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Prof. Dr. Bernd Herzogenrath
The Future of [American] Music
02 February 2022
William Basinski’s DP3
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Basinski’s DP3 is so relaxing it made me fall asleep in class.
It was a very rough day for me, but his music still managed to calm me down. I
am listening to the piece for the second time while I am writing this response
paper and I feel the same initial calming effect. It is almost hypnotizing and
has a very zen vibe. I could definitely imagine this kind of music being played
in a yoga studio or a rehabilitation center.
The piece is
also very haunting. The longer you listen to it, the more depth it seems to
possess. For me, the music resembled the circle of life. It can be beautiful
and haunting, happy and sad, light and dark but it keeps going. Life is similar
to the repetitive loops in the music because everything is in constant motion
all the time. I also noticed occasional static noises in the piece. These
glitches of harmony are another layer to the symbolism of life. The glitches do
not stop the music or lessen its beauty; They are an essential part of the
music that makes it special and unique.
Forty minutes of
listening to Basinski made me visit interesting psychological parts of my
brain. It definitely facilitated deep thoughts and self reflection. It also
helped me wander to a very philosophical arch. If this music is perceived in my
brain as a bunch of paradoxes and it extremely symbolizes life then the beauty
or ugliness of the world is purely a perception issue because both of these
parts of the world are tightly intertwined with one another. There is beauty
everywhere in this world, you just have to be willing to see it.
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