2.7 * 10 ^ (-107)
Lottery Machine
Piano
Photography documentation based
Variable size
2020.04
Is absolute randomness existing? Coin flipping is not random because the result is affected by other external conditions such as mechanics. The computer cannot create absolute randomness because it cannot escape the shackles of the algorithm. If we assume that absolute randomness exists, rather than that currently unknown nature laws cause the randomness, then lottery machine and dice, this kind of random artifacts can get the closest to the absolute randomness.
As Duchamp said, pure randomness is interesting because it is opposed to logical reality. Different people cause different randomness, just like the dice you throw, and the dice I throw is entirely different. This is a very beautiful phenomenon because it is like a mystery that no one knows the answer. When you have a result on a dice, why is that number? Nobody knows. It is the same that when you get a number ball with a lottery machine, you cannot understand why is this number ball.
The odds of one number ball in the lottery machine is 1/75. But if you use 75 number balls one by one and get a sequence, the odds of this sequence is: 1/75 * 1/74 * 1/73 * 1/72 ... 1/5 * 1/4 * 1/3 * 1 / 2 * 1 = 2.7 * 10 ^ (-107), which is very close to 0. In this work, I correspond each ball to a music note and use the obtained sequence to get a random piece of music. Also, the odds of the music score is 2.7 * 10 ^ (-107), almost 0. It is such a small chance, but it happens right under your nose. This coincidence with the opposite of logical reality is very beautiful and subtle.
Different people cause different chances. It is only possible with the odds of 2.7 * 10 ^ (-107) that two people have the same music score, almost impossible. In this case, if the audience can shake the lottery machine to get their sequence and music, this piece of music is 100% belongs to him/her due to the absolute randomness and the 2.7 * 10 ^ (-107). Although I have n’t executed this idea yet, please imagine a lottery machine that each number balls are drawn automatically rolls off and strikes the corresponding note. The audience can hear the music composed by their own random sequence while shaking the lottery machine. This is the randomness that we cannot understand, just as we cannot understand life and death.
