Repetition in Music

Anonymous · 2014-03-12T12:16:51-04:00

Flipping through my daily news and culture readings, I came across this article describing various implementations of repetition and studies indicating that repetition responds better with the human mind in a variety of ways: http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/why-we-love-repetition-in-music/ I thought this excerpt was especially interesting: Can music exist without repetition? Well, music is not a natural object and composers are free to flout any tendency that it seems to exhibit. Indeed, over the past century, a number of composers expressly began to avoid repetitiveness in their work. In a recent study at the Music Cognition lab, we played people samples of this sort of music, written by such renowned 20th-century composers as Luciano Berio and Elliott Carter. Unbeknownst to the participants, some of these samples had been digitally altered. Segments of these excerpts, chosen only for convenience and not for aesthetic effect, had been extracted and reinserted. These altered excerpts differed from the original excerpts only in that they featured repetition. The altered excerpts should have been fairly cringeworthy; after all, the originals were written by some of the most celebrated composers of recent times, and the altered versions were spliced together without regard to aesthetic effect. But listeners in the study consistently rated the altered excerpts as more enjoyable, more interesting, and – most tellingly – more likely to have been composed by a human artist rather than randomly generated by a computer. The listeners in the study were college undergraduates with no special training or experience in contemporary art music. Thoughts?

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Interesting this topic should come up now, a lot of what I've been enjoying lately is heavily reliant on repetition and slow progression. Colin Stetson, Nils Frahm, even Swans...I guess for me it's more that what Im doing at work is basically repeating the same task over and over so I need something that can lull me into a state where I'm comfortable with 🧱

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