Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rhythm Science is a print-based multimedia work.Formatted as a book, the work cites on its cover the author Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid.However, the design team COMA has had a major role in shaping the experience Rhythm Science provides.The physical construction itself entices one's imagination in a way reminiscent of LP album covers.The book is printed on two-sided paper (rough/smooth) and is pierced by a hole running through to the last page, where a CD lies waiting for the curious browser.Pages alternate between text and graphic collage, becoming something hybrid in the process.While Miller provides the words, music, and many of the incorporated visuals, the success of the mix is due mainly to COMA's deft visual and tactile manipulations.The volume is printed in brown and green ink, however, full use is made of the white paper stock to add a third colour to the designers' palette.Similarly, the work is divided into three parts: an A side (pp.3-106), B side (pp.107-128), and C side (the CD).Working in threes is meant to exemplify the spirit in which Miller creates music.To paraphrase his own statement, "All it takes is a DJ and two turntables to create a universe" (p.127).But what does it take to create a DJ?We learn that DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid began as a conceptual art project for Miller while he was "floating" in New York after having finished a philosophy and French literature degree in the mid-1990s.Miller made it a habit of distributing the question "Who is DJ Spooky?" on stickers accompanying mix-tapes he would record and pass out at parties.As the tapes were copied and redistributed, that question created a space for Paul D. Miller to occupy as a DJ, sample-based composer, and writer.Spooky's notoriety preceded him in the true sense of the words.Miller began publishing theoretical articles on DJing, sampling, and sonic collage during this same period (in venues such as The Village Voice, Artforum, and Parkett).The style employed in these early pieces reappears in the current manuscript and is strongly reminiscent of DJ mixing and sample-based hip hop production.Miller frequently jumps from one theme to the next, often relying on poetic turns of phrase to convey connections difficult to express deductively.At other points these cuts are more jarring and one is left to ponder the meaning of his juxtapositions.Ideas are layered on top of one another as much as they are strung together.Writing is treated as a musical endeavour:
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.117 | 0.061 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".