{"id":442,"date":"2011-06-08T06:17:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T06:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/2011\/06\/repetition_is_a_form_of_flattery\/"},"modified":"2011-09-06T16:18:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T20:18:29","slug":"repetition_is_a_form_of_flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2011\/06\/repetition_is_a_form_of_flattery.html","title":{"rendered":"Repetition is a Form of Flattery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 22px 12px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/JAPG.jpg\" alt=\"JAPG.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"112\" \/>Liking the smoked bluefish salad I had at an organically-sourced Brooklyn eatery, I made something like it at home.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for shooting a video last week, I practiced again a piece that I practiced last year for summer concerts, and two years before that to play in Michigan, and thirteen years earlier still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Passing by a store on Broadway that had four identical (mass-produced) lamps hanging in a row, I was prompted to tweet this tweet. &#8220;Repetition gives an appearance of order,&#8221; tweeted I.<\/p>\n<p>Musicians are accustomed to repetition. Even music that isn&#8217;t especially repetitive is subject to considerable repeating in most professional musical lives.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s our practice, a structuring of time. And for the player, a structuring of a life.<\/p>\n<p>The balance between repeating material and exploring the new is struck differently by musicians. Some pianists play a huge number of pieces. Others delve into a few.<\/p>\n<p>How many times did Paderewski perform the &#8220;Moonlight&#8221; Sonata? Or Mick Jagger sing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/(I_Can't_Get_No)_Satisfaction\">&#8220;Satisfaction&#8221;<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtqe.net\/ObliqueStrategies\/OSintro.html\"><em>Oblique Strategies<\/em> of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt<\/a> is: &#8220;Repetition is a form of change.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liking the smoked bluefish salad I had at an organically-sourced Brooklyn eatery, I made something like it at home. In preparation for shooting a video last week, I practiced again a piece that I practiced last year for summer concerts, and two years before that to play in Michigan, and thirteen years earlier still&#8230; Passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,64,66,62,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-brian-eno","9":"tag-mass-production","10":"tag-practicing","11":"tag-repetition","12":"tag-repetitiveness","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}