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Mess-y vs. tidy sounds!
Order / Disorder
Order and Disorder are words that describe an amount of organisation. An ordered environment is neatly organised (think for example of a musical piece by Bach), while a disordered environment is chaotic and messy (think of a piece of noise music by Merzbow).
From Disorder to Order
This is the opening section of But The Kitchen Sink... by Duncan Chapman. Listen to how the chaos and disorder of many sounds gives way to the much more ordered drone tone.
Levels of Order
Moving from organisation to mess, and the reverse, from mess to organisation can be a really useful tools in composition.
Even our own ears make this transition through something called the ‘cocktail party effect’.
Think about being in a really busy space with lots of people chattering (perhaps the playground at lunchtime break or the school corridors on the way between lessons), even though these are really busy and disordered environments we are still able to hold our own individual conversations with our friends.
This is because our ears tune out the background noise and focus only on the sounds that we are interested in (the sounds of our friends). In this way, our ears change what we hear, from disorder to order.
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Order and Attention
Order and disorder can be really useful in focussing our attention on specific sounds almost as if we were zooming in to them (just as the cocktail party effect works, we can create a busy disordered soundscape and then gradually move to a organised environment containing the sounds that we want listeners to focus on).
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Order and Disorder are tools used in the works of many composers: Xenakis, Ligeti.
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