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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
sound/music does not need to tell a cohesive story. It works on a "lower'" level of the brain, where impulse is generated by experience.
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I agree, humans are pattern seeking animals, and we are also story tellers, so when confronted with film people tend to expect some kind of narrative. With music, these expectations are different, the basic structures and patterns of music (tempo, cadence, timbre, tone) are still present in even the most chaotic experimental music pieces, collages, and soundscapes. The ear intuitively "hears" these underlying structures and is therefore more or less satisfied. Same thing with a painting, it is confined by the parameters of the frame and canvas, so people can begin to more readily identify the patterns. With experimental film? Anything goes, and the expectations towards narrative are harder to spot. People who enjoy more experimental film I think are those who are more easily imaginative and fill in the intellectual gaps without having to be queued..