Emergent ‘Ave Maria’

Here is a practical problem for all interested in artificial societies, cellular automata and agent simulations. How many professional singers should sit there among the spectators and how should they be distributed so that the whole audience could produce a nice and clean ‘Ave Maria’ thanks to the social influence (G. Tarde would say ‘imitation’) processes?:

Following the link bellow you will see Bobby McFerrin replicating the above experiment with a different set of subjects:

+ Ave Maria at Swinging Bach Concert

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