The virtual panel “Teaching with Sound / Sound and Pedagogy,” as part of SpokenWeb’s Listening, Sound, Agency Symposium, brought together scholars on May 19, 2021, to exchange ideas involving sound within the educational context. One of them was Nicole Brittingham Furlonge, who took from her book Race Sounds to present the paper, “‘New Ways to […]
Article, Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG | Columbia University, Klingenstein Center, Listening, Listening Pedagogy, Listening-Sound-Agency-Forum, Oral History, Pedagogy, Teachers College
On Monday, July 5, we bring you a new episode of the SpokenWeb Podcast that explores the formation of poetic identity and community through the story of Robert Hogg and the TISH poets. This story is sonically told through the eyes of his former student — now SpokenWeb RA — Craig Carpenter. In the summer of 2019, […]
Interviews, Performances
We dive into what we’re calling the “paratexts” of the reading: the material and contextual circumstances that informed Gallant’s performance. These include an unrecorded and unarchived event that took place the day before; questions about the audience; the theatre; and the physical tape itself. We interview Ann Cowan-Buitenhuis and Carolyn Tate, who attended and contributed to the organization of the two events, and talk to Grazia Merler, a professor at SFU and friend of Gallant’s at the time of the reading. Their contributions provided both memories and facts not captured by the archival remains of the reading.
Interviews, Presentations | Ann Cowan-Buitenhuis, Carolyn Tate, Grazia Merler, Listening Party, Simon Fraser University, SpokenWebPod
In a virtual space somewhere between Wellington, New Zealand and Montreal, Canada, Preston and I her discussed work in close relation to the conditions, collaborations and trajectories that make it so. The sound of breath, Scandinavian külning, ventilators, cuckoo-clocks and the body all emerged as conduits. Preston’s investment in situating her work and self-situating within it—locating her projects within their particular connections, collaborations, memories, histories and skills—was inspiring, especially at a time of such fragmentation and disjuncture. Hearing Preston’s voice through a frozen screen, persisting over visual glitches and lagged response, not only affirmed Preston’s assertion that “sound always pierces the visual” but too, that sound is a vital index to the present: “it’s always the now.”
Article, Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG | Actor Network Theory, Architecture, Construction, Feminism, Method, New Materialism, Transdisciplinarity
On Thursday, May 20th, 130-3pm EDT, Nina Sun Eidsheim will deliver a keynote address as part of the 2021 Listening, Sound, Agency symposium. Titled “Re-writing Algorithms for Just Recognition: From Digital Aural Redlining to Accent Activism,” she will argue that “voice- and listening technologies carry and reproduce the same social bias, discrimination, and racism […] as Kodak film and HP cameras [which] were calibrated for white skin colour.” Elaborating on this important research, Nina generously answered some questions about her current projects and interests, providing poignant backstory to her keynote, and inviting all readers to events at her UCLA PEER Lab in the next weeks and months.
Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG, Uncategorized | Listening, Nina Sun Eidsheim, PEER Lab, Plenary, race, Race of Sound
Read and listen to Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne, in conversation with Mathieu Aubin and Katherine McLeod, discussing their recent publication, “Aural Speed-Reading: Some Historical Bookmarks,” PMLA 135.2 (2020). Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne are plenary speakers at the SpokenWeb symposium, Listening, Sound, Agency (May 18-23, 2021).
Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG | Jonathan Sterne, Listening-Sound-Agency, Mara Mills, Plenary
What struck me immediately in my chat with Dr. Julia Polyck-O’Neill is her attentiveness to relationality’s many frequencies. Her writing on conceptualism’s legacies and Canadian avant-garde scenes, particularly the Kootenay School of Writing, is necessitated by relations, whether building trust with her research subjects, or investigating the porousness between media and form in artists’ interdisciplinary practices. I was thrilled to learn more about Julia’s current research on digital and feminist interventions into preservation protocols for artists’ archives, which she is pursuing as a postdoctoral project at York University’s Sensorium Centre. She was generous to share some of her emerging revelations on archival intimacies, like being invited to pore over the private collection of poet Lisa Robertson, and oddities (including an archived pizza box!).
Article, Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG | Adrian Piper, archives, artists' archives, conceptualism, digital humanities, feminist praxis, Gregory Betts, interdisciplinarity, Lisa Robertson, Sensorium Centre, The Kootenay School of Writing
I was excited to talk with Andrew McEwan, whose research on Weiner’s performance of Clairvoyant Journal speaks to these very textual and aural qualities of the work. After speaking with Andrew, I returned to Weiner, listening for what he—provocatively, to use his own terms—theorizes as her “selvesothers.” I invite you to do the same and to reflect on how it might shift your reading.
Article, Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG | Andrew McEwan, Clairvoyant Journals, Claude Gauvreau, Disability theory, Hannah Weiner, Listening-Sound-Agency-Forum, Madness theory, New York, PennSound, performance, Public Access Poetry, Selvesothers
Cet hiver, Stéphanie et Mathieu ont eu le plaisir de discuter avec le groupe de chercheurs et artistes derrière le projet « Auxauralités ». Voici notre entretien avec Georges qui nous parle plus en détail de son travail collaboratif sur les métamatériaux acoustiques. – –
This winter, Stéphanie and Mathieu had the pleasure of discussing with the group of researchers and artists behind the “Auxauralités” project. We interviewed Georges to talk in greater detail about his collaborative work on acoustic metamaterials.
Article, Conferences, Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG | 3D Printing, Artificial, Artificiel, Auralisation, Auxauralités, BetaLab, Imprimante 3D, Listening-Sound-Agency, Listening-Sound-Agency-Forum, metamaterial, métamatériaux, Université de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke, UQAM
This summer, I reached out to Jentery Sayers with some questions about his research on voice user interfaces. He told me his research had veered in new directions and proposed that we discuss other related projects happening at The University of Victoria, where he teaches, and runs the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies. He suggested I get in touch with Julie Funk and Faith Ryan to learn more about what’s happening at the lab, which I did. Here’s a peek into their innovative work: ‘literary machine listening’ and teaching audio in fiction in the classroom.
Article, Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG | audio in fiction, Faith Ryan, Jentery Sayers, Julie Funk, Listening-Sound-Agency-Forum, literary audio, Literary Machine Listening, Pedagogy, Readers are Listening, SpokenWeb Symposium, The Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, The Praxis Studio UVic, University of Victoria