I began to look into muscial repetition to slot into the dissertation but then backed off because I realised it was way way too complex a subject to dip into lightly, BUT I came across this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8v-uDhcDyg Symphony for 100 Metronomes by Gyorgy Ligeti. For me this is the perfect sound equivalent to much of my work. The metronomes all start at the same time – the chairs are all there then the eye begins to move round and round looking for a pattern, which does not exist – the metronomes tick and tick and tick and one strains to pick out a rhythm which never comes. And then for one brief shining moment a rhythm appears, and then it is gone. I love it.
October 7, 2008...10:42 am
Musical repetition
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October 9, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Love this piece – especially the fact that they are set to different times so don’t move in unison. But what I would like to know is how they get then to all start together?
October 9, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Now they have worked out how to set them all off with an electrical charge. I think before they were all done by hand.
October 9, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Ah!