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MDPE.5:6 - Sources and Epistemic Boundaries

Source or maintained resultContribution used hereBoundary
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, The Call, SerpentineHuman–AI choral production joining material, choirs, recording protocol, dataset, models, and exhibition.No universal production Method, comparative cost, recognized new style, or durable continuation follows.
Kloosterman and van Kempen, NDT production case, Tell Your Mom You Love Your SkinObtaining Dance-production case with choreographic, costume, technical, venue, rehearsal, film, archive, and touring relations.One well-resourced production does not define all Dance production or establish artistic superiority.
Algorave guidelinesDirect community event-programming Method that returns an event programme and production brief covering setting, sound, visible process, programme diversity, affordability, access, conduct, and community contact.The result does not supply a performer Method, local technical rehearsal, performed Music Work, audience recognition, or later cultural continuation.
Shimon projectBounded robot performance separated from human production and later practice development.Concert presentation does not establish robot-held authority, a style, or cultural continuation.
Yamaha, Seven Ways to Ensure a Smooth Sound Check (2022)Current practitioner guidance for an input list, stage plot, performer–engineer communication, console scene, monitor and house mix, room listening, and show checklist.A successful soundcheck does not identify or preserve every artistic relation or establish the performed Music Work and its receiving use.
World Swing Dance Council, Social Etiquette for Swing Dancers, and Country Dance and Song Society, Community Culture and Safety Toolkit, especially Part 5 (2024)Maintained social Dance, Music, and song-event guidance for venue access, floor, acoustics, sound, capacity, staffing, equipment safety, responsibilities, and contingencies.These checks prepare a containing event; they do not establish one pair’s performed Dance Work, partner-readable timing, artistic value, or whole-community safety.
Los Angeles Department on Disability, Accessible Public Meetings and Events ToolkitCurrent direct guidance for performer and audience accommodations, captions, transcripts, audio description, accessible media, technical tests, and later correction of recorded or streamed material.Accessibility provisions do not by themselves establish that the intended musical, movement, or participatory relation survived, nor that recipients recognized or valued it.
FPF A.15.1, A.15.7, A.22, E.24.PUBWork grounding, bounded live steering, several architecture views, and publication distinctions.These results supply no Music or Dance production choice.
Systems Engineering, Operations Management, and direct production MethodsConfigurations, services, operating results, specialist evidence, and direct Work.Local success does not establish artistic or participatory fit; MDPE.5 does not absorb these Methods.

These current practices supply different specialist results. The table shows which Music-or-Dance integration question can remain after those results are available:

Current direct practiceResult already suppliedRemaining integration failureMDPE.5 move that remainsStronger claim not made
Live Music soundcheck and Algorave event programmingInput list, stage plot, checked signal and monitor conditions, plus a programme and production briefThese results do not show that a selected performer’s Work preserves the intended sound, visible-process, or audience relation in the assembled conditions.MDPE.5:2.3–2.5 selects and probes that relation, then records the performed Work and receiving use separately.No universal live-production Method, prevalence, effectiveness, or cultural uptake.
WSDC social-floor guidance and CDSS Dance-event preparationSlot orientation, adaptation, partner attention, refusal and stopping, plus venue, floor, access, sound, capacity, staffing, equipment, and contingency questionsThese results do not show that pair Work remains readable, participatory, and safe at the intended density.MDPE.5:2.4 tests the load-bearing floor–sound–pair relation in representative conditions.No whole-field event recipe or population-wide safety claim.
Accessible live, recorded, and online event provisionSelected accommodations, media forms, technical checks, captions, transcripts, or audio descriptionProvision of access does not identify which musical, movement, or participation relation the receiving use needs or whether it survived the chosen medium.MDPE.5:2.1 names that use and MDPE.5:2.5 states what actually became available without turning access into recognition.No universal accessibility solution, artistic-value claim, or evidence of later use.
NDT guest-choreographer Dance productionA premiered work and production arrangement with specialist costume, set, light, sound, stage, touring, film, and archive resultsSpecialist completion can still change what dancers can enact and what an audience can encounter.MDPE.5:2.2–2.4 compares those results against the intended Dance use at their load-bearing relations.No universal Dance-production Method or proof of artistic superiority.

Across these forms, test relations where otherwise valid specialist results change the Music-or-Dance Work or its intended use. Use a direct Method when it already returns the complete result.

Reconsider how to integrate the results if a direct field Method offers the same result with less burden, or a representative Music-or-Dance case defeats a relied-on integration assumption.