As part of Jason Camlot’s Literary Listening project, Dr. Jennifer Lynn Stoever, Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out and author of The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening, will lead a listening practice in the AMPLab at Concordia University on Friday, January 23rd from 3 pm-4:15 pm. Exactly how we’ll listen and what we’ll listen to […]
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The AMPLab (Amplitude Lab for Literary Sound Studies) is pleased to invite you to a Victrola listening party! We will gather in the AMPLab (LB 671.05) from 4-6 pm on Thursday, December 4th and listen to selections from a makeshift collection of acoustic recordings (78s) that have been donated over the past few years, using the lab’s […]
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SpokenWeb’s AMPLab is located on the sixth floor of Concordia University’s library building, just off a narrow corridor in the heart of the English Department. It is a unique space dedicated to the practice of literary sound studies, housing an impressive collection of audio-related equipment, from turntables and mixers to microphones, vintage reel-to-reel tape machines, […]
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In this spring series of SpokenWeb Listening Practices, listening practices are devoted to exploring the sounds of literature in analogue formats – from vinyl records to wax cylinders.
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SpokenWeb – a SSHRC funded Partnership Grant, Principal Investigator Jason Camlot – is seeking one undergraduate or graduate student to generate written and AV content for the website for the SpokenWeb AmpLab.
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We are looking for someone who has strong research and organizational skills and who enjoys working in a team with other students. Previous experience working in a lab context, or managing and describing technical equipment, designing equipment tracking processes, and an interest in audio equipment and digitization processes will be an asset.
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