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Record W4404617616 · doi:10.4324/9781003396710-10

Digging in the Tapes

2024· book-chapter· en· W4404617616 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

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

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

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.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

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: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.831
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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 communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.185
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