Part of The Hunger Games · 5 / 5
Four Notes
The Hunger Games #5. The cultural evolution of a four-note motif, read as a score: 24 singers in a ring, 34 generations. Each singer learns from someone within two seats in the previous generation, usually copying what is most common around them, sometimes a random neighbour, and copies are imperfect: now and then a note slips. The motif is printed in ember, every other phrase in ink, so the score shows lineages spreading, being lost and coming back.