This listening practice prompts participants to reflect on the notion of “listening positionality,” as described in Dylan Robinson’s book Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies
Workshops | Concordia University, Dylan Robinson, Jason Starnes, Jordan Scott, Listening, Listening Practice, Positionality, SpokenWeb, workshop
SpokenWeb Co-Investigator Al Filreis (University of Pennsylvania) will play performances of two poems, Anne Waldman’s “Rogue State” and Erica Hunt’s “Broken English,” for participants. Following the poems, Al will guide participants through an open discussion of the performances and how we can talk about sound when the text being discussed isn’t a sound poem.
Workshops | Al Filreis, Concordia University, Listening Practice, performance, poetry, SpokenWeb, University of Pennsylvania, workshop
In this listening practice, Julie Funk will introduce Literary Machine Listening (LML) as a pedagogical technique for the literary analysis of sound.
Workshops | Beckett, Concordia University, Listening Practice, Literary Machine Listening, Pedagogy, Simon Fraser University, SpokenWeb, workshop
The session will (re)acquaint network members with the functions of both Drift and Gentle while demonstrating some updates to the user interface. Following the workshop, attendees will be invited to give feedback on the interface and discuss user-centric needs for the tools’ interface.
Workshops | Demonstration, Drift, Gentle, Performative Speech Analysis, SpokenWeb, UC Davis, workshop
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
The first part of this workshop will introduce foundational concepts and methods from oral history. The workshop will then proceed into the presentation of clips, case-studies and scenarios for all-group discussion with the goals of 1. collaboratively defining a SpokenWeb Oral History protocol for engaging in interviews around collections of literary sound recordings, and 2. […]
Workshops | Collection, Concordia University, literary sound, Mathieu Aubin, Montreal, Oral History, oral literary history, Quebec, Samuel Mercier, SpokenWeb, Steven High, workshop
A weekly session for exploring and experimenting with different modes of listening. Each week our practice will be guided by an expert from SpokenWeb. What is listening? What are we listening for when we are listening? What are listening techniques for different disciplines? Join us, once or weekly, for Listening Practice. All are welcome!
Workshops | Anglophone Heritage Network, Chelsea Miya, Concordia University, Listening Practice, Montreal, Quebec, SpokenWeb, workshop, Writers Read
A weekly session for exploring and experimenting with different modes of listening. Each week our practice will be guided by an expert from SpokenWeb. What is listening? What are we listening for when we are listening? What are listening techniques for different disciplines? Join us, once or weekly, for Listening Practice. All are welcome!
Workshops | Anglophone Heritage Network, Concordia University, David Seubert, Listening Practice, Montreal, Quebec, SpokenWeb, workshop, Writers Read
A weekly session for exploring and experimenting with different modes of listening. Each week our practice will be guided by an expert from SpokenWeb. What is listening? What are we listening for when we are listening? What are listening techniques for different disciplines? Join us, once or weekly, for Listening Practice. All are welcome!
Workshops | Anglophone Heritage Network, Concordia University, Listening Practice, Montreal, Quebec, SpokenWeb, Steven High, workshop, Writers Read