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Record W4241409286 · doi:10.1525/jm.2006.23.3.331

Modern Silence

2006· article· en· W4241409286 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Musicology · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPoetry Analysis and Criticism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSilenceAestheticsRealmMusicalExpression (computer science)LiteratureMusical expressionPolyphonyHarmony (color)HistoryArtVisual artsComputer science

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Silence has frequently been upheld as a terminus, be it the climax of artistic nullity or the void created by the inevitable cultural withdrawal of modern art. The idea of silence as a point of departure has rarely been proposed, yet modernist music shows that silence has played such a role. Silence is a state, a sonic or conceptual ideal to which a work aspires. Silence is one such ideal, as are purity, complexity, and the fragmentary. Modernist, especially late modernist, composers have written works that aim to evoke states through musical languages that emulate distinct qualities of those conditions. Webern, Nono, and Sciarrino are three composers who have turned to silence. Instead of parsing out sections of silence (as Cage did), they create musical settings that conjure aspects of quiet. All three situate their music in a particular scene, the border between sound and silence. Informed by stillness, fragmentation, and fragility, it is a space that appears often in modernist arts, particularly the writings of Beckett. Far from being a narrow and doomed location, it is a limitless realm, a new sonic territory. The borderland, like many states, has unique potential for expression. Silence has long been used expressively, as experienced in tense pauses, but Webern, Nono, and Sciarrino use silence to comment on expression as an act. They ask questions about the act: How does it start? How is an utterance conveyed? What happens to it? Silence provides a revealing backdrop against which to scrutinize expression. This commentary is part of an ongoing modernist interrogation of expression. The music of Webern, Nono, and Sciarrino adds to the interrogation, doing so through a modernist point of fascination with silence.

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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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.732
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

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 studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.193 · 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