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Record W1984447867 · doi:10.1177/00274321080940050107

Mimes and Conductors: Silent Artists

2008· article· en· W1984447867 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMusic Educators Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMusic Technology and Sound Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUnisonCLARITYArticulation (sociology)GestureMusicalVocabularyTerminologyAestheticsVisual artsParallelsArtSociologyLinguisticsEngineeringPhilosophyAcoustics

Abstract

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their gestures. n conducting workshops, attention is sometimes drawn to the relationship between conducting and the art of mime theatre. At some, professional mimes lecture on fundamentals and provide feedback on participants' conduct ing. Although I always found mime concepts compelling, my attempts to transfer them to my own conducting were frustrated by a very superficial understanding of the art form. This frustration led me to study mime theatre myself, hoping to develop an understanding that would enhance my own conducting and teaching. My brief studies have taught me that mime can assist us both physically and artistically as we strive to bring clarity, economy, and expression to our musical leadership. With the help of mime techniques, we can talk less and conduct more, allowing our students to make better music. There are some obvious parallels between the two art forms. Mimes and conductors both refine silent techniques to maximize clarity and optimize their message. There is a great deal of similar vocabulary: Mimes talk about phrasing, unison, counterpoint, and canon. They also deal with issues of pacing, shape, style, articulation, and dynamics many of the same things that define and ani mate music. What follows is a selection of mime concepts that have inspired the most reflection on my approach to conducting.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.197
Threshold uncertainty score0.551

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.213 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it