Why do avant-garde/experimental sections exist in pieces of music?

>>74474037
Well I think experimental music and art in general, such as the album in your pic, are good because they are pushing the boundaries of emotional expression; they aren't afraid to show the rawest and darkest sides of the human condition, and they use their art forms as tools to convey that in as strong a way as possible - but it takes time for people to adjust to this, certainly in popular music - it took a long time for melancholy and sadness or really any negative ideas to permeate through popular music, even lyrically, let alone in terms of the compositions themselves, at least in a way that extended beyond a few minor chords as a kind of proxy for sadness or something. I'm generalizing, and I'm sure there are examples to the contrary, but experimental things usually get to the heart of the abstract world of human feeling better than anything else

I think the tolerance to "anti-melodies" and dissonance has a bit of a cultural side to it. Like, a few hundred years ago, something like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpWg_cZkDho

Would probably cause massive upheavel and turn you into a pariah. Nowadays, this level of dissonance and harmonic freedom to let such a chord without resolution is commonplace to many popular music subgenres
I think such albums help expand upon the tools available to other artists and exposing audiences to such techniques

>>74474037
>Is it because artists want their listeners to hear something new and original, regardless of how pleasing to the ear it sounds?
no because the artist does it for himself. not you

>>74474493
>the artist does it for himself. not you
lol

>>74474232
wow, great explanation, thanks.

>>74474493
Idiot.