> Music that is predictable is boring. Or music you've listened to a lot and have learned to predict.
You just haven't learned to pay proper attention. I can listen to the same piece of music over and over and over again and not get bored. I stop usually not because I'm bored of it, but because I've had my fill of that kind of experience at that time. I might return to listening to that piece later. The piece falls into a 'rut' in my head and becomes a platform on which I can have all kinds of related thoughts and experiences.
When I'm of a mind to do so, I might listen to a particular piece of music hundreds of times over the course of a week or two.
Here is an article that describes a similar kind of practice:
You can make something that has previously been salient become yet more salient by noticing more in it; the two of you are not necessarily disagreeing.
You just haven't learned to pay proper attention. I can listen to the same piece of music over and over and over again and not get bored. I stop usually not because I'm bored of it, but because I've had my fill of that kind of experience at that time. I might return to listening to that piece later. The piece falls into a 'rut' in my head and becomes a platform on which I can have all kinds of related thoughts and experiences.
When I'm of a mind to do so, I might listen to a particular piece of music hundreds of times over the course of a week or two.
Here is an article that describes a similar kind of practice:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/centireading-fo...
Just because you can predict what's happening next doesn't make it boring. You just chose to make it boring.