Static vs Dynamic elements of music

i happens to ponder about what i like about certain elements in songs i hear and like. What happens to inspire me or keeps me interested.

Static and dynamic elements of music is for me very important tools, which drives and elevates music to help you enjoy aspects of music more, the combination of the two "forces" of music, helps music to my ears to be more apreciated, interesting, and impressive (maybe).

I was in many years obsessed by the concept of dynamic being taken over by climatic endings or parts, the loosing up of dynamic to the free flow of climatic chaos, like and you and I by yes, the midel part section is a climatic less dynamic then the verse part, wcich is a dynamic groove, the midle sections looses up the dynamic groove, eases up the flow of the music, elevates the music.

then i noticed, there has to be a static element in music, monotonus or monorythmic, monomethric , to songs, like the morse sign like rythem of Watcher in the Sky by Genesis,  serves more as a static part then a dynamic, as it is a single note repeatd in a metric form, metric pattern, (time signature). the Apocalypse in 9/8 is a fine example of static and dynamic coexisting in cooperating to give the section its feel, keep it static and dark, yet dynamic and forcefull

I am not addept in music theory or therminology, i describe things more like in the ways of how musicles in the body works, dynamic musicle training and static musicle traning, tension versus movement.

I think there are certain elements in music which i tend to be pulled towards and as a bass player have interest in understanding as a part of bands, to understand sustain, dynamic, static, mute, loud, silence, ghosting, drive, evertything to enhance the note, the groove, the feel and flow of sound waves to struck the listner as forcefull, as hypnotising, as numbening and as tentelizing as possible. I want to paralaize the listner numb with my bass notes


Edited by aginor - July 10 2013 at 06:18

Much listening can be compared to a guessing game: if the listener get's his predictions mostly right about what comes next, the music will be deemed too predictable and he'll get bored and switch off. If the listener seldom if ever get's his predictions right, he will deem the music too random or chaotic, get bored and switch off. The music that satisfies you most will fall somewhere between these two extremes.