Domain Inequality

It's easier to get away with something that looks bad or wrong than it is with something that sounds out-of-tune or out-of-time or otherwise sounds wrong. It's more difficult to be sly with irony in music. Abstract Expressionism sometimes gets conflated with the freedom in jazz, when in fact jazz improvisation can have all kinds of rules and constraints. Jackson Pollock paintings had the primary constraint of avoiding representation, but jazz can't avoid melody, even if dissonant.