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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

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, 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. Aside from the odd waltz or shuffle beat, I think the main strayings I've heard are by Bedouin Ascent. Most of the stuff I've heard by him is not in 4. The only straying from 4 I've heard by Ae is '777' off the self-titled album. Lo, it appears to be in 7. I think their remix of Lamb's 'Gold' might be considered 6/4 as well, depending on how you want to count it. There's bound to be more, even ignoring skittery time-signature-irrelevant stuff like Oval. Michael ____________________________________________ "His eyes are TV cameras" http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Michael Upton wrote:

quoted 2 lines There's bound to be more, even ignoring skittery

> There's bound to be more, even ignoring skittery > time-signature-irrelevant stuff like Oval.

let's see... the black dog, in both of its incarnations, wrote a number of non-4/4 tracks, main offenders being 7/8, 5/4, 3/8, etc. and hasn't squarepusher written a bunch of super-odd ones, like 9/16, 17/8, etc? * #### a disturbance in a system. #### laerm. @voicenet.com ##:# Denn die einen sind im Dunkeln/Und die andern sind im Licht Und man sieht nur die im Lichte/Die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht icq: 5562209

Excerpts from mail: 28-Feb-99 (idm) odd time signatures by Tomas Jirku@yirku.com

quoted 1 line how rare is a non-4/4 time signature in IDM/techno?

> how rare is a non-4/4 time signature in IDM/techno?

Gerd - Vulcan Princess (Universal Language) That's quite mucked up.... :) Aaron

Michael Upton wrote:

quoted 6 lines The only straying from 4 I've heard by Ae is '777'

> > The only straying from 4 I've heard by Ae is '777' > off the self-titled album. Lo, it appears to be in > 7. I think their remix of Lamb's 'Gold' might be > considered 6/4 as well, depending on how you want > to count it.

cichli is in 10/4, one of the tracks on cichli suite is in 9/4... black dog do stuff in 3/4 every once in a while...