Information in Music

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Vague Conjecture

Information in music is not objectively measurable. It depends on the listeners ability to recognize patterns and filter out noise.

As an example, you could organize a subset of the electronic music genres in a circle, where information amount is ever increasing, and at the top you would have noise, which has extremely much or little information, depending on the listeners point of view.

                         ___
                   _.---(__ )--.    \
               ,-''      (_/    `--.\
                         (_)     _,,:.

                      noise -.
                 ,-''         `--.
           drill 'n bass,        ambient
               IDM                  \
             /                       \
        breakcore                     \
           ;                       ambient IDM
           |                       (eg. Bola)
        jungle                         ;
            \                         /
             \                       /
              \               downbeat, trip-hop
             breaks               ,'
                 '--.         _.-'
                     `------''

             .-'''
              \`--.             _.-'
               `   `----------''
                  MORE INFORMATION
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