Singing the body electric: Real-time and virtual performance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bruce Cassidy’s Body Electric appeared briefly in the 1990s in Johannesburg to \nperform a number of concerts there, including two concerts at the University of \nthe Witwatersrand. Led by the Canadian-born Cassidy and formed as a “healing \nband”, the free improvising Body Electric drew on the experience and attitudes of \nmusicians from fairly eclectic backgrounds (the late David Hoenigsberg, a Western \nart music composer, as well as more ostensibly “jazz” improvisers like Rashid Lanie, \nRob Watson, and myself). Examining extracts (posted by Cassidy on YouTube) \nfrom Seth Asch’s documentary film on the Body Electric’s April 1993 performance \nat the University of the Witwatersrand’s Bozzoli Pavilion raises questions around \nthe legacy of exploratory music of this kind. Considering the differences between \nthe original live performance and its current digitised state as historical record, the \nquestion arises as to whether and how these performances may be compared to \none another.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 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".