Beauty opioids

How do you cook addictive visual arts?

I don’t know, but I’ve been pondering this lately because I’m a slut and I want people to check out my music. However, in a world where everyone is vying for attention, you need to offer people a powerful hit to catch their eyeballs. So for promo material, it would be good to have opioids.

I have also been thinking about what beauty is lately. As detail in this piece, I think you experience beauty when you encounter sensory signals that are densely packed with patterns that our (subconscious) brain is successfully able to decode and efficiently organize. A naive prediction of this thesis is that audioreactive visuals ought to be satisfying, since now your visual stimuli becomes correlated with the auditory stimuli — it’s a whole new dimension of correlation being added in. So I decided to try my hand at creating music-syncronized audioreactive art: