(pulls out trumpet)
My own Solenoid track "Pillow Speaker" on the Emanated compilation
(www.syncopated.net/emanate) is in straight 6/4 throughout, not even an
underlying 4/4 there, actually, and not waltzy or 3/4 in disguise. It is
liberating to work in time sigs like that as I've found my tracks feel
free of genre-clinging ...except maybe jazz, but the instrumentation is
so much more alien
(puts trumpet away)
There is a lot of non 4/4 out there (some that works well, too!) and I've
noticed that a lot of them seem to end up on full-length releases moreso
than 12"s
Solenoid
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, lazlo wrote:
quoted 22 lines Amon Tobin did a rabid 5/4 cut on Permutation, "Sordid." Blame's "360> Amon Tobin did a rabid 5/4 cut on Permutation, "Sordid." Blame's "360
> Click" is in 7/8, and then there's Laika (who don't really fall into this
> group of musicians)--they're infamous for going against 4/4.
>
> As for Autechre, they experimented with "no repetitive beats" on "Flutter"
> in 1994 as a means of protest against the CJB. Weird fun shit that
> actually mixed well into Warp's "Blech" comp.
>
> They're rare, but not impossible to find. The further people dig into jazz
> roots, the more you'll begin to see it on the scene.
>
> laz
>
> Tomas Jirku wrote:
>
> > how rare is a non-4/4 time signature in IDM/techno? if anyone knows of
> > any songs with odd time signatures, please tell!
> > i would think autechre would experiment in this area but i can't recall
> > if any of their songs do deviate from 4/4.
> >
> > tomas
>