Join us via Zoom on October 6, 2022 at 9:00 AM Central Time to discuss the collection that you research and to begin considering how digital annotation might shape the preservation, teaching, and argumentation about unique events in recorded literary history.
Workshops | Annotations, Anthology, AudiAnnotate, Digital Anthology, SpokenWeb, University of Texas at Austin
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
Please join Cole Mash and the Spoken Web Community Task Force to discuss and workshop The CTF’s new draft of their Goals, Mandate, and Action Plan documentation.
Workshops | Action Plan, Call for Members, Community Task Force, Documentation, SpokenWeb, 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
This workshop will introduce participants to SpokenWeb’s Oral Literary History protocol, with special emphasis on conducting provenance and informational interviews. We will also engage in a more general discussion of Oral Literary History and its ethics, methods, and outcomes. All levels of experience are welcome to attend.
Workshops | audio collections, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, collections processing, Deanna Fong, ethics, interviews, Mathieu Aubin, Oral History, workshops
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
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