The SpokenWeb Podcast

With presentations from Lucia Lorenzi, Milena Droumeva, Brady Marks, and Blake Nemec (moderated by Hannah McGregor) the panel explores how we understand sound, noise, voice, silence, and voiceless-ness when they intersect with gender, feminism, and the expected, mandated, or performative aspects of speech. Including a new interview with Dr. Milena Droumeva that reflects on her presentation, project and sonification, Episode 5: “Revisiting ‘Feminist Noise, Silence, and Refusal’” returns to the 2019 SpokenWeb Symposium as Kate invites us to listen toward a new decade of feminist sound politics.

SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. 

To find out more about Spokenweb and our next Symposium in 2020, visit: spokenweb.ca. If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.

Episode Producers: Kate Moffatt, Michelle Levy

Podcast Project Manager: Stacey Copeland

Show Host: Hannah McGregor

Resources: 

The program for the SpokenWeb Sound Institute 2019 can be found here (https://spokenweb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Spokenweb-SSI-Program-2019.pdf) 

The program for the SpokenWeb Symposium 2019: Resonant Practices in Communities of Sound can be found here (https://spokenweb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SpokenWeb-Symposium-2019-Programme.pdf).

SpokenWeb's Audio of The Month: ‘mini’ stories about how literature sounds.

An extension of Katherine's audio-of-the-week series at spokenweb.ca, Katherine brings her favorite audio each month to the spokenweb podcast - so if you love what you hear, make sure to head over to spokenweb.ca for more.

https://spokenweb.ca/category/audio-of-the-week/

Produced by: Katherine McLeod, Hannah McGregor, Stacey Copeland.

SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.

Featured in this month's episode are Sina Queyras, a poet and teacher currently working on an academic project about Elizabeth; Maya Gallus, a celebrated documentarian whose first film, On the Side of the Angels, was about Elizabeth; Kim Echlin, author of Elizabeth Smart: A Fugue Essay on Women and Creativity; and Rosemary Sullivan, Elizabeth’s biographer.

This episode also features archival audio of Elizabeth in conversation at Memorial University (1983) and reading at Warwick University in England (1982).

All the music in this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions.

Episode producer: Myra Bloom is Assistant Professor of Canadian literature at York University-Glendon campus. She is currently writing a book called Evasive Maneuvers about Canadian women’s confessional writing, including Elizabeth Smart.

Resources: 

Warwick Archive (2019, Nov). Elizabeth Smart - English Writers at Warwick Archive. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/writingprog/archive/writers/smartelizabeth/280182.

MUN Archive Video Collection. (pre 1994). Elizabeth Smart: Canadian Writer. http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/extension/id/2981.

SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.

Episode Producers:

SpokenWeb UBC Okanagan AMP Lab Team with audio production by Nour Sallam and Craig Carpenter. Keep up to date with their current projects and events at amplab.ok.ubc.ca.

Resources:

Tallman, Warren. "[Warren Tallman reading Walt Whitman's 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry']." N.d. Home recording. Reel-to-reel tape. SpokenWeb at UBC Okanagan, SoundBox Collection, Warren Tallman fonds, 2012.002.005.

To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca and subscribe to The Spokenweb Podcast on itunes, spotify, or wherever you may listen. Join us every first monday of the month for a brand new episode from the SpokenWeb Canada network.  If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on iTunes or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.

References

Camlot, Jason. Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings. Stanford Universiy Press, 2019. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23893

---. "Historicist Audio Forensics: The Archive of Voices as Repository of Material and Conceptual Artefacts." 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 21 (2015). https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/10.16995/ntn.744/

Connor, Steven. Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Ernst, Wolfgang. Digital Memory and the Archive. Ed. Jussi Parikka. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Feaster, Patrick. "Framing the Mechanical Voice: Generic Conventions of Early Sound Recording."
Folklore Forum 32 (2001): 57-102.

Gitelman, Lisa. Scripts, Grooves and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era.

Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1999.

Naremore, James. Acting in the Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Rubery, Matthew. The Untold Story of the Talking Book. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016.

Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham, NC and London, UK: Duke
UP, 2003.

UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive, http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

SpokenWeb is a literary research network, dedicated to studying literature through sound. But how did this project begin? What kinds of literary recordings inspired it and where were they found? And what happened next in order for these recordings to be heard? For this inaugural episode of the SpokenWeb Podcast, Katherine McLeod seeks to answer these questions by speaking with SpokenWeb researchers Jason Camlot, Annie Murray, Michael O’Driscoll, Roma Kail, Karis Shearer, and Deanna Fong. All of their stories involve a deep interest in literary audio recordings and all of their stories, or nearly all, start with a box of tapes... Find out more at https://spokenweb.ca/

Guests: Jason Camlot, Annie Murray, Michael O’Driscoll, Roma Kail, Karis Shearer, and Deanna Fong

Host & Writer: Katherine McLeod

Producer: Cheryl Gladu

RESOURCES

Bernstein, Charles, ed. Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed. Charles Bernstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Camlot, J., Swift, T. (eds) (2007) Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule, 2007)

Fong, Deanna and Karis Shearer. Gender, "Affective Labour, and Community-Building Through Literary Audio Artifacts," No More Potlucks, online http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/gender-affective-labour-and-community-building-through-literary-audio-artifacts-deanna-fong-and-karis-shearer/

McKinnon, Donna. "A New Frontier of Literary Engagement: SpokenWeb’s network of digitized audio recordings brings new life to Canada’s literary heritage." https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/faculty-news/2018/august/a-new-frontier-of-literary-engagement

Morris, Adalaide, ed. Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Murray, Annie and Jared Wiercinski. "Looking at Archival Sound: Enhancing the Listening Experience in a Spoken Word Archive." First Monday 17 (2012). https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3808/3197

Shearer, Karis. "Networks, Communities, Mentorships, Friendships: An SSI Reflection" http://amplab.ok.ubc.ca/index.php/2019/07/09/networks-and-communities-an-ssi-reflection/

Toppings, Earle. "Gwendolyn MacEwen." Accompanying Material by Earle Topping about Gwendolyn MacEwen. Earle Toppings Fonds. Victoria University Library (Toronto).

Urbancic, Ann, editor. Literary Titans Revisited: Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties. Ed. Ann Urbancic. Toronto: Dundurn P, 2017.

BIOS

Katherine McLeod is an affiliated researcher with SpokenWeb at Concordia University. After receiving her doctorate from the University of Toronto, she held a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship with TransCanada Institute (University of Guelph) and a SpokenWeb post-doctoral fellowship at Concordia University. She has published on performance and Canadian literature, and her research focuses on broadcasts of poetry on CBC Radio. Most recently, she has co-edited with Jason Camlot, CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019). She tweets from @kathmcleod and curates a list of Montreal poetry readings at http://wherepoetsread.ca/.

Cheryl Gladu is a podcast producer with SpokenWeb. She is an interdisciplinary Phd Candidate at Concordia University, studying collaborative communities in both the design and business schools. She first got involved in podcasting through a media project for Future Earth called the Worlds We Want. You can learn about her broad range of seemingly unrelated interests at cgladu.com.

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Jason Camlot is the principal investigator and director of The SpokenWeb, a SSHRC-funded partnership that focuses on the history of literary sound recordings and the digital preservation and presentation of collections of literary audio. Camlot's critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford, 2019), Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (Routledge, 2008), and the co-edited collections CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (McGill-Queen's UP, 2019) and Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule, 2007). He is also the author of four collections of poetry, Attention All Typewriters, The Animal Library, The Debaucher, and What the World Said. He is a professor in the Department of English at Concordia University in Montreal.

Deanna Fong recently defended her PhD in English at Simon Fraser University, where her research focuses on the intersections of auditory media, event theory, literary communities, and affective labour. With Ryan Fitzpatrick and Janey Dodd, she co-directs the audio/multimedia archive of Canadian poet Fred Wah, and has done substantial cataloguing and critical work on the audio archives of Japanese-Canadian poet and painter Roy Kiyooka. She has been the first Student Representative on the SpokenWeb Governing Board and has participated on SpokenWeb's Metadata Task Force. She is also cataloguing the "Readings in B.C." collection of audio recordings at SFU Special Collections.

Roma Kail is the Head of Reader Services at Victoria University Library in the University of Toronto. She participates in and manages operations and services related to reference, research, instruction, access and circulation. Her current research and coursework involves completion of a certificate in Archives and Records Management from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information.

Annie Murray is Associate University Librarian for Archives and Special Collections at the University of Calgary, where she oversees The Canadian Architectural Archives, Special Collections, the University of Calgary Archives and the Library and Archives at the Military Museums. She is a longtime co-applicant in the Spokenweb project to develop web-based interfaces for the exploration of digitized literary audio recordings. She is currently overseeing the preservation of the EMI Music Canada Archive, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Michael O'Driscoll is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, and Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Arts. He is a Governing Board Member and lead U of Alberta Researcher for the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership Grant.

Karis Shearer, Director of the AMP Lab and the SoundBox Collection, is an associate professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus in the Department of English and Cultural Studies. She leads SpokenWeb’s Pedagogy Task Force and contributes expertise in the areas of Canadian poetry, performance, pedagogy, and media culture.

Say hello to SpokenWeb host Hannah Mcgregor as we kick off our brand new series - The SpokenWeb Podcast: Stories about how literature sounds. Find out more at https://spokenweb.ca/