Time Signatures

While most music will work perfectly in 4/4, some require odd time shenanigans. 65daysofstatic's musicians love using these devices to create noise.

Time signature notation is made of two numbers: the first is the number of beats in a bar (i.e. the song's pattern) and the second one is the note value (how long the note resonates). In other words, the first number is used to count the beat, while the second one gives an idea of how fast these counted notes are played (not to be confused with BPM).

Compiled below is a list of interesting time signatures found throughout the band's recordings.

## Stumble.Stop.Repeat

### Thrash Waltz

You can probably guess this one from the name.

## The Fall Of Math

### I Swallowed Hard, Like I Understood

The song starts in 5/4. It then cleverly switched to one bar of 6/4 followed by one of 5/4, thus echoing the band's name as a signature.

## One Time For All Time

### Await Rescue

This song switches to 7/8 during the bridge just to make it even harder to cover for poor 65kids.

## The Destruction Of Small Ideas

### Don't Go Down To Sorrow

This song features 3/4 but shifts to 5/4 for the second segment (starting at 3:45).

### Wax Futures

This song features polyrhythms around 6/8 time.

### Primer

This song has a combination of 5/8 and 18/8 (5+5+5+3), with a finale cycling through 5/8, 4/8 and 3/8.

### The Conspiracy Of Seeds

This song is a fiesta of odd time signatures. Counting them is above this page admin's paygrade. Unconfirmed rumours suggest it's mostly in 14+16+14+12/8, with brief interludes of 8/8 (with the guitar playing 3+3+2) and 11/8 (with the guitar playing 3+3+3+2) part way through.

## We Were Exploding Anyway

### Mountainhead

This song appears to feature a combination of sections in 17/8 (intro, outro, and a short section ~1/3 of the way through), alternating measures of 17/8 and 16/8 (following the intro), and straight 16/8 in the remainder. The 16/8 sections can be heard as groups of 6+6+4.

## Inside

### Inside

This song features a polymeter with a 3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+2/8 piano part over 4 bars of 4/4.

## Silent Running

### The Scattered Disk

This song features 7/8 and plenty of glitches.

## Wild Light

### The Undertow

Part of the song is in 29/8, although it should be subdivided in changing time signatures to make any sense at all. For instance, it could be counted as 7-7-6-6-3.

### Taipei

This song is in 5/4 but initially included a polyrythm with 6/4.

## No Man's Sky: Music For An Infinite Universe

### Blueprint For A Slow Machine

This song features some 5/8, notably during the intro.

## replicr, 2019

### Bad Age

This song starts with a clave-like pattern with 4 steady beats followed by three slower ones and a fast one. It is in 13/8.

## 7over8

The title track has generative melodies in 7/8 running over beats in 8/8.

## Tempo Heavy

### The Back of Things

Starts in 4/4 before surreptitiously moving to 5/4 around half way through.

## Endings

### Mother

This track is based around a percussive loop in 13/8.

## Wreckage Systems

Unsurprisingly, a number of V2 wreckage systems also play with interesting time signatures:

* Like it's namesake from *Tempo Heavy*, "Seed // Back of Things" features 5/4.
* "Pianoblivion" features 5/4.
* "SummsThUnder" also features 5/4. Who would have thought?

## Solo Projects

Paul Wolinski's solo work also features some interesting time signatures. For example:

* "Tangents" from *Labyrinths* is mostly in 5/4 (with a 4/4 section in the middle)
* "Kressyda" from *Labyrinths* is in 15/8
* "AWaltzoflight" from Labyrinths includes sections in 6/8 and 5/8
* "30N" from *Labyrinths* is in 6/4
* "Misericordia" from *Labyrinths* is in 6/4
* "Tremories (Cosmonaut Edit)" from *Labyrinths (Test Edits)* is in 15/8
* "Full Bleed" from *Full Bleed* is in 5/4
* "Replicator" from the *Blood OST* is in 7/4
* "Comotope" from *A Hail of Tiny Cages* is in 7/4.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/65daysofstatic-the-fall-of-math
2. ↑ http://www.thrashhits.com/2014/03/65daysofstatic-the-fall-of-math-ten-years-later-with-paul-wolinski/
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://drownedinsound.com/in\_depth/4146880-dissection--65daysofstatic-wild-light-track-by-track
4. ↑ https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/65daysofstatic/unmake-the-wild-light-bass-2881943
5. ↑ https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/65daysofstatic/trackerplatz-bass-2862290
6. ↑ U/U Vol. 4.7 release notes
7. ↑ U/U Vol. 4.12 release notes