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Record W2127652324 · doi:10.21083/csieci.v5i1.1121

Improvisation and the Unnameable: On Being Instrumental

2009· article· en· W2127652324 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Daniel Fischlin

Bibliographic record

VenueCritical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusic History and Culture
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImprovisationAestheticsEmbodied cognitionMusicalSociologyEpistemologyArtPsychologyVisual artsPhilosophy

Abstract

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This editorial frames the problem of improvisation as both an embodied social practice and an "unthinkable" event-horizon of the possible. If this observation approximates a truth about improvisation, we may well ask, how musical improvisation in the forms it has taken in the last century, aligns with other social practices in which similarly high stakes are in evidence. The editorial addresses how emergent rights discourses (especially in the latter half of the twentieth century) coincide historically with the arrival of radical forms of free improvisation (think John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Albert Ayler). Are there ways of thinking about the aesthetics of improvisation that overlap with re-invigorated notions of civic engagement that move us closer to meaningful forms of social justice and progressive change? Can musical improvisation in its most achieved forms lead to enacting other forms of human potential?

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.029

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0130.061
Scholarly communication0.0150.012
Open science0.0020.007
Research integrity0.0050.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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 head0.054
GPT teacher head0.333
Teacher spread0.279 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2009
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