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Record W561422579

Pythagoras's Curtain (2001, 12'24) electroacoustic composition

2001· article· en· W561422579 on OpenAlex
John Young

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Bibliographic record

VenueDMU Open Research Archive (De Montfort University) · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMusic Technology and Sound Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContext (archaeology)Electroacoustic musicVisual artsMusicalArtHistory
DOInot available

Abstract

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Premiere: White Concert Hall, University of Missouri-Kansas City: April 4, 2001.
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\nPublished: On La Limite du bruit (solo CD). Montreal: Empreintes Digitales (IMED 0261), 2002.
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\nFurther performances: PACE, De Montfort University (2007); Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (2006); Scarborough Electroacoustics (2003); Finnish National Radio (2003); University of York (2003); International Biennial of Electroacoustic Music, São Paulo (2002); Musica Viva, Portugal (2002); National Review of Live Art, Glasgow (2002); Rien à voir, Montréal (2001).
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\nResearch summary: Pythagoras's Curtain investigates the perception of tactility through sound using, as source material, audio recordings produced solely by human manual actions. The title points to the adoption/adaptation of the term ‘acousmatic’ by composers of the Groupe de recherches musicales in the 1950s. By way of a reference to an aspect of the teaching methods of Pythagoras, it refers to the perception of sound without direct visual confirmation of the source. The process of working with these sounds in an acousmatic context led to a three-way investigation of the interaction between the physical energy of gesture, the sonic response of the objects being handled, and the application of digital signal processing techniques and ‘interventions’ in the way manual gesture-energy and physical objects interact. In particular digital audio interleaving techniques and techniques of time domain envelope substitution were used to form new energy-object sonic relationships. Techniques of envelope substitution and wave set interleaving are also used to construct new forms of vivid spatial imagery within a stereo format.
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\nA discussion of the techniques and musical processes used in the work are reported in ‘Sound-Image Design and Electroacoustic Transformation Processes’ presented at Sonoimágenes 2002, Buenos Aires and further developed in ‘Reflections on sound-image design in electroacoustic music’, Organised Sound, 12(1): 25-33, 2007.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.836
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0040.003
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.063
GPT teacher head0.304
Teacher spread0.240 · 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