This talk will explore some of the literary responses to an emerging and expanding consciousness of outer space, highlighting the impact of efforts to listen to space for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Talk | Aliens, Concordia University, Gregory Betts, Listening, Literary Umbrella of Quebec, Outer Space, SpokenWeb, Talks
At this event Concordia graduate students Klara Du Plessis, Frances-Grace Fyfe, Aaron Obedkoff, Angus Tarnawsky, and Salena Wiener will read aloud passages they have selected from Field Notes and engage Professor Dobson in conversation about questions of sound, listening, land, belonging, and the process of writing about these things.
Presentations | Aaron Obedkoff, Alexandra Sweny, Concordia, Field Notes on Listening, Frances Grace Fyfe, Kit Dobson, Klara du Ples, Listening, Reading, SpokenWeb
I first met Annie Murray in 2017 at a job interview (she was the interviewer, I the interviewee—thankfully I got the job), and in 2018 Annie asked me to join the SpokenWeb team as a research assistant. Four years later, we sit down—through our respective laptops—to chat about all things audio. As I soon found […]
SPOKENWEBLOG | accessibility, Article, Earle-Birney, interviews, Leah van Dyk, Listening, Robert-Kroetsch Annie Murray, SPOKENWEBLOG | Alden-Nowlan, University of Calgary, vulnerability
SpokenWeb’s Fall 2022 All Team Meeting will consist of each institution giving a short (5 min MAX) update on the projects currently underway, with a special focus paid to any potential opportunities for students from other institutions to be involved in.
Meetings | All Team, Digitization, Listening, Meeting, Participation, podcasting, SpokenWeb, Students, Zoom
Join us for a conversation with author Kit Dobson on methodologies of listening and the ways they might open up alternative forms for scholars.
Talk | Canadian Literature Centre, Edmonton, Kit Dobson, Listening, SpokenWeb, Talk, University of Alberta
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
This followup Listening Practice session will provide an opportunity for those who took part in the symposium activities to reconnect and discuss the experience as part of an open roundtable discussion
Presentations | Angus Tarnawsky, Concordia University, Listening, Sound Walk, SpokenWeb, Symposium, workshop
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
Clint Burnham, Deanna Fong, Linara Kolosov, and Teddie Brock The following pieces expand upon oral responses given at the SpokenWeb event “From Reel to Reel: Animating the Archive” on February 11, 2021. The cultural object at the heart of this discussion was the poem “Mayakovsky,” performed by the Canadian avant-garde sound collective The Four Horsemen. […]
SPOKENWEBLOG | Avant-Garde, Decolonization, Four Horsemen, Listening, Mayakovsky, Positionality, Simon Fraser University, Sound Poetry, Special Collections
On the closing night of the 2021 “Listening, Sound, Agency” symposium, Wired on Words partners with SpokenWeb to co-host a special edition of the Words and Music Show.
Performances | Cole Mash, Eight Track (Talonbooks 2019), Erin Scott, Governor General’s Literary Awards, Ian Ferrier, Jason Camlot, Kevin McNeilly, Klara du Plessis, Listening, Listening-Sound-Agency, Oana Avasilichioaei, performance, The Words and Music Show