Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bodies constantly emit and receive sensorial stimulation. Having this feedback loop of sensation interrupted can feel profoundly disorienting, even smothering and threatening, as the author discovered when he first visited an anechoic chamber—a soundproof room in which acoustic reflections are virtually absent. This essay is a meditation on the role that sound, vibration, and sensation play in allowing us to feel at home in the world. To work through this proposition, Akiyama stages an imaginary performance event in the anechoic chamber at IRCAM (an institute for the study of sonic art and technology in Paris). This fictitious event brings together a group of expert listeners, including Alvin Lucier, one of the leading figures in conceptual sound art; Maryanne Amacher, a pioneering sound artist, composer, and psychoacoustics researcher; Daniel Kish, the found of World Access for the Blind and a noted expert in human echolocation; and Arthur Russell, a composer and producer who was at the vanguard of the New York downtown music scene in the 1980s, until his tragic, early death from AIDS. Each figure, different in their expertise and capacities, brings one closer to the realization that one’s ability to feel at home in the world is inextricably linked to our sensorial entanglement with our surroundings.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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) | 0.044 | 0.003 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".