The Junto assignment this week is to "Record a piece of music in 29/16 time."
It was about six months ago that I was talking with my son Oscar about how much I enjoy using strange time signatures as a prompt.
He started to talk about a Mother videogame, which is one that he's often discussed, explaining there's a penultimate level where the music is in 29/16.
I thought it sounded wild, so I played around and wrote some songs in Live using this time signature.
Then I told Marc that I thought it would be a fun prompt for the Junto.
This week he came back to me and, as Oscar is home from uni for the holidays, I got him to look at the wording and we added the detail about the name of the original tune in Mother 3.
Last night I began composing with the time signature and came up with a couple of ideas.
I might get back to working on the other, but thought I'd publish this one in the mean time.
Unfortunately I still have uni homework to complete.