Listening Session: Seeing Through Flames: Hildegard’s Musical Garden
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This listening session will draw inspiration from the German saint and polymath Hildegard of Bingen, considering how we can remix her lessons in the present. Bingen was a nun, poet, composer, visionary, prolific letter writer, herbalist, and scholar who wrote books on botany, medicine, music, poetry, and theology. Much of her music takes an experimental approach: her melodies seem almost improvisatory; her texts don’t follow grammatical conventions, are almost stream-of consciousness, and unusually rich and sensuous in their imagery, inviting us into the fecundity and mysticism of the garden. \n \nThis session is facilitated by The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, a queer-feminist collective of artists, musicians, academics, and writers, that revives a historical society believed to have been founded by Bingen in the 12th century. We will play some of Hildegard’s hymns (recorded) and work in the spirit of this proto-eco-feminist; and end with a live set by Mantawoman on the yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), tuning into how we can rethink the past and re-activate historical material and instruments. Mantawoman is Reylon Yount’s alt pop alter ego. Genre-fluid by nature, Mantawoman’s nomadic practice carries the yangqin across a spectrum of sound worlds, including covers of familiar pop songs \n \nThematically, the session will float around themes of abundance, transformation, imagined and collective gardens, finding solace in uncertainty, and claiming the history we deserve. \n \nThis event is supported by Canada Council for the Arts and produced by Queer Art Projects.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".