Man, that last post o’ mine, an unrestrained appreciation for repetition and dynamics in music, was a bit of a track wreck prose-wise, as reasonable readers might agree. Actually, reasonable readers probably scrolled through the length of the entry and decided clicking through the audio clips distributed throughout the post was the best idea, which it was. If the saying “To become a master, you have to make 10,000 mistakes” is true, that last post was a mighty leap for me towards mastery.
I’m going to venture once more into the previous post’s subject, but only because I came up with a couple excellent and obvious examples of repetition in songs that weren’t included with the last deluge. Heck, one of these examples even comes from a song that was already sampled during the first post.
Both of these examples are notable for a very simple reason: they repeat something over and over and over again, increasing the intensity of the repetition, iterating up until the breaking point. To start, here’s the last 2:30 of weekly favorite Frost*’s Experiments in Mass Appeal, a swell bit of music:
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Listening to that full song over the past week reminded me of the tail end of Sufjan Stevens’ Star of Wonder, over three minutes of over-and-over-and-over-again, and is this:
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To close, if you haven’t figured out by now that I like repetition in my music, you’re probably better off.
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