Amazingly enough they don't. All the pieces are going to sound similar simply because he's using a mathatical system with only a few variables, however, if you listen you can pick out changing nuances. It's pretty interesting especially if you've ever done any kind of work with maths and music. Bands like Plaid and Boards of Canada do a lot of it and it always has a very weird ability to strike resonance in your mind, especially if you are stoned. It always amazes me the subconcious mathmatics involved in listening to music, especially music based around logarithmic scales. I think it comes down to the way the brain interprets symbols. Notes consist of changes in pitch on a scale, because this change is regular (in theory, not on an actual real instrument) virtually any continous scale can be applied. This means that you can use a series of musical notes to show a changing state, a slightly longwinded way of showing an equation (equations describe the function required to change between state A and State B). Because the brain can absorb and pick out a massive number of changes in even a very densely packed piece of music, it's possible to hotwire directly mathmatical sequences into the subconcious. This is why you should play baby's especially still in the womb music which uses mathmatical sequences, it creates pathways that will be later used. The brain is 'forced' to analyse the changes because that's what the subconcious does.
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