286 - Music and Pattern (Royal Northern College of Music Q&A)
The Symbolic World
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The Relationship Between Archetypal Patterns and Fractals
I think the best way to understand some other patterns is fractals, that's for sure. My brother wrote a book called The Language of Creation, which goes more into it in almost like a mathematical way,. But that is really the way to understand order. And what fractals do in terms of symbolism is that in some ways, you basically have one pattern, which is like one in many, like that's, that's the pattern. I'm not an expert on music, but I think that's definitely true about music too. It can also become trance-like, where you just keep repeating the same, the same melody over and over.
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