The Self and the Wolf: An Examination of R. Murray Schafer's Wolf Project
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Throughout Canada's independent history composers, visual artists, musicians, and writers have attempted to navigate the country's connection with its vast wilderness. One artist who explores this relationship to its fullest extent is Canadian composer and educator R. Murray Schafer. Schafer's Patria Cycle, a body of eleven works, explores themes from the romanticized wilderness such as the noble savage and the link between the wild and sublime. The epilogue to Schafer's Patria Cycle, “…And the Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon” is a multi-day community living experience and artistic collaboration, with approximately sixty members, which takes place in Northern Ontario each summer. In this work, (referred to as the Wolf Project by its participants) Schafer and a group of musicians, artists, actors, and wilderness-lovers work together to mount various dramatic productions bringing the Patria Cycle to a close. All the while, these artists employ a large amount of musical borrowing from Canadian First Nations cultures. While this borrowing on may seem innocuous to some and offensive and appropriative to others, the use of First Nations musical, spiritual, and cultural tropes and their subsequent romanticization by Caucasian artists has been prevalent in the environmental, New Age, and artistic movements which have helped define Canada‟s twentieth and twenty-first century wilderness identity.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.002 | 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) | 0.000 | 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".