Room 101: sitting in judgement on the Elemental examples
One of the most interesting aspects of building Elemental has been the decisions I’ve made while either writing or finding the examples. The elements concepts are not, after all, perfectly boundaried concepts like those of the periodic table and it is for this reason that weird GCSE and A level mark schemes are a feature, not a bug, of examined music. One set of data that has come out of the Elemental trial shows accuracy in answering each example, with the unsurprising finding that three of the five most accurately identified examples are those exemplifying the sound of a piano. More interesting however is looking at the ones most frequently answered incorrectly and deciding whether this is...
