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Record W4320803658 · doi:10.1017/9781580468411.005

“A need to communicate with the rest of the cosmos” (1972–74)

2014· other· en· W4320803658 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bob Gilmore

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusicology and Musical Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMantraRest (music)ReverencePortraitConsciousnessReading (process)Character (mathematics)PhilosophyArt historyPsychologyArtEpistemologyTheologyLinguisticsMathematics

Abstract

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“ I n his works Stockhausen wants to expand the field of human consciousness, to show us new planets,” wrote Vivier in December 1978 of the music of his former teacher. “But who is Stockhausen the man? In Momente , at the moment ‘KK’ (K: Klang/sound and K: Karlheinz) he gives us his self-portrait: a great call, solitary and sad; his need to speak comes from a great solitude, from a need to communicate with the rest of the cosmos.” It is striking that these last words seem to apply equally well to teacher and student: for what better characterization could there be of Vivier’s own music than “a great call, solitary and sad,” its particular blend of expressive intensity and disciplined calculation issuing from “a need to communicate with the rest of the cosmos?” Reading Vivier’s text, a brief program note written for a performance of Stockhausen’s Mantra by the SMCQ in Montreal, it is clear that the reverence he feels toward his former teacher’s work is tinged with empathy for its expressive aims—even with a degree of identification with the person of its creator. That Stockhausen played a crucial role in Vivier’s musical development is beyond question. In the autobiographical note Vivier supplied for a performance of his Lettura di Dante in Toronto in 1975, he noted: “Born in Montreal in 1948. Born to music with Gilles Tremblay in 1968. Born to composition with Stockhausen in 1972.” Indeed, the widespread view is that, during the years he studied formally with Stockhausen at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne (1972–74), Vivier hero-worshipped the German composer. Gilles Tremblay feels that Vivier was ébloui (dazzled) by Stockhausen; while Vivier’s fellow student Kevin Volans recalls that, at that time, “the general perception of Claude was that he was THE Stockhausen student. He idolized him, and idolized his way of working. It was intriguing how Claude managed to reconcile that with his own sort of mystic Catholicism”—almost as though, Volans seems to imply, Vivier viewed his teacher as a sort of god. The English musicologist Richard Toop, Stockhausen’s teaching assistant for the academic year 1973–74, recalls that “Claude was by far Stockhausen’s most loyal adherent in the class (in fact, I think of loyalty as one of Claude’s key characteristics), and the only one to share Stockhausen’s spiritual outlook to any significant degree.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
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: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.231
Threshold uncertainty score0.460

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.017
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.029
GPT teacher head0.212
Teacher spread0.183 · 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
GenreOther

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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