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It's now repetition of short, hot-button, 30-second, 28-second television ads.
Repetition creates pattern.
Well, I feature all those warped things because repetition creates pattern, and it's from a Dionysian perspective.
So religions are cultures of repetition.
We associate repetition with boredom.
Well, most musicologists would argue that repetition is a key aspect of beauty, the idea that we take a melody, a motif, a musical idea, we repeat it, we set up the expectation for repetition, and then we either realize it or we break the repetition.
So if repetition and patterns are key to beauty, then what would the absence of patterns sound like, if we wrote a piece of music that had no repetition whatsoever in it?
Is it possible to write a piece of music that has no repetition whatsoever?
Nobody had ever thought about a repetition, a pattern-free structure before.
So the setting up of this repetition is so important for beauty.
When you're listening to this piece of music, I implore you: try and find some repetition.
The blue bars here are going to be when he used the actual rhetorical device of repetition.
I'm interested in these ideas of repetition.
So if I show you another song off this album, and another, your eyes will easily pick out the use of repetition by the band Nirvana, and in the frequency distribution, the colors, you can see the clean-dirty-clean sound that they are famous for, and here is the entire album as a single visual impression, and I think this impression is pretty powerful.
There's something about the repetition, the constant little dopamine hit of the reveal, that completely hooks them in.
Okay, great, now I can imagine creating all kinds of really horrible single sine wave pieces of music with this, but I'm going to do something that computers are really good at, which is repetition.
The repetition of the same signs, for so long, and at so many sites tells us that the artists were making intentional choices.
Some had infinitely long perimeters, others were objects with no area or volume, all of them created through infinite repetition.
Repetition is a feature that music from cultures around the world tends to share.
So, why does music rely so heavily on repetition?
So, what makes repetition so uniquely prevalent in music?
To investigate, psychologists asked people to listen to musical compositions that avoided exact repetition.
They heard excerpts from these pieces in either their original form, or in a version that had been digitally altered to include repetition.
Musical repetition is deeply compelling.
Repetition connects each bit of music irresistibly to the next bit of music that follows it.
Repetition invites us into music as imagined participants, rather than as passive listeners.
In this way, repetition can open up new worlds of sound not accessible on first hearing.
Repetition gives rise to a kind of orientation to sound that we think of as distinctively musical, where we're listening along with the sound, engaging imaginatively with the note about to happen.
Critics are often embarrassed by music's repetitiveness, finding it childish or regressive, but repetition, far from an embarrassment, is actually a key feature that gives rise to the kind of experience we think about as musical.
Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement, and it helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence.
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