Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rainforest by David Tudor was a commissioned piece in 1968 for Merce Cunningham’s dance RainForest, in which Tudor experimented with using found objects (with transducers) as loudspeakers (Rogalsky 2006, 93). In 1973, Tudor “gave the piece away” and led a workshop of emerging artists in New Hampshire (Rogalsky 2006, 183-184), expanding the work to the immersive experience known as Rainforest IV. Fifty years later, our goal was to capture the creativity and community of the 1973 workshop, while incorporating new approaches. From exploring scrapyards to borrowing vintage geography equipment from Queen’s University, we collected items that contributed unique acoustics to the sounds we wanted to match with them. Our collection was narrowed down to 30 items chosen by participants during our workshop at the H’Art Centre, a local art centre, after two weeks of testing objects and sounds. Although many types of sounds were used, there was discussion around the use and practice of field recordings. At the end of our workshop, we took our objects to the Baby Grand Theatre, where they were suspended, lit, transducers attached, and fed sounds that suited them best. A significant difference from 1973 was the use of impulse responses, in place of contact microphones, to enhance the sounds. During a 5-hour live performance, our session was recorded and then played back through our objects as a stand-alone installation over the following ten days. I discovered through this process that community is the heart of Rainforest IV. Tudor’s kindness influenced both the participants, through shared meals and encouraging advice (Adams, et al. 2023) and the piece itself. In 2023, shared skills, ideas, and meals helped create both an “electronic ecology” (Rogalsky 2006, 205), and a community. Despite our changes, Tudor’s vision of community was ever present- as if it came from the piece itself. Bibliography Adams, John DS, John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Linda Fisher, Ralph Jones, Ron Kuivila, Petr Kotik, and Susan Stenger, interview by Matthew R Rogalsky and Laura J Cameron. 2023. David Tudor's Rainforest IV at 50: A Conversation (July 15). Rogalsky, Matthew R. 2006. "Idea and Community: The Growth of David Tudor's Rainforest, 1965-2006." London: none, April. Accessed 2023.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.780 | 0.437 |
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".