alt Hacker News> You can treat music as information. If it's not information, it's just noise.
In information theory we have:
A message has maximal information content if (and only if) its symbols are statistically indistinguishable from random noise.
Noise or noise-like elements are also important part of many kinds of music.
This is why a better acronym for IDM is Information Dense Music, it's less pretentious and it explains why it's very close to noise ;)
Of course, I'd argue Bach and Debussy are very information-dense too but they somehow manage to stay uncluttered. The really great thing about music is that encodes information on many different levels, Claude Shannon notwithstanding