'...At the other end of the scale, repetition
became a preoccupation of some composers. Soft Machine performed a particularly
repetitious piece entitled 'We Did It Again', which deliberately set out
to be boring because, according to organist Mike Ratledge:
'If you find something
boring, a basic Zen concept, then in the end you find it interesting. If
you listen to something repeated in the same way your mind changes the
structure of it each time."
This idea was taken up by Mike Oldfield
in the repetitive layers of
Tubular Bells...'