The SpokenWeb Podcast

For hundreds of years, the Yorùbá people of West African have used “talking drums” to send messages across great distances. West African languages are highly musical, full of rising and falling tones. The pitch of talking drums can be adjusted to mimic these tones, so drummers can “speak” to one another. The drummer encodes the language, converting it into drum patterns, and in the process, poeticizes it. 

In part two of 'Drum Codes', airing next season on The SpokenWeb Podcast, we sit down with a master drummer and learn more about how drums function as information compression tools.

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:

Chelsea Miya is part of the SpokenWeb Edmonton team. She is a PhD Candidate and CGS SSHRC fellow in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta with a background in journalism. Her research explores the intersections of data and art/culture. 

Sean Luyk is a Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Alberta, where he works as a member of the SpokenWeb Edmonton team. He studies local music collecting and ideas of place in music. He is also a drummer, singer, and lifelong musician.   

Voices Heard:

Chelsea Miya: Twitter: @chelseamiya

Sean Luyk

Titilope Sonuga: <https://titilope.ca/> 

Wisdom Agorde

Tunde Adegbola: African Languages Technology Initiative (Alt-i) <http://www.alt-i.org/>

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún: <https://kolatubosun.com/>

Peter Olálékan Adédòkun: Instagram: @lekan_drums_intl, @adedokun_peter_olalekan, @drumsvoice_of_Jesus, @iluyoruba_yorubadrums; Twitter: @Drumsvoicej, @lekanadedokun1

Print References:

• Babalọla, Adeboye. “Yoruba Literature.” Literatures in African Languages, edited by B. W. Andrzejewski, S. Pilaszewicz, and W. Tyloch, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 157–189.
• Finnegan, Ruth. “17. Drum Language and Literature”. Oral Literature in Africa. By Finnegan. Open Book Publishers, 2012, 467-484. Web. .
• Ngom, Fallou, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, and Mustapha Hashim Kurfi. “The social and commercial life of African Ajami” Africa at LSE Blog, 1 Oct. 2019, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2019/10/01/social-commercial-african-ajami-culture/.
• Owomoyela, Oyekan. The Columbia guide to West African literature in English since 1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
• Sonuga, Titilope. This is How We Disappear. Write Bloody North, 2019.
• Strong, Krystal. “The Rise and Suppression of #EndSARS.” Harpers Bazaar, 27 Oct. 2020, https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a34485605/what-is-endsars/.
• Túbọ̀sún, Kọ́lá. Edwardsville by Heart. Wisdom’s Bottom Press, 2019.
• Villepastour, Amanda. Ancient Text Messages of the Yorùbá Bàtá Drum: Cracking the Code. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2010.

Recordings:

• Adédòkun, Olálékan. [various tracks].
• Sonuga, Titilope. “My Mother’s Music.” Mother Tongue, Titilope Sonuga, 2013.
• Sonuga, Titilope. “This is How We Disappear - Titilope Sonuga.” YouTube, uploaded by Titilope Sonuga, 21 August 2017, https://youtu.be/JbLwsLYrjzw.
• Túbọ̀sún, Kọ́lá. “Ọláolúwa Òní reads "Being Yorùbá.” SoundCloud, 2019, https://soundcloud.com/kola-tubosun/olaoluwa-oni-reads-being-yoruba.

Sound Effects:

• BBC News. “End Sars protests: People 'shot dead' in Lagos, Nigeria - BBC News.” YouTube, 21 October 2020, https://youtu.be/Il5qL7YbawY.
• Bloomberg Quicktake: Now. “Shots Fired in Lagos Amid #EndSARS Protests in Nigeria.” YouTube, 21 October, 2020, https://youtu.be/hu9FzU2TDvQ.
• The Dinizulu Archives. “Asante Ivory Trumpets - Ancient Akan Music - Pt 1.” YouTube, 23 March 2009, https://youtu.be/P3XxEefvpr8.
• felix.blume. “Dugout On The Niger River In Mali SOUND Effect.” Freesound, 20 January 2013, https://freesound.org/s/174933/.
• FilmOneNG. “Living in Bondage Trailer 1.” YouTube, 18 October, 2019, https://youtu.be/bQ9pUsXFqoA. 
• Lily Pope TV. “MAIN MARKET ONITSHA|| COME WITH ME.” YouTube, 9 July 2019, https://youtu.be/DJ3NyfV7tgs.
• “Nigerian Crowds - Lagos, native quarter with traffic & crowd atmosphere.” BBC Sound Effects, https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07015037.
• “Outdoor Clock - Church clock striking, 6 o'clock. (All Saints Church).” BBC Sound Effects, https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=07002268.
• Pasadena Conservatory of Music. “African Roots, African American Fruits: A Musical Journey (Concert Highlights).” Vimeo, 8 March, 2016, https://vimeo.com/158205356.
• Patrickibeh. “Nigerian Young girls playing 'Hand-clap' game.” Wikimedia Commons, 25 February 2019, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nigerian_Young_girls_playing_%27Hand-clap%27_game.webm.
• Protests.media. “Buhari Must Go Protest in Lagos, 17th of October 2020.” Vimeo, 27 October, 2020, https://vimeo.com/469395263.
• Rueda, Manuel. “Oaxaca whistle language.” Vimeo, 2004, https://vimeo.com/77702616.
• Muir, Stephen. “City Street Winter Day - Toronto - Bay St And Cumberland St.” Dreaming Monkey Inc.“Wamba Indigenous Music - Repetitive tune using a two tone communication whistle(vocal).” Recorded by John Watkin. BBC Sound Effects, 31 March 1996, https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=NHU05003080.

The audio for this ShortCuts minisode is cut from recordings of the Sir George Williams Poetry Series, all available to listen to here: https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/ and listed individually below. 

ShortCuts minisodes are developed from ShortCuts blog posts on SPOKENWEBLOG and the post that inspired this one is here.

A fresh take on our past minisode series – “ShortCuts” is an extension of the ‘ShortCuts’ blog posts on SPOKENWEBLOG, this series brings Katherine’s favourite audio clips each month to the SpokenWeb Podcast feed. Stay tuned for monthly episodes of ‘ShortCuts’ on alternate fortnights (that’s every second week) following the monthly spokenweb podcast episode.

Producer: Katherine McLeod

Host: Hannah McGregor

Supervising Producer: Stacey Copeland

AUDIO IN THIS MINISODE

Berrigan, Ted. [Recording] Sir George Williams Poetry Series, Montreal, 4 Dec 1970, https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/ted-berrigan-at-sgwu-1970/

Hine, Daryl. [Recording] Sir George Williams Poetry Series, Montreal, 1 Dec 1967, https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/daryl-hine-at-sgwu-1967/

Hindmarch, Gladys. [Recording] Sir George Williams Poetry Series, Montreal, 21 Nov 1969, https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/gladys-hindmarch-at-sgwu-1969/

Simic, Charles. [Recording] Sir George Williams Poetry Series, Montreal, 19 Nov 1971, 

https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/charles-simic-at-sgwu-1971/#2

Wright, James. [Recording] Sir George Williams Poetry Series, Montreal, 13 December 1969, https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/james-wright-at-sgwu-1968/

While her subjects are varied, and her interests and approaches have evolved over the years, poet Penn Kemp has always understood the power of spoken word to evoke emotion, shift consciousness, and shape the world. Drawing on a syncretic blend of spiritual philosophy informed by Buddhist, Hindu, and Celtic wisdom traditions, Kemp’s work is imminent and transcendent, embodied and cerebral. The words on the page produce certain effects, while the voices in the air produce others altogether.

In conversation with SpokenWeb Researcher Nick Beauchesne, a clip from Kemp's performance of Trance Form at the University of Alberta (1977) is brought into conversation with more recent material from When the Heart Parts (2007) and Barbaric Cultural Practice (2017). The episode concludes with a live reading from Kemp’s brand-new Pandemic Poems (2020). 

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:

Nick Beauchesne completed his PhD in English at the University of Alberta in 2020; he studies the magical practices of modernist “little magazine” culture and works as a research assistant on the SpokenWeb Edmonton team. Nick has been a performance artist and vocalist for over 20 years, going by his magical name of Nix Nihil. His music is available at soundcloud.com/nixnihil.

Penn Kemp has been giving creativity workshops, teaching and performing her poetry since 1966. A Canadian poet, performer and playwright Penn has been celebrated as a trailblazer since her first publication of poetry by Coach House (1972), a “poetic El Niño”, and a “one-woman literary industry”. Her latest poetry is River Revery (Insomniac, 2019) and forthcoming in 2020 is P.S., a collaboration of poems with Sharon Thesen (Kalamalka Press).

Voices Heard:

Penn Kemp, Nick Beauchesne, Nix Nihil, Ann Anglin, Bill Gilliam, John Magyar

Special Thanks to Adam Whitaker-Wilson for technical assistance and recording resources. Douglas Barbour for hosting the Trance Form reading at U of A in 1977.

Print References:

• Penn Kemp’s Pandemic Poems originally published in:
• Belanger, Joe. “It's time to embrace London's poet laureate, Penn Kemp, and all artists.” London Free Press. 11 Apr. 2020. https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/belanger-its-time-to-embrace-londons-poet-laureate-penn-kemp-and-all-artists. Accessed 17 Nov. 2020.
• Kemp, Penn. “PENN KEMP - Home.” Weebly. http://pennkemp.weebly.com/. Accessed 17 Nov. 2020.
• Kemp, Penn. “Penn Kemp: Penn, poet/playwright/performer.” Wordpress. https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/. Accessed 17 Nov. 2020. 
• Kemp, Penn, and Bill Gilliam. From the Lunar Plexus. Pendas Productions, 2001.
• Kemp, Penn, and Bill Gilliam. "Night Orchestra." Barbaric Cultural Practice, Quatrro Books, 2017. 
• Kemp, Penn. Trance Form. Soft Press and Pendas Productions (reprint), 2006. 

Recordings:

• Kemp, Penn. “[Night Orchestra] Barbaric Cultural Practice.”  Soundcloud, 
• https://soundcloud.com/penn-kemp/sets/barbaric-cultural-practice. Accessed 17 Nov. 2020.
• Kemp, Penn. "Penn Kemp - Trance Form, Live at U of A, February 18, 1977 (1).” Soundcloud, https://soundcloud.com/penn-kemp/penn-kemp-trance-form-live-at-u-of-a-february-18-1977-1. Accessed 17 Nov. 2020. 
• Kemp, Penn. Trance Dance Form, Pendas Productions, 2006.
• Kemp, Penn. “When the Heart Parts - Sound Opera.”  Soundcloud, https://soundcloud.com/penn-kemp/when-the-heart-parts. Accessed 17 Nov. 2020.
• Ambient vocal loops and drones courtesy of Nix Nihil.

A fresh take on our past minisode series – “ShortCuts” is an extension of the 'ShortCuts' blog posts on SpokenWebBlog, this series brings Katherine's favorite audio clips each month to the SpokenWeb Podcast feed. Stay tuned for monthly episodes of 'ShortCuts' on alternate fortnights (that's every second week) following the monthly spokenweb podcast episode.

The audio for this ShortCuts minisode is cut from the introductory remarks made by Muriel Rukeyser at her reading in Montreal on January 24, 1969: https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/muriel-rukeyser-at-sgwu-1969

Producer: Katherine McLeod
Host: Hannah McGregor
Supervising Producer: Stacey Copeland

Resources

Malcolm, Jane. “The Poem Among Us, Between Us, There: Muriel Rukeyser’s Meta-Poetics and the Communal Soundscape.” Amodern 4: The Poetry Series (March 2015), http://amodern.net/article/poem-among-us/

This episode of The SpokenWeb Podcast is a little different than episodes you’ve heard from us before. It is a kind of “feminist memory-work” - An audio collage, a method, an approach to community building which aims to honor lesbian-feminist collective histories and renewed public attention to lesbian feminist culture.

Episode producers – Felicity Tayler, Mathieu Aubin and Scott Girouard - cordially invite you into their feminist sonic memory world: A three-part audio collage of “Lesbian Liberation Across Media”. A virtual film screening and discussion held Summer 2020 in partnership with SpokenWeb, and featuring three iconic lesbian feminist films: “A Working Women’s Collective” (1974), “Labyris Rising” (1980), and “Proud Lives: Christine Bearchell”(2007). Through a weaving together of the voices of over 60 participants in attendance, along with original music scores, archival clips and more - we ask, how do we listen to Canadian lesbian liberation movements across media? Whether it’s a feature length film or a spirited virtual chat session, this audio collage episode invites you to experience a citational politics that makes audible the intergenerational relationships, conflicting concerns, nostalgic reveries, and a sense of togetherness while apart in the pandemic-related time of crisis.

Episode Producers: 

Felicity Tayler is the E-Research Librarian at University of Ottawa with a portfolio in Research Data Management and currently the PhD Interim Head, Research Services Arts & Special Collections uOttawa. She is an occasional visual artist and curator, and has published scholarly writing related to literary archives in anthologies, in Journal of Canadian Art History,Canadian Literature, and Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture.

Mathieu Aubin is a scholar on print and performance cultures in Canada. He completed his PhD at UBC and is now an Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University where he holds a leadership position within the “Oral Literary History” research component of the SpokenWeb project. As part of this project, he is working towards recuperating queer people’s contributions to Canadian literary culture. His work on queerness, literary communities, and Vancouver has been published in the journal Canadian Literature.

Scott Girouard is a Front-End Developer based in Toronto, Canada with a lifelong background in music and creative practice. 

Acknowledgements:

Additional Voiceover by Emma Middleton

Music by Scott Girouard and Mathieu Aubin

Thanks to Stacey Copeland, Hannah McGreggor, Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod, Constance Crompton, Michelle Schwartz, Rachel E Beattie, Raegan Swanson, May Ning, Jake Moore, Becki Ross, Amy Gotlieb, Rachel Epstein, Maureen FitzGerald, Marusya Bociurkiw, Baylee Woodley, Elspeth Brown, Stark (pseudonym) .

Humanities Data Lab at U Ottawa, SpokenWeb, Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada Project, University of Toronto Media Commons Archives, ArQuives  , VTape, VIVO Archives 

References:

• Anger, Kenneth, director. Scorpio Rising. Ruban VHS, 1964.
• Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’. Routledge, 1993.
• Godard, Baraba. Gynocritics: Feminist Approaches to Canadian and Quebec Women’s Writing.
• ECW P, 1987.
• Media Mothers, directors. A Working Women’s Collective. 1974.
  Moores, Margaret, director. Labyris Rising. V Tape, 1980.
• Navas, Eduardo. Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling. Ambra Verlag, 2014.
• Nicol, Nancy, director. Proud Lives: Chris Bearchell. V Tape, 2007.
• Ross, Becki. The House that Jill Built. U of Toronto P, 1995.

A fresh take on our past minisode series – “ShortCuts” is an extension of the 'ShortCuts' blog posts on SpokenWebBlog, this series brings Katherine's favorite audio clips each month to the SpokenWeb Podcast feed - so if you love what you hear, make sure to head over to spokenweb.ca for more.  

Stay tuned for monthly episodes of 'ShortCuts' on alternate fortnights (that's every second week) following the monthly spokenweb podcast episode.

Producer: Katherine Mcleod

Host: Hannah McGregor

Supervising Producer: Stacey Copeland

Archival sounds played (in order of sonic appearance):

• Maxine Gadd with Richard Sommer, reading at the SGW Poetry Series, 18 Feb 1972, featured in ShortCuts 1.2
• Daryl Hine, reading at the SGW Poetry Series, 1 Dec 1967,  featured in ShortCuts 1.1
• bill bissett, reading on CKVU-TV Vancouver, September 1978, featured in ShortCuts 1.6
• Kaie Kellough, reading at The Words and Music Show, 20 Nov 2016, featured in ShortCuts 1.3
• Daphne Marlatt, reading at the SGW Poetry Series, featured in ShortCuts 1.5
• Gwendolyn MacEwen, reading at the SGW Poetry Series, 18 Nov 1966, featured in ShortCuts 1.7

This episode - The Season Two Premiere of The SpokenWeb Podcast - chronicles different phases in the evolution of Deep Curation as a poetry reading curation practice, from its earlier iterations with Klara merely choosing the poems read by the authors and the order of their presentation, to its more robust form, with excerpted and intertwined works creating a thematic, cohesive arc. Poets featured from Deep Curation archival audio, include Lee Ann Brown, Margaret Christakos, Kaie Kellough, Sawako Nakayasu, Deanna Radford, and Erin Robinsong.

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:

Klara du Plessis is a third year PhD student in English at Concordia University and one of the governing board student representatives of the SpokenWeb research team. She experiments with a new practice of literary event organization called a Deep Curation, navigating the texts presented and their strategic, thematic arc. Klara’s debut collection of multilingual long poems, Ekke, won the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and garnered much critical acclaim. Her second book-length narrative poem, Hell Light Flesh, is freshly released, September 2020 from Palimpsest Press.

Jason Camlot’s recent works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019), the co-edited collection, CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Katherine McLeod, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019), and the article, “The First Phonogramic Poem: Conceptions of Genre and Media Format, circa 1888” in the open access journal, BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History (February 2020). He 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.  He is Professor of English and Tier I Concordia University Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia U in Montreal.

Voices Heard:

Lee Ann Brown, Margaret Christakos, Isis Giraldo, Kaie Kellough, Kate Lilley, Sawako Nakayasu, Deanna Radford, Erin Robinsong

Print References:

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

Bourriaud, Nicolas. Relational Aesthetics. Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, 2009.

Brown, Lee Ann. In the Laurels, Caught. Albany: Fence Books, 2013.

Christakos, Margaret. charger. Vancouver: TalonBooks, 2020.

du Plessis, Klara. “Santa Cova Muscles.” Unpublished.

Kellough, Kaie. Magnetic Equator. Toronto: Penguin Random House, 2019.

Longair, Sarah. “Cultures of Curating: the Limits of Authority.” Museum History Journal 8.1 (2015): 1-7.

Middleton, Peter. “How to Read a Reading of a Written Poem.” Oral Tradition 20.1 (March 2005): 7-34. Web. 25 December 2016.

Nakayasu, Sawako. Texture Notes. Seattle: Letter Machine Editions, 2010.

Obrist, Hans Ulrich and Asad Raza. Ways of Curating. New York: Faber and Faber, 2014.

Radford, Deanna. Poems. Unpublished.

Robinsong, Erin. Rag Cosmology. Toronto: Book*Hug, 2017.

Rogoff, Irit. “Curating/Curatorial.” Ed. Beatrice von Bismarck, Jörn Schafaff, and Thomas Weski. Cultures of the Curatorial. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012. 19-38.

Vidokle, Anton. “Art without Artists?” Ed. Beatrice von Bismarck, Jörn Schafaff, and Thomas Weski. Cultures of the Curatorial. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012. 216-226.

Wheeler, Lesley. Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.

Poetry Recordings:

Deep Curation 4th Space. Feat. Margaret Christakos, Kaie Kellough, Deanna Radford. 7 November 2019. Personal archive.

Deep Curation Boston University. Feat. Lee Ann Brown, Fanny Howe, Sawako Nakayasu. 30 January 2020. Personal archive.

Deep Curation Mile End Poets’ Festival. Feat. Aaron Boothby, Klara du Plessis, Canisia Lubrin, Erin Robinsong. 24 November 2018. Personal archive.

Sir George Williams Reading Series. Feat. Jackson Mac Low. 26 March 1971. https://montreal.spokenweb.ca/sgw-poetry-readings/jackson-mac-low-at-sgwu-1971/#1

Four Horsemen. Two Nights. 9 and 10 October 1987. http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/4-Horsemen.php

Ambient Sounds:

Cmusounddesign. “02 Museum.” 03:02. 29 November 2009. Attribution License. https://freesound.org/people/cmusounddesign/sounds/84529/

Ecfik. “Museum Ambiences.” 01:16. 2 August 2019. Creative Commons 0 License. https://freesound.org/people/ecfike/sounds/478349/

Pastabra. “Lounge tea party: Ambience.” 03:21. 31 October 2016. Attribution License. https://freesound.org/people/Pastabra/sounds/366194/

Wilhelmsqueek. “Cutting_Croissant_ST.” 00:20. 9 June 2016. Creative Commons 0 License. https://freesound.org/people/wilhelmsqueek/sounds/347384/

Music:

“Manny in Sound” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). Attribution Noncommercial License.

“Turning to You” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). Attribution Noncommercial License.

Tuned Down and Slowed “Turning to you” by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). Attribution Noncommercial License. Manipulations by Jason Camlot

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.

Trailer Producers:

Hannah McGregor & Stacey Copeland

Clips Featured:

S1E2 - Sound Recordings are Weird.

S1E3 - Invisible Labour

S1E4 - The Agony and Ecstasy of Elizabeth Smart

S1E8 - How Are We Listening Now?

Music - Palms Down - Blue Dot Sessions

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. Stay tuned for Season 2 this Fall!

Episode Producers:

Sadie Barker is a PhD student at Concordia, working at the intersections of aesthetic and affect theory, sound and decolonial studies. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies. She is increasingly interested in the affordances of podcasting to mediate interdisciplinary spaces.  

Emma Telaro is an MA student at Concordia in the department of English, and a RA for SpokenWeb. She is interested in the disruptive potential of sound and of silence in the literary. This is her first official podcast. 

Ali Barillaro is an MA student in English at Concordia University and a SpokenWeb RA interested in both the study of comics in the social media age and the sounds of audience response in the context of poetry readings. 

Jason Camlot’s most recent critical works are Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019),  and the co-edited collection, CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Katherine McLeod, McGill Queen’s UP, 2019). He is the principal investigator and director of The SpokenWeb and Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.

Bibliography:

Bender, John and David E. Wellbery, "Rhetoricality: On the Modernist Return of Rhetoric." The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice. Ed. Bender and Wellbery. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990.

Copeland, Stacey.  "A Feminist Materialisation of Amplified Voice: Queering Identity and Affect in The Heart." Podcasting: New Oral Cultures and Digital Media.  Ed. Dario Llinares, Neil Fox, Richard Berry.  Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.  209-225. 

Llinares, Dario. "Podcasting as Liminal Praxis: Aural Mediation, Sound Writing and Identity." Podcasting: New Oral Cultures and Digital Media.  Ed. Dario Llinares, Neil Fox, Richard Berry.  Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.  123-145.

Rapp, Christof, "Aristotle's Rhetoric", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

Sterne, Jonathan.  "The Theology of Sound: A Critique of Orality," CanadianJournal of Communication 36.2 (2011): 207-225.

Ong, Walter J.: Orality and Literacy--The Technologizing of the Word (1982). Routledge, New York, 1988.

Find a list of Ambient Sounds, Music and Additional Recordings used in this episode  Linked Here.
 

Each month on alternate fortnights (that's every second week following the monthly spokenweb podcast episode) - join Hannah McGregor, and minisode host and curator Katherine McLeod for SpokenWeb's Audio of Month mini series.

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/gwendolyn-macewen-reading-i-should-have-predicted/

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