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
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
For this Virtual Ghost Reading, we will collectively listen to excerpts from the recording of Canadian poet Margaret Avison’s reading from her book The Winter Sun, and we will listen on the same day that the reading took place in Montreal on Wednesday January 27, 1967.
Workshops | Concordia University, Event, Ghost Reading, Listening, Listening Practice, Margaret Avison, SpokenWeb
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