286 - Music and Pattern (Royal Northern College of Music Q&A)
The Symbolic World
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The Desire to Free Ourself From the Pattern
In the modern world, this desire to free ourselves from the pattern has led to things that are so abhorrent and absurd. In some ways, it's as if some of the modern, I think some of the experimental music, in some ways,It actually reveals the pattern. You could destroy someone's hearing if you don't pay attention to these patterns. And then there is a certain level of variation, which people find pleasant. They're probably derived from our thousands and thousands and millions of years of hearing human intonation.
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