i also had to learn the necessity of repetition -- spending too much time with your material and wanting to jump to new ideas while your first-time listener hasn't yet absorbed the old ones seems like an error mode easy to fall into. the point about conservation of complexity is also excellent -- textural complexity indeed does not go well with melodic/narrative complexity, so some trade-offs must be made. and thanks for the shoutout!
Yeah, the repetition thing is a lesson probably many of us learned the hard way, at least those who don’t write more standard forms where repetition is built in, ala verse chorus
i also had to learn the necessity of repetition -- spending too much time with your material and wanting to jump to new ideas while your first-time listener hasn't yet absorbed the old ones seems like an error mode easy to fall into. the point about conservation of complexity is also excellent -- textural complexity indeed does not go well with melodic/narrative complexity, so some trade-offs must be made. and thanks for the shoutout!
I much enjoyed your piece!
Yeah, the repetition thing is a lesson probably many of us learned the hard way, at least those who don’t write more standard forms where repetition is built in, ala verse chorus