Beyond the Quintessential Quincunx

[2016]

for bass clarinet, violin, acoustic guitar, sound objects

duration: 6 min

first performance: 31 March, 2016; Curious Chamber Players; Århus, Denmark

score published by BabelScores

(most recent version: 1.00)

Quincunx is a device invented by Francis Galton to illustrate the binomial distribution and the central limit theorem (CLT) for Bernoulli random variables.

Galtons balancing Quincunx Figure1 from Galton 1877 with slight modifications