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Balanced on the Roster, Not the Risers

validating a community choir's automated seating-balance score against audience-rated sound

A season-long validation study finds a community choir's automated seating-balance score climbs steadily across tool-assigned rehearsals while an independent panel's blind blend ratings of the same recordings show no corresponding movement, and tool-assigned singers are markedly more likely to describe their placement as assigned rather than chosen.

AuthorsMarit Osayande, Renke Sabel
SchoolSchool of Continuous Improvement
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.bx5gb5
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_bx5gb5,
  author       = {Marit Osayande and Renke Sabel},
  title        = {Balanced on the Roster, Not the Risers: validating a community choir's automated seating-balance score against audience-rated sound},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.bx5gb5},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-validating-whether-a-bx5gb5/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}