Bibliographic record
Abstract
Symbiont is a multimedia (sound stereo or 5.1/video) composition, written during an AHRB Sabbatical Leave Award, \n2002. It has had 28 international performances, including ICMC, Singapore; Project’son Festival, Marseille; Most Significant \nBytes Festival, USA; Havana Spring, Cuba; Musicacoustica Festival, Beijing; Fylkingen Institute, Sweden; Logos Foundation, \nGent; and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Hear and Now. The work was a Finalist at the 30th Concours International de \nMusique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges. Portfolio: 1) ‘Schaeffer est mort: long live Schaeffer!’, in the online \nproceedings of the EMS Conference, De Montfort University, 2007. 2) Cortex (10'00, stereo/5.1 surround sound/computer \nanimation), commissioned by INA-GRM for the Présences Électroniques Festival 2005, premiered in the Grande Salle \nMessiaen, Radio France, Paris, 17 February 2005 (image by Michael Almond), with 10 further international performances. The \nwork is released on Mondes Inconnus. 3)Reviews of Mondes Inconnus (which contains all the outputs)from empreintes \nDIGITALes website are included. 4) Programmes from prestigious performances are included. Context: The research questions \naddressed in both Symbiont and Cortex are concerned with the aesthetic hybridisation between acousmatic music and \nelectronica. The characteristic elements of rhythmically driven electronica are distilled within an acousmatic frame: a frame in \nwhich vinyl sampling, turntablist techniques and stylistic elements of electronica are treated as source material to be \nmanipulated and processed as in any other acousmatic work. As a result, the works produce a fluid interplay between these \nelements. These ‘elements’ are akin to the memes that Steven Jan identifies in his article ‘Replicating sonorities: towards a \nmemetics of music’. The paper ‘Schaeffer est mort: long live Schaeffer!’ contextualises this work within an \nacousmatic/electronica axis and discusses the application of memetic thinking as a means of identifying common sonic units \nwithin these genres. \n \n[iii-06] \n \nSymbiont was realized in the composer’s studio and in the studios of the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM, Paris, France). It was premiered on November 24, 2002 at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK). It was commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Ina-GRM, and the Sonic Arts Network (SAN). The work was a finalist at the 30th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France, 2003). This version was mastered by Dominique Bassal in 2005 in Montréal.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.355 | 0.280 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".