Free Improvised Music as a Deleuzian "Body Without Organs": An Interview-Based Engagement with Free Improvised Musical Practices
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis engages with the nature of free improvised music as represented by a subset of the current community of free improvising musicians in Montreal.Through interview dialogue with a set of four free improvisers participating in this community, I trace an understanding of their varied musical practices in order to examine how free improvised music-with particular attention to the listening and creative practices highlighted by this group-promotes unique forms of musical subjectivity.Drawing on post-Deleuzian scholarship around sonic experience, difference, and identity, I argue that free improvised music stands in a historically distinct location in relation to the 'musical text'.Furthermore-and drawing on the Deleuzian concepts of the "Body without Organs," and "the refrain"-I argue that the creative practices demonstrated by this set of improvisers highlight the capacity of free improvised music to confound conventional notions of musical subjectivity and selfhood.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.049 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".