Sylabus

Meeting 1: Toys, Plays and Games
Affordances and Toys
Babbling, Enactment and Playing
Schemata and Expectations
Improvisation vs. Composition
Social / Collective aspects of music
How games describe collaboration
Musical Examples:
Mozart Dice Game, Lexicon Sonata
Trevor Wishart: Music Games
Conducted Improvisation
Walter Thompson: Sound Painting

Meeting 2: Playing games
Ballon Game – Cristyn
Computer Sound Game

Meeting 3:
Slot Machines and Memex Music
Psychology of prospect
Introduction to formal game theory
Xenaks
Evolutionary games
Game as a tool to understand music
Introduction to Cobra

Meeting 4: Game Pieces
John Zorn’s Cobra and other Game Pieces