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Record W580463613

Vowels and consonants.

2005· article· en· W580463613 on OpenAlex
Guy K. Sherwin, Lynn Loo

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

VenueMiddlesex University Research Repository (Middlesex University Of London) · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMusic Technology and Sound Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExhibitionMovie theaterVisual artsRealmArtCharacter (mathematics)ImprovisationHistory
DOInot available

Abstract

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Recently, the entry of film/video into the art gallery has generated interest in earlier periods of artists' cinema, specifically the material/formal ideas of 1970s ‘expanded cinema' (Live in Your Head, Whitechapel 2000) and has contributed to a renewal of critical production.
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\nThis ‘film performance' stretches the boundaries of film in three ways: production, authorship, means of exhibition.
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\nProduction. This work is possibly unique in exploring relationships between letterforms and output as optical sounds. Made without a camera, all images and sounds in the film derive from computer-generated letterforms copied photographically onto 16mm film. The work asks: what is the character of sound made by these physical shapes of letters (e.g. ‘O' is warm, ‘E' is hard) and how can they be composed as a film artwork?
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\nAuthorship. The work is an equal collaboration with artist Lynn Loo (UEA). Improvising musicians are at times co-opted to play live during its performances (Washington and Aufermann London 2005; Wilkinson Leeds 2006; Besson Paris 2006; Alan Montreal 2006). The musicians are asked to play within the implied space between the optical noises made by the letters and our knowledge of them as uttered sounds.
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\nExhibition. The work is radical in its means of exhibition, using six 16mm projectors as instruments while their soundtracks interact with the live musicians. The work tests whether film projection can be brought closer to the realm of improvised music.
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\nIn its various aspects the work develops ideas of optical sound (McLaren 1950s, Sherwin's own optical sound films of the 1970s - see DVD); of ‘expanded cinema' exhibition (ICA 1976, Dortmund 2004) and of image / sound collaboration (Metamkine 2005-7, Reble/Koner 2004-6).
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\nSuccess of the work is demonstrated using the same criteria as output one. 
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\nA combined DVD/book ‘Guy Sherwin - Optical Sound Films' is in production.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.893
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 studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0020.002
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 head0.034
GPT teacher head0.243
Teacher spread0.209 · 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