Bibliographic record
Abstract
Time Sculptures (for orchestra and electronics) utilizes synthetic sounds to expand sonic capabilitiesof the orchestra. Speakers are placed in front and behind the ensemble, originating and finalizing every sonic material in the piece. Structurally speaking, every sound presented herein is a sonic, rhythmic and/or melodic derivation of an original chord sequence (11 chords in total), by means of a process-based compositional technique referred to as “Vortex.” Initially applied in an earlier orchestral work (Vortex Cantabilis), the technique in question has beendeveloped and explored over the entirety of my doctoral degree. Essentially, the Vortex repeats the same materials in different durations, intonations, layers, and directions within the ensemble, generating incidental harmonies, colours, as well as the overall structure of the piece. So far, four different types of orchestral developments have been conceptualized within this technique (Lateral, Fractal, Phased, and Rippled). Time Sculptures features two Vortex developments (“Rippled” and “Lateral”), divided by an interludeof solos and unusual instrumental combinations. In the “Rippled” development (mm. 1 - 79) the 11 chords are always initiated by the high electronics, and radiate towards the low registers/back rows of the ensemble, in a rippling movement. In its “Lateral” counterpart (mm. 110 - end), the materials are divided and the chord tones are passed between instruments laterally, one by one. Eventually, the rows (or layers) are solidified again and all the instruments in that row play together, making the rhythmic/harmonic relationships between layers more apparent. The idea of “spirals” in music has long inspired theorists and composers. As early as pre-Renaissancetimes, composers explored techniques such as “prolation canons" (which highly resemble the relationships between layers of the Vortex). However, by gathering ancient techniques of rhythmic augmentations, and contemporary instrumental colours, the Vortex offers different possibilities to contemporary music – having pieces which at once demonstrate fairly complex concepts/systems but which can be consciously understood by diverse audiences, regardless of their levels of music education or training. As such, Time Sculptures reflects on the idea that composers can make time visible (perhapspalpable), through compositional methods such as the Vortex.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.086 | 0.029 |
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".