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Record W4404617616 · doi:10.4324/9781003396710-10

Digging in the Tapes

2024· book-chapter· en· W4404617616 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Paul Thompson, Toby Seay, Kirk McNally

Bibliographic record

VenueFocal Press eBooks · 2024
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiverse Musicological Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDiggingComputer scienceGeologyHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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Although multitrack audio recordings are a critical component of nearly every recorded musical work, they have historically been difficult to acquire because of their commercially sensitive nature. However, one example of an emergent archive and collections, that allows researchers to peer into the record company vaults, is the EMI Music Canada Archive at the University of Calgary (UofC) in Canada. This archive holds demo tapes, song lyrics, concert planning documents, promotional material, cover art, correspondence between artists, management, producers and executives in addition to the multitrack tapes of the recordings. The following chapter draws upon materials gathered from the UofC Archives, (that of Canadian Rock band ‘Grapes of Wrath’ and their album These Days (1991) produced by British Record Producer John Leckie) and describes how researchers at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA, and Leeds Beckett University in Leeds, UK, designed and delivered a mixing course to students using these materials. Students were asked to reflect on their own learning and experience throughout the project and these reflections helped to show that focusing on telling the story of the record, and using the additional archival materials to do so, did more than just improve students’ technical mixing skills. Instead, it helped the students to develop a wider appreciation of the ways in which their creative decisions might be received by the relevant stakeholders such as the band, the producer, etc. and, importantly, helped them better understand their role as a mix engineer within the production process .

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
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: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.096
Threshold uncertainty score0.322

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0060.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0960.051

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 head0.185
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.051 · 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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