Beauty opioids

How can I cook some extremely addictive and pleasurable visual arts?

I have been pondering this lately because, as any honest music producer will admit, I want people to check out my music. However, in a world where everyone is vying for attention, you gotta offer people a powerful hit to succeed. So for promo material, I need to have some good shit. Some artistic opioids, preferably.

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 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. Of course, it is well known that audioreactive visuals are satisfying. You don’t need any fancy ideas to know that. But I rarely see audioreactivity taken to the level that I think the medium has potential for. So I decided to try my hand at creating satisfying eye-catching audioreactive art to go with my music. I added a three snippets below. Judge the results for yourself. Warning: flashing lights.

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