Different strokes: a prototype software system for laptop performance and improvisation
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Abstract
This paper presents progress in the design of a new software interface for laptop performance and improvisation. These performances can lack a sense of active creation, as well as a visual connection between the performer's actions and the audio output. This stems partly from certain patterns in laptop performance in which musicians resort to heavy automation to cope with performing complex compositions. The software presented here attempts to address this by requiring that the user create all of the control sequences on-stage. The user defines graphical control patterns that are mapped to sample playback. The current prototype resembles a freehand drawing interface where the strokes create looping and cascading animations that generate corresponding audio, ultimately creating music. This style of interface minimizes the use of prepared material and takes advantage of the computer's unique capabilities.
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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
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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