Convergence and Soniculture: 10 Years of MUTEK
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
When considering electronic dance music culture (EDMC) -not as an object of study in the world, but as a description, a concept itself -the variables of the phrase come under some pressure.Need EDMC be electronic, as if electrons alone define the production aesthetic, "made by electricity"?Or need the electron signal the sound, as the 1990s defined quasi-genre "electronica" suggests by way of its inaccuracy (what recorded music isn't electronic in the 21C)? 1 And need EDMC be dance music, insofar as such a distinction would exclude prone modes of body listening found everywhere, in ambient music chill rooms, as well as the focused attention of the elongated ear to be found at contemporary experimental music performances from microsound to noise?And, in the case of noise, or other frequency experimentation, including the use of all-sound or silence -and one thinks here of the lasting influence of John Cage in experimental electronic music from embracing percussion as the means to all-sound to random chance operations to improvisation 2 -can we say that sonic experimentation need be conceptualised as music?In what sense?Finally, what bounds the three signifiers above into a culture?
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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) | 0.001 | 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 it