Cover to Cover: The Evolution of Western Canadian Album Cover Art and August Soehn: Forty Years of Television Art
Bibliographic record
Abstract
assisted by Registrar Gerry Osmond, take the visitor back to another era of music history.Silversides and Osmond reveal the history of album cover design in Western Canada, by illustrating how record producers tried to stimulate emotions and create reactions in their potential customers through album cover design.The exhibition includes eighty-four album covers from the earliest records of prominent recording artists from the region from 1958 to 1990, arranged in general chronological order.The array of album covers reveals who the current stars were and who the future stars would be, and provides a good sense of popular taste in Western Canada during this time.We learn what hair and clothing styles were in vogue with listeners, what trends in the visual arts were capturing imaginations, and what moods the albums elicited when played.For a period of nearly forty years in the late twentieth century, the standard medium of recorded music throughout the world was the vinyl phonograph record, in either 45 or 33 & 1/3 RPM format.As distinguished from the earlier 78 RPM plastic disc, the vinyl record was compact, durable, and, in the case of the 12" LP, it allowed for longer playing time.For devotees of classical music or opera, full performances could now be heard with minimal interruption.Listeners to the various forms of popular music were also better served, as ten or twelve songs by their favourite performers could now be included on one record.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".