MDPE.5:4 - Worked Cases

MDPE.5:4.1 - The Call: a human–AI choral medium

The Call joined common musical material, fifteen vocal ensembles or choirs, a recording protocol, a dataset, bespoke models, production, and exhibition. Training a model or recording a choir was not the whole artistic result. The production question was whether those relations together made the intended human–AI choral medium available without replacing it with a technically convenient model demonstration.

The reported choral Work occurrences, recordings, dataset, models, and exhibition are different results. The source does not establish a universal production Method, recognized new style, comparative cost, or durable cultural continuation.

MDPE.5:4.2 - TYMYLYS: a modern-Dance production

The NDT production of Tell Your Mom You Love Your Skin combined a guest choreographer and design team, dancers, costume and technical capabilities, suppliers, venue, final rehearsal, film, archive, and touring constraints. Costume and hanging wooden elements had to meet aesthetic, movement, material, robustness, and transport needs. Final rehearsal integrated light, sound, stage, and Dance before the premiere.

Choreography, costume construction, lighting, sound, stage, touring, film, archive, systems engineering, organization, and operations kept their own Methods and results. The shared MDPE.5 move was to test where those results changed what dancers could enact and what the audience could encounter. Later reviews and the artistic director’s judgement are observations for MDPE.12, not parts of the performed Dance Work.

MDPE.5:4.3 - A social-dance integration trial

This constructed project example illustrates the result. A weekly West Coast Swing organizer must decide whether to open the next party at the planned floor density after moving to a smaller room. The intended Music-or-Dance Work is one representative three-minute pair dance inside the party. The partners must be able to hear the timing, maintain partner-readable response and their slots, adapt movement to nearby pairs, decline any figure, and leave safely.

The partners’ direct West Coast Swing Method, the DJ’s music and playback result, the venue’s room and electrical result, and the organizer’s conduct and emergency provisions are kept primary. WSDC social-floor guidance supplies slot orientation, adaptation to available space and nearby dancers, partner attention, refusal, and safe stopping. CDSS venue guidance supplies questions about floor, capacity, sound, access, equipment, staffing, and contingency. Neither result shows that this pair can dance under the assembled conditions. The riskiest relation is therefore expected floor density to partner-readable timing and safe slot use.

During a representative floor trial, ten volunteer pairs dance to the planned track at event volume. In the first configuration, pairs at the far side report losing the pulse, two slots repeatedly cross the traffic line, and several dancers shorten movement enough to break the intended elastic response. The organizer refuses the planned configuration, re-aims the speakers, marks a no-dance passage, and lowers the admitted floor density. A second trial lets the representative pair complete the track with readable timing and no slot crossings observed.

The performed result is that pair’s bounded Dance Work occurrence under the second configuration. The containing party trial coordinates ten pair Work occurrences. The sound-check record, floor sketch, and short video are artifacts, not the performed Dance Work. The trial made participation under those conditions available; it did not establish artistic value, whole-scene recognition, long-term safety, or cultural continuation. The organizer keeps the lower density for the next party and reopens the decision if attendance, room layout, music, or incident reports change the relation.

MDPE.5:4.4 - Algorave guidance without performed local Music Work

Algorave practitioner guidance can shape a programme and production brief: a dance-event setting, adequate sound, visible algorithmic process, varied technologies, a diverse programme, affordable access, conduct, accessibility, and community contact. It does not supply local collaborators, performer Methods, venue, costs, authority, capability, or performed Music Work. Use the guidance to prepare the local event; establish what occurred from that event’s Work and observations.

MDPE.5:4.5 - Recording and publication

A singer performs one studio take. The take is a performed Music U.Work occurrence. The audio file is a direct artifact. Editing and mastering produce later artifacts. Publishing one master is further Work and creates a publication occurrence under stated access conditions. Access does not establish listening or recognition.

MDPE.5:4.6 - Shimon and its development team

When Shimon autonomously continues a composition and performs marimba Work within the supported conditions, it is the performing Agent for that bounded Work. People configure the robot, organise and operate the concert, and choose later changes to the practice. That performed Music Work occurrence does not make Shimon the producer, curator, cultural selector, or practice-developing Agent.

MDPE.5:4.7 - Direct-Method stop

A small acoustic duo uses a maintained local performance-and-venue Method that already identifies performers, material, room, permission, safety, performed Work occurrence, recording, audience access, limits, and next decision. Use that result directly. Return to MDPE.5 only when another medium, participant arrangement, specialist interface, or intended use creates the integration problem.