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  • Short Circuits #1: Conversation with Teju Cole

    From the Electro-Library Podcast Studio comes a new stand-alone feature: "Short Circuits": One guest in the spotlight, generating electricity and shooting off sparks!

    Short Circuit #1: Jared talks to Teju Cole about creativity, race, identity, and freedom.

    27 min
  • Photography (Part Two)

    0:00 Ad: Ansco Cadet Camera, ca. 1950.

    0:19 Introduction: Scott Cohen.
    1:29 Excerpt 1 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972.
    2:11 Wisława Szymborska, “Photograph from September 11” (trans. Clare Cavanaugh), from Monologue of a Dog, 2005. Read by Helga Duncan.
    (Music: Jared Green, Untitled Ambient)
    3:11 Italo Calvino, from “The Adventure of a Photographer,” (trans. William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun), from Difficult Loves, 1987. Read by Wendy Peek.
    4:29 Vladimir Nabokov, “The Snapshot.” Read by Jared Green.
    (Music: Erik Satie, Gnossiene n°3. Performed by Laurent Bonetto.
    https://soundcloud.com/laurent-bonetto/satie-gnossiene-n-3)
    5:56 Ad: Orson Welles for the Vivitar compact camera, 1978.
    6:27 John Berger, from About Looking, 2015. Read by Wanjiru Mbure.
    6:56 Jessica Costello, “To the Girl in the Photo Dated May 8, 2018.“ Read by Jessica Costello.
    9:26 Excerpt 2 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972.
    10:12 Roland Barthes, from Camera Lucida, 1980. Read by Daniel Itzkovitz.
    (Music: Bach, Siloti transcription, Prélude in B Minor. Performed by Laurent Bonetto.
    https://soundcloud.com/laurent-bonetto/bach-siloti-transcription-prelude-in-b-minor)
    14:13 Ad: Liv Ullmann for the Polaroid Sonar, 1979.
    14:38 Amra Brooks, untitled story from This Long Century, 2018. Read by Amra Brooks. To read the full text, go to: http://www.thislongcentury.com/?p=9984
    (Music: David Szesztay, “Chains Down,” Atmospheric Electric Guitar. CC BY-NC 3.0.
    http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Szesztay/20170730112627137/Chains_Down)
    23:02 Music: “Pictures of You,” The Cure, from Disintegration, 1989.
    23:43 Ad: Kodak Brownie Starmatic camera, 1958.
    24:06 Ethan Canin, “Vivian, Fort Barnwell.” Read by Ethan Canin.
    Music: Ukelele Parade by Fernando Oyaguez Reyes CC BY-NC 3.0
    https://archive.org/details/UkeleleParade
    26:34 Interview: Ethan Canin with Jared Green on Photographs, Unreliable Memory, and Time.
    36:21 Ad: Excerpt 3 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972.
    38:38 Music: “Photograph,” Ringo Starr, from Ringo, 1973. Cover version performed by Danny McEvoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBU556przmA

    Thanks to: Ethan Canin for sharing his work and thoughts (recorded via Skype on February 21, 2019); Amra Brooks for reading her short story, Jessica Costello for her poem; Helga Duncan, Wendy Peek, Wanjiru Mbure, and Daniel Itzkovitz for their readings; Danny McEvoy and Laurent Bonetto for agreeing to share their performances. Finally, big thanks to Jessica Williams and Madison Parenteau for their expert audio engineering.

    42 min
  • Photography (Part One)

    0:00 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946

    0:19 Intro, Amra brooks
    1:43 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
    1:56 Jared Green reading from Nadar, “Balzac and the Daguerreotype,” from When I was a Photographer"
    5:32 Chris Ives reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Life in Boston”
    7:20 Scott Cohen, reading from Umberto Eco, “A Photograph”
    16:20 Vintage Polaroid Swinger Ad
    17:19 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
    17:29 Adam Lampton on Photography, Memory, and Moving
    24:02 Vintage Polaroid Sonar Ad (with Liv Ullmann)
    24:38 Joanna McNaney Stein, “Clean Slate” and in conversation with Jared Green
    38:15 Excerpt, The Ed Sullivan Show/Kodak Commercial:
    "All America is Cameraland", 1961
    38:36 Sutopa Dasgupta, reading Susan Sontag, from “On Photography"

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    Thanks to: Joanna McNaney Stein for sharing her work and thoughts (recorded via Skype in November 2018), Scott Cohen, Chris Ives, and Sutopa Dasgupta for their readings, Adam Lampton for his spoken essay, Jessica Williams and Madison Parenteau for their expert audio engineering.

    Music:

    Theme song: "Ecstasy in Umbra," Hitek Mesh@t/Tubifex https://soundcloud.com/user-736000448/ecstacy-in-umbra
    "Stickle," by Blue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0 https://www.sessions.blue
    "Blind Love Dub," (ft. Kara Square (mindmapthat)) by Jervis. CC By 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/55416
    "Titter Snowbird," by Bue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Resolute/Titter_Snowbird
    https://www.sessions.blue
    "Swollen Cloud," by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Ambient/SwollenCloud
    "Future History," by Jared Green
    "Blue," by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Homage_Fromage/Blue_1246

    45 min
  • Memory

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    E-L 1.2: Memory

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    Contents:

    1:47 - Students reflecting on memories
    3:10 - Wendy Peek reading The Aeneid, bk 1, Virgil
    5:12 - Lacuna commercial from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    6:00 - Mary Joan Leith on memory and mortality
    9:10 - Wendy Peek reading from The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
    11:30 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course (1918)
    12:34 - Janice Lee reading from her book Reconsolidation: Or, it’s the ghosts who will answer you and in conversation with Amra Brooks.
    22:04 - Lori Phillips reading from her poem “Lori”
    23:51 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course
    25:30 - Jared Green reading from Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time translated by Lydia Davis
    31:37 - Jennifer Segawa on the science of memory, smell, and taste.
    37:30 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course

    Thanks to:

    Janice Lee, who spoke with Amra Brooks via Skype in February 2018;
    Wendy Peek and Jared Green for their readings; Mary Joan Leith for her memory; Jennifer Segawa for her insights into the science of memory; Lori Phillips for her original poetry; Michaela Bottino for her audio engineering; and Tubifex for their beats.

    Special thanks to Emily Schario, Stonehill class of 2018, who served as managing editor for the Electro-Library.

    Music:

    • "Tools of the Trade" by Doxent Zsigmond http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/doxent/56512
    • "Gravitational Waves" by airtone http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/55021
    • "No Sleep" by logos http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Mseq/51121
    • "Jazzy Eve of Heavy Seas" by Wired Ant http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Wired_Ant/38009
    • "Sea Decay" by SUPER_SIGIL http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Super_Sigil/37789
    • "Arc de Triomphe" by Stefan Kartenberg http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56187
    • "Watching Other People's Holidays" by Karstenholymoly http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Karstenholymoly/57163
    • "Cloudlight" by Tubifex
    • "Gymnopédie n1" Satie by Laurent Bonetto
    • "The Garden of Memory" Emilio de Gogorza, Theodore Curzon, Russell Phillips, https://archive.org/details/78_the-garden-of-memory_emilio-de-gogorza-theodore-curzon-russell-phillips_gbia0034473a
    • "Flower" by Doxent Zsigmond, http://ccmixter.org/files/doxent/52940

      • Creative Commons By NC ND 4.0

      A production of the Digital Innovation Lab at Stonehill College

      41 min
    • Storytelling

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      E-L 1.1: Storytelling

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      Contents:

      01:03 Amra Brooks on Joan Didion’s The White Album.
      04:10 Poem: “Citizen,” Daria LaBoutina
      05:38 Wearing your liver on your forehead: An Interview with Lynda Barry
      11:52 Poem: “Names” Lin Chen
      12:52 “Windows,” Charles Baudelaire
      14:32 Timothy Woodcock: The Infinite Monkey Theorem
      21:20 From “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin

      Thanks to:

      Lynda Barry, who visited Stonehill in October 2016
      Amra Brooks, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Jared Green for their reading
      Timothy Woodcock for his mathematical storytelling
      Daria LaBoutina and Lin Chen for their original poetry
      Lila Lifton for her violin loops

      "Windows" by Charles Baudelaire, trans. Jared Green

      Music:

      • Ecstacy in Umbria by Hitek Mesh@t. https://soundcloud.com/user-736000448/ecstacy-in-umbra
      • Departures (ft. speck) by Airtone. CC By NC 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/50496
      • Festival Dream Song (ft. DFF Sound System) by Gurdonark. CC By NC 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/gurdonark/43006
      • Blind Love Dub (ft. Kara Square (mindmapthat)) by Jervis. CC By 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/55416
      • Gravitational Waves by Airtone. CC by NC 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/55021
      • Wanderlied by Robbero. CC by NC 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/Robbero/45425
      • 1939 Mercedes Typewriter by Doxent Zsigmond. CC by 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/doxent/42878


        • A production of the Digital Innovation Lab at Stonehill College

        33 min

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      A literary and cultural anthology of cross-disciplinary creativity from the Stonehill College English Department and Creative Writing Program. A Stonehill Digital Lab production.