As part of Jason Camlot’s SSHRC IG “Literary Listening” project, Dr. Marit MacArthur will join us from UC Davis, California, to offer a guided listening practice, focusing on the potential of the digital pitch tracking and alignment tools DRIFT and Gentle (available via the SpokenWeb Digital Toolkits page). Participants are asked to upload one digital […]
Listening Practice, Presentations, Workshops | Audile Technique, Digital Tools, Drift, Gentle, Listening Practice, Literary Listening, marit MacArthur
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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Sponsored by SpokenWeb and Literary Listening, this workshop will explore ideas and methods of sounding and listening from the perspective of our guide, the internationally renowned composer, performance artist and sound poet, Jaap Blonk. The listening practice will be held in the AMPLab for Literary Sound Studies on the sixth floor of the Library Building […]
Listening Practice | Jaap Blonk, Listening Practice, Literary Listening, Sound Poetry
The ghost in the archives.
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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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A live listening to to selections of archival audio from the Marvin Francis collection at the University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections followed by readings of his poems by Winnipeg writers.
Collaborations, Listening Practice | Duncan Mercredi, Elizabeth Denny, Katherena Vermette, Listening Practice, Marvin Francis, Remembrance, Rosanna Deerchild, SpokenWeb, Trevor Greyeyes, University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections, Urban Shaman Gallery, Warren Cariou, Winnipeg
SpokenWeb Listening Practices return to an in-person format! As collective listenings, Listening Practices encourage listeners to reflect upon how they are listening. Join us to listen to a Gwendolyn MacEwen vinyl recording in this Listening Practice held in Dr. McLeod’s Contemporary Canadian Poetry class. All are welcome.
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Throughout this season of ShortCuts (The SpokenWeb Podcast), producer Katherine McLeod has been asking: How does the archive remember? This Listening Practice is an opportunity to consider this question through the audio selected by Michael O’Driscoll from the extensive audio recordings of Douglas Barbour in SpokenWeb’s collections.
Listening Practice | Douglas Barbour, Listening Communities, Listening Practice, Michael O’Driscoll, ShortCuts
Working with SpokenWeb’s digital archives of historical literary sound recordings, this session will introduce ideas and methods of listening to sound archives, and will lead participants in listening to and discussion of a selection of clips of recordings that document Montreal poetry readings from the 1960s to the present.
Collaborations, Listening Practice | Blue Metropolis, Concordia University, Listening, Listening Practice, Montreal, SpokenWeb
An extreme slow walk through the sound field where you live; the stimulation of the neurobiology of listening through Taoist Qi Gong practice and meridians; humming intimately the resonance of the body; a microtonal palette of vowels for slow breath song; a memory of sounds from footprints on a landscape.
Workshops | Anne Bourne, Concordia, Deep Listening, Listening Practice, Pauline Oliveros, workshop