This hands-on workshop will outline the basics of record production. The session will be led by Angus Tarnawsky, a SpokenWeb research assistant involved with DIY record manufacturing for over a decade. During the workshop, you will learn how to make a specific style of disc with polycarbonate plastic, colloquially known as a ‘lathe cut record.’
Workshops | Angus Tarnawsky, disc cutting, DIY, Lathe, record cutting, SpokenWeb AmpLab, workshop
This workshop with Dr. Marit MacArthur and Augusta Funk (UC Davis) will offer a brief introduction to two user-friendly slow and distant listening tools. Drift helps users visualize and quantify sound patterns in recorded speech, while Voxit helps users quantitatively analyzing sound patterns in larger numbers of recordings. Both tools can support and augment traditional close reading and close listening practices. We will invite you to share projects you hope to develop, for the classroom and/or for scholarly work.
Workshops | Audio Tools, Augusta Funk, Distant Listening, Drift, marit MacArthur, Sound Analysis, SpokenWeb, voxit, workshop
In this workshop, led by Concordia PhD student Corina MacDonald, participants will learn several basic functions of OpenRefine and have the opportunity to transform data downloaded from the SpokenWeb Swallow dataset.
Workshops | Concordia University, Corina MacDonald, data transformation, openrefine, workshop
Hey, students! Did you know that as an undergraduate or graduate Research Assistant for SpokenWeb, you can pitch and produce podcast episodes for The SpokenWeb Podcast? On Wednesday, 22 June 2022, the two graduate students who make up the supervising production team—Kate Moffatt, supervising producer and project manager, and Miranda Eastwood, sound designer and audio […]
The SpokenWeb Podcast, workshop
In this session we will be presenting the first functional iteration of the interactive Wikidata annotation tool proposed on the study described in the SpokenWeb Blog post: “A Proposal for Semantic Annotations: An AI-Assisted Approach.”
Workshops | AI, Concordia, Francisco Berrizbeitia, Swallow, Wikidata, workshop
Members of the SpokenWeb network will be participating in the Archival Research: Best-Practices workshop at hosted at Simon Fraser University for students of this institution.
Workshops | Archival Practices, archive, Burnaby, Jason Camlot, Karis Shearer, Michelle Levy, Simon Fraser University, workshop
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
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
In this session, we will listen and read together, to reflect on the transformative potential of the letters. As we engage them in dialogic exchange, we will consider their aesthetic and political aims, their affective prowess, and their radical status as poetry.
Workshops | Concordia University, Diane Di Prima, Listening Practice, Montreal, poetry, Revolutionary Letters, SpokenWeb, workshop