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Re:Repetition Makes Music Beautiful [video] by thecupisblue on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:09AM (#21627369)
> It's not repetition, it's the deliberate creation of a comprehensible perceptual model which lives in the sweet spot between trivial prediction and surprise

Exactly!

The sweet spot between repetition and non-repetition - I cal it evolving repetition (same base but minor different touches or changes that evolve the pattern over time) and having different layers doing it - keeps the listener intrigued instead of bored, still keeping the predictability but giving the element of surprise.

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Re:Repetition Makes Music Beautiful [video] by degski on Monday November 25, 2019 @08:50AM (#21628067)
> I cal it evolving repetition ...

In EDM you would use the word 'progressive' [house|trance].

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Re:Repetition Makes Music Beautiful [video] by thecupisblue on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:56AM (#21628604)
Well, the use of `progressive` depends on the surrounding context - is it progressive in terms of genre progress or progressive as in the track scope? But yeah, as I understand, you're aiming at the second context - which is pretty much to what I'm aiming at, but with less explicit emphasis on progression itself.
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