"Lottery": Toward a Unified Rational Strategy for Cooperative Music-Making

The author describes the theory, design, implementation and performance of his computer-music piece "Lottery." "Lottery" is based on a social model that promotes responsible resource sharing. Performers are temporary members of an evolving microsociety, the behavior of which is c...

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Published in:Leonardo music journal 1992-01, Vol.2 (1), p.3-12
Main Author: Didkovsky, Nick
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artist's Articles
Ballots
Composers
Computer software
Lotteries
MIDI
Music composition
Musical performance
Performing artists
Prisoners dilemma
Waveforms
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Summary:The author describes the theory, design, implementation and performance of his computer-music piece "Lottery." "Lottery" is based on a social model that promotes responsible resource sharing. Performers are temporary members of an evolving microsociety, the behavior of which is closely correlated to audible change. The ideas in "Lottery" were derived from the work of evolutionary biologist Garrett Hardin and computer scientist/theorist Douglas R. Hofstadter.
ISSN:0961-1215
1531-4812
DOI:10.2307/1513202