Clint Burnham discusses the radiofreerainforest digital archive at SFU, focusing on the Four Horsemen’s poem “Mayakovsky,” and asking what it means to listen to sound poetry – that is, in this case an LP, broadcast on a community radio station in 1989, and since preserved as a digital object.
Talk | "Listening, archive, Decolinzation, Four Horsemen, Mayakovsky, poetry, radiofreerainforest, Simon Fraser University, SpokenWeb
Jason Wiens’ interest in teaching poetry with sound recordings has led his critical attention back to a tradition of textual analysis that emerged in France in the late 1970s, known as “genetic criticism” (La Critique génétique), with its interest in approaching texts as entities whose emergence is traceable through the study of “avant-texts”. In this interview conducted by Jason Camlot, Wiens talks about recent experiments and assignments he has used in teaching Canadian poetry with sound recordings, and explains his interest in genetic criticism as it relates to the study of audiotexts.
Article, Interviews, SPOKENWEBLOG | Audiotexts, Can Lit, Deanna Fong, deformance, Flywheel Poetry Series, genetic criticism, Kootenay School of Writing, Pedagogy, poetry, Roy Kiyooka, SGW Reading Series, Sir George Williams Poetry Reading Series
Part of the SpokenWeb Symposium 2019 This evening features performances of poetic work by Jordan Abel, Oana Avasilichioaei, Jordan Scott and Jason Starnes. Each uses the affordances of mediated sound to intervene in the oral transmission of text, creating work that invites engaged and differential forms of listening and reciprocity. The event will be hosted by […]
Performances | Jordan Abel, Jordan Scott, Mediation, Oana Avasilichioaei, performance, poetry, Sound Recording