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Too Clever by Eight and a Half

By sleepside on May 3, 2026 11:44 pm

Alternative Title: You Crunched Those Numbers, Finish What's In Your Mouth

The conceptual hook for this one is that each instrument uses 16 phrases of different length (Phrase 1 = 1 16th note, Phrase 2 = 2 16th notes, etc). This adds up to eight and a half bars of 4/4 (or two groups of 4 + 4 + 4 + 5). I scramble the phrases throughout the song. Does the song rise above the conceptual wankery? You decide!

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Interesting gimmick.  I think it creates a pretty neat result.  It felt like I was able to ride a groove for a bit, but then there was a part in the middle where I kind of felt disoriented, but it was a cool effect. 

Wow that's a real head bender.

I love these kinds of generative concepts because they create really unusual patterns that you would never come up with on your own.

There is a very cool moment around 1:10 where it feels like you can't quite get your footing and then it comes together again.

Wow, this really got my head spinning, very interesting idea! There's definitely a steady pulse, but it's increasingly hard to find any semblance of a real "one" beat. Stuff like this always makes me feel like I'm reliving the experience of listening to music for the first time, where everything sounds amazing and fresh, and the underlying structures are yet to be understood.

With the filtered bass, crunchy chords and chaotic drums in unusual timings, this could probably masquerade as a Deeckzeven track. I love their ability to make super bonkers and interesting music, so I hope you take the comparison as a compliment!

Cosmic Cairns wrote:

Interesting gimmick.  I think it creates a pretty neat result.  It felt like I was able to ride a groove for a bit, but then there was a part in the middle where I kind of felt disoriented, but it was a cool effect.

Thank you! I felt disoriented making it myself. Maybe I can come back to concept or something like it later this year and smooth it out

NickLong wrote:

Wow that's a real head bender.

I love these kinds of generative concepts because they create really unusual patterns that you would never come up with on your own.

There is a very cool moment around 1:10 where it feels like you can't quite get your footing and then it comes together again.

Thank you! When I started writing the base pattern, I was originally going to group it 7/4 + 4/4 + 6/4. This didn't quite work because I made it sound mostly like 4/4, but in that 1:10, I got to have a mini version of that original idea in 17/16.

Dustsucker wrote:

Wow, this really got my head spinning, very interesting idea! There's definitely a steady pulse, but it's increasingly hard to find any semblance of a real "one" beat. Stuff like this always makes me feel like I'm reliving the experience of listening to music for the first time, where everything sounds amazing and fresh, and the underlying structures are yet to be understood.

With the filtered bass, crunchy chords and chaotic drums in unusual timings, this could probably masquerade as a Deeckzeven track. I love their ability to make super bonkers and interesting music, so I hope you take the comparison as a compliment!

Thank you! I do take the comparison as a compliment (and the "feels like listening for the first time" comment!). Deeckzeven is always pushing at the boundaries of rhythm, and he makes it look so easy. My mix is not as clear as his would be, but I'm gonna forgive myself for that

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