The soundscape in the works of Charles Kiefer: a study on The pendulum of the clock, Waltz for Bruno Stein, and The face of the abyss.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper we aim to analyze the presence and importance of the soundscape in three works of the Brazilian writer Charles Kiefer. The term soundscape has its origin in the study of acoustics and it is associated to all the sounds presented in a determined place or ambient. For instance, in the fictional text, it is related to all sounds presented in the narrative. O Pêndulo do Relógio (1984), Valsa para Bruno Stein (1986) and A Face do Abismo (1988) form the corpus of analysis that has as its main theoretical sources the works of the Canadian composer and musicologist Murray Schafer and of the musician, teacher and writer Gérson Werlang. This essay was divided in four chapters. Chapters one, two and three are dedicated to the analysis of the soundscape in the chosen works of Charles Kiefer. The analysis follows the same order of publication of the books. In the first one, the sonic aspects are evidenced and also the way the sounds influence the acts of the protagonist. The second chapter stands out that the novel has the same structure of the waltz. Chapter three covers more than eighty years of sonic aspects of the community where the story takes place. The fourth and last chapter draws a panorama of sonic representations that appear as repetitions in the three novels, elucidating the particularities in each of them, in the way that they are represented in the texts.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".