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Unimagining Song: Making Kin in the Vocal Scene

2017· article· en· W2773145599 on OpenAlex
Chris Tonelli

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueYearbook for Traditional Music · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiverse Musicological Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUtteranceVariety (cybernetics)LinguisticsMeaning (existential)Context (archaeology)Perspective (graphical)AestheticsPsychologySociologyHistoryComputer scienceVisual artsArtPhilosophy

Abstract

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The task set out for us in this curated section of the Yearbook is, from the perspective I present here, problematic. We are invited to consider utterances on the boundaries between speech and song, and I cannot help thinking that this is like being asked to consider bodies at the border between the air and Canada. Though the terms “speech” and “song” both have numerous meanings, speech generally refers to something relatively concrete: the use of the human voice to convey linguistic meaning. The term speech is like the term air; it refers to something intangible but still concrete. Song, on the other hand, is like Canada. It is a reification. How do we address the space between something concrete and something imagined? Song's borders lie at a variety of distinct perceived locations. Unlike with speech, we cannot objectively determine the line between song and non-song. Even if no one shares your sense of where the borders of song lie, no one has the authority to claim you are wrong. Others may be correct to deem your judgment as culturally inappropriate in a given context, but not objectively untrue. If I hear all speech as song, you cannot prove me wrong. If you see all running as dance, I have no solid ground to assert that it's not. We can quibble over intention and the importance of shared cultural conceptions, but ultimately there is no objectively verifiable way to confirm an utterance as song.

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Full frame distilled prediction

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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.888
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.578
GPT teacher head0.293
Teacher spread0.286 · 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