Democracy
in Music

Imagine sitting down at a digital piano. You cannot play it alone — it only works if two or more people play it. It scales to the tens of thousands of simultaneous players.

In Mean, you play a note and hear the average of everyone’s choices. You play C4 and someone else plays G4, but you both hear E4 — the note right between. In Mode, the most popular note wins. Adjust the threshold and you move from melody into harmony. From first-past-the-post to proportional representation.

Now move from a keyboard to a canvas. You place a single touch on a shared surface. Where you touch determines pitch. Where others touch builds density. Overlapping choices become peaks in a 3D landscape — a topography of collective preference that can be turned into sound.