Repetitions of form and colour within a painting can also guide
us through the picture and can subtly create a pleasant rhythm...
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 While
at first there appears to be no basic pattern, on closer inspection
a repetition of lines and shapes can be discerned. It is clear
that the still life in the foreground and the figures in the background
form two pyramids. But the small pyramid on the right in the foreground,
containing a hen with its chicks, plays a significant role in
the composition as well. Together, these three elements create
a sense of rhythm while at the same time forming a large triangle
that serves as the pattern for the composition as a whole.
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| Visual Design
Repetition is one of the most important devices in pictorial composition.
It is fundamental to establishing a pictorial world or environment
that feels whole and complete to the viewer.
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Music:
In most music, time measurement is based on the principle of
repetition of beats following a particular pattern. Indian classical
music is based largely on this same principle, except that there
are underlying complexities to the patterns |
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| The Art of Repetition in Electronic
Music:
To understand repetition in techno music you must first understand
everything you hear at a magnified level. All sounds that are
processed naturally in your brain are held at face value. The
car passing you on the street, the wind as it blows through the
trees, and so on, are all rich with musical content. If you take
these sounds and magnify them, or shall I say, cut them up so
that you have small pieces of the entire sound, and align these
pieces together on a musical scale, you create repetition that
when layered and manipulated create a whole new realm of possible
sound and textures for music.
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Music:
In music, transformations are accomplished through
"figures of speech" and similar devices: thesis and
antithesis, opposition of consonance and dissonance, imitation,
alliteration, varieties of rhythms, harmonic progressions, symmetry
and repetitions. Symmetry and repetition occupy a special
place. When we listen to music we are primed to expect
balance, symmetry and repetition. Violations of expectations and
violations of symmetry becomes the source of excitement that music
evokes.
June Hadley (1989), a neurobiologist, found
that primarily we are neurologically programmed to seek repetition
and the novel.....
...But repetition in music introduces a sense of time,
in some ways real time. Like the ticking of a clock, repetition
contains, moves, and frames the listening experience.
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