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Record W4412470639 · doi:10.21083/csieci.v16i1.7226

The Secret of Improvisation

2025· article· en· W4412470639 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Rolf Martin Snustad, Rosemary K Martin

Bibliographic record

VenueCritical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheatre and Performance Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImprovisationComputer sciencePsychologyArtVisual arts

Abstract

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Improvisation can be perceived as a great secret of life itself, an unattainable artistic practice, or perhaps just as an easy way out when something goes wrong. But is there more? And how can improvisation also be a way in, for the artist, for the researcher, and a disposition for living? This article unfolds as a duoethnographic journey of improvisation in music and dance. In the dialogues between two researcher-artists—one coming from the subject of music and the other from dance—discussions arise about another that inspire the other's history and lifts what their stories affect in art education, education, and research in general. In the article, we investigate how different framings of improvisational encounters might make space where space is not always obvious. We touch on different ways of understanding improvisation and how improvisation can connect with life in a broader sense, holding on to Fischlin et al's statement that “improvisation matters” (243). Could it be that improvisation is something "more" than what we now give it credit for? Are we longing for an improvisation pedagogy for life itself? Through such questions, we offer thoughts on how pedagogy and life are entangled, and how longing for more improvisation might lead us in and out of teaching, artistic co-creation, and situations in life to provide space for inclusion.

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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)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
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 score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.052

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0150.106
Scholarly communication0.0200.022
Open science0.0020.014
Research integrity0.0040.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.053
GPT teacher head0.377
Teacher spread0.323 · 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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