Back in the summer of 2020, still in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging social restrictions, MA student Andrew Roberge initiated an interview with Listening, Sound, Agency symposium participant, Andre Furlani, whose recent research explores the poetics and politics of ambulation, or, walking. In this interview, learn more about Furlani’s research into the relationship between walking and sound, and about his interest in particular kinds of soundwalks. The topic seems especially poignant now, so many months into the pandemic, when walking, and simply being outside and listening, have become cherished activities for much needed sensuous experience, and for our sense of connection to our environments, and to others (even if, at a distance).
Article, Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG | acousmatic, Andra McCartney, Andre Furlani, Balade Montrál Equinox, Cities, Eastern Townships (Quebec), Gary Winogrand, J.M.G. De Clézio, Listening-Sound-Agency-Forum, Montreal, Soundwalk, Soundwalking Interactions, Walking
Sunday, November 15th, 2020, at 8PM the Words & Music Show comes to you from the Sala Rossa with a special online show featuring some of Montreal’s top poets and spoken word artists in performance.
The event will feature performances by:
Roen Higgins
Fabrice Koffy
Faith Paré
Jason (Blackbird) Selman
Performances | Montreal, performance, Quebec Writers Federation, spoken word, SpokenWeb, Throw Collective, Wired on Words Productions, Words & Music
Adjusting the Book Launch to COVID19 In September 2020, and with the restrictions COVID19 placed on book launches and book tours, Klara du Plessis organized a series of 6-person, outdoor, and distanced discussions to celebrate her second poetry collection, Hell Light Flesh. Each discussion centered around a series of similar passages from the new book, along […]
Workshops | book launch, Concordia University, COVID, Event, Listening, Listening Practice, Montreal, Quebec, SpokenWeb
What might an audiobook liberated from preconceived notions of the printed book sound like?
Lectures, Presentations, Talk | Audiobook, Concordia University, Literary Recordings, Matthew Rubery, Montreal, Queen Mary University of London, Soundtracks, SpokenWeb
Black Noise: Poetics of Afro-Congregation If dispersal created the Afro-diaspora, then who do we become when we are gathered? This SpokenWeb Listening Practice session will feature early thoughts on how Black creators across poetry, music, and performance have explored the soundscapes of congregated Blackness, from the hold of the slave ship to contemporary uprisings in […]
Workshops | Concordia University, Listening, Listening Practice, Montreal, Quebec, SpokenWeb
While we now have a well-developed grammar for our Content Field description of audio assets that we listen to, we are interested in having a discussion about what we see when we watch and listen to literary performance, and what we want to include in our descriptions of such AV documents, with the aim of discovery and use by scholars, students and the general public.
Workshops | Concordia University, Listening, Listening Practic, Metadata, Montreal, Quebec, SpokenWeb, workshop
This virtual, introductory workshop will include basic information about the AudiAnnotate project including using IIIF and the IIIF specifications for AV. We will share how to use Audacity to annotate audio files and to use the AudiAnnotate tool with Jekyll and GitHub to manage editing and publishing IIIF manifests and annotations for audio collections. For more information […]
Workshops | AudiAnnotate, audio collections, Concordia University, GitHub, Jekyll, manifest, Montreal, Quebec, SpokenWeb, workshop
SESSION 1 (4 PM-5 PM EDT) Moderator: Michael O’Driscoll (U Alberta) Title: Dynamic Systems for Humanities Audio Collections: The Theory and Rationale of Swallow (25 Minutes) Presenters: Jason Camlot, Tomasz Neugebauer, Francisco Berrizbeitia (Concordia U) This paper approaches a system that has been designed, and continues to be in development, for the aggregation of metadata surrounding […]
Conferences | Annie Murray, audio collections, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, conferences, Deanna Fong, Emily Murphy, Jason Camlot, Karis Shearer, Klara du Plessis, Liz Fisher, Mathieu Aubin, Metadata Management, Michael O’Driscoll, Montreal, Quebec, SpokenWeb, Tanya Clement, Yuliya Kondratenko
These sessions of the SSI are designed for student researchers to present ideas, experiences, and research they have been pursuing for feedback and discussion from members of the wider SpokenWeb network. Each presenter will talk for a maximum of five minutes and show a maximum of three slides. Following each “lightning talk,” we will open […]
Talk | Concordia University, lightning talk, Montreal, Quebec, SpokenWeb, SpokenWeb Team
For the past three months, Ian Ferrier, host for twenty years (and running) monthly Words and Music Show, and the 2019 SW Curator in Residence, has collaborated with Jason Camlot (Director of SpokenWeb) in running the online version of the Words and Music Show. While Words and Music usually takes a vacation in the month […]
Performances | Concordia University, Ian Ferrier, Jason Camlot, Montreal, musical performance, Quebec, SpokenWeb, The Words and Music Show, visual presentation