From: Musical beauty and information compression: Complex to the ear but simple to the mind?
REGULARITY (COMPRESSIBILITY) | MUSIC | VISUAL ARTS | POETRY | EMOTIONAL RESPONSE |
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HIGHLY REGULAR (trivial compression) | Repeated notes, simple ascending scales | Simple geometric shapes | Limericks, nursery rhymes (anapaestic tetrameter)* | Indifference, boredom (irritation?) |
EDGE OF REGULARITY (challenging compression) | Beethoven (Classical) | Picasso (Classicism, Surrealism, Cubism) | Shakespeare (Iambic pentameter) | Pleasure |
EDGE OF CHAOS (very challenging compression) | Duke Ellington (Jazz) | Jackson Pollack (Abstract expressionism) | Robert Louis Stevenson (Free verse) | Pleasure |
CHAOTIC (impossible compression) | Noise | Random splashes of paint | Random letter/word generator | Indifference, boredom (irritation?) |