicked out of the band?

"Let's try playing one of my songs."

Here are my songs.

31 Weekly Beats 2024 The Scraps

John Wright