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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

Queen Mary University of London : A - Electrical and Electronic engineering

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Output 22 of 60 in the submission

Article title

Evolution of Music by Public Choice

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1203182109

Title of journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA

Article number

Volume number

109

Issue number

First page of article

12081

ISSN of journal

0027-8424

Year of publication

2012

URL

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/30/12081

Number of additional authors

Additional information

The work is the first major study on the dynamics of musical evolution. In an Internet experiment (http://DarwinTunes.org) over 20,000 participants voted on musical loops; an algorithm randomly combined the highest-scoring loops producing the next generation. Analysis shows that music with increasing appeal evolved by public selection and that later evolution slowed due to gene transmission infidelity.

The study received media attention internationally (e.g. http://tinyurl.com/DT-ScientificAmerican, http://tinyurl.com/DT-LeMonde, http://tinyurl.com/DT-PublicoPT) and nationally (e.g. http://tinyurl.com/DT-Guardian, http://tinyurl.com/DT-BBCRadio). MacCallum gave an invited Royal Institution talk (http://tinyurl.com/DT-RoyalInstitution). The paper received the 2012 Cozzarelli Prize for scientific excellence and originality (Behavioral and Social Sciences) from the PNAS (http://tinyurl.com/PNAS-CozzarelliPrize).

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract