"Why are some musical pieces more interesting or aesthetically rewarding than others? Not the one the listener (composer) just heard (played) fifty times in a row without any noticable change. It became too subjectively predictable in the process. Not the weird one with completely unfamiliar rhythm and tonality. It seems too irregular and contain too much arbitrariness and subjective noise. The observer (creator) of the data is interested in melodies that are unfamiliar enough to contain somewhat unexpected harmonies or beats etc., but familiar enough to allow for quickly recognizing the presence of a new learnable regularity or compressibility in the sound stream: a novel pattern!" -- Formal Theory of Creativity & Fun & Intrinsic Motivation (1990-2010) by Jürgen Schmidhuber
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:01:52 +0000
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