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2nd PHYLA COUNTERPOINT

Of Strings & Kings.





TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Introduction

1.0
Masks of Power

1.1
Mystification, Naturalization, & Literacy

1.2
Vectoralism: Content Isn’t King

1.3
AI & Intellectual Property: The Ownership of Possibility

2.0
Duets, Practice, & Play

2.1
Xeno-Duets & Learning Systems
2.2
You Can’t Teach An Old Form New Tricks: Overfitting, Underfitting, Bias, & Variance

2.3
Practice Makes Perfect
Practice Makes Permanent

2.4
Pattern Recognition, Improvised Learning, & Entanglement

3.0
Tuning Systems & Hyperparameters
3.1
Machinic Metaphysics: Trancendental Number and Harmony as Cosmology
3.2
Retuning, Retraining, & Recalibrating
3.3
Hyperparameters, Cultural Luthiery, and Sacred Tuning Systems

4.0
Afterward

4.1
Metanoia & Remodeling Indeterminacy



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Appendix A: Ancillary Musical Contextualization

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Appendix B: Algorithms & Library Implementations



Cullen Miller

I’m a systems artist, spatial media designer, and composer. ︎︎︎

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