It’s more of a feeling… Digitizing Reel-to-Reel for the SpokenWeb SoundBox Collection by Sarah Cipes (PRC Doctoral Fellow) As a doctoral fellow joining the AMP Lab in 2021-22, I was so eager to begin digitizing the final batch of reel-to-reel […]
By Yasaman Lotfizadeh (Lab manager) & Karis Shearer (Lab Director) The AMP Lab community is pleased to welcome our newest research affiliate, Michael Treschow. An Associate Professor of English in the area of medieval literature, Michael is the Head of […]
This is the second installation of an ongoing series coordinated by Paige Hohmann (UBCO Archivist) and Karis Shearer (Assoc. Professor, English) called “Archival Bonds.” The series explores the connections across collections housed in the UBCO Special Collections and the AMP […]
By Megan Butchart (SpokenWeb RA) On July 20th, 1969, around 3:30PM EDT, Angela Bowering, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, and Warren Tallman gathered around the TV in the Bowerings’ Montreal home on Grosvenor Avenue to watch the Apollo 11 moon […]
In sound studies, the term acousmatic refers to “a sound that has no visually identifiable cause.” Acousmatic listening emerged out of this term, and was aligned with a movement called Musique Concrète, which its founder, Pierre Schaeffer, describes as “A […]
By Karis Shearer (AMP Lab director) It’s Thursday, so it seemed like a good time for a throwback. This post was sparked by a conversation I had with someone recently who wondered if I was familiar with our FCCS Spark […]
AMP Lab Manager Want to work in a fun, collaborative Digital Humanities space? The AMP Lab is seeking to hire a Lab Manager GAA (Graduate Academic Assistant) position to assist with lab management and facilitation of research over 2021 Winter […]
By Karis Shearer (Assoc. Prof, English) & Paige Hohmann (UBCO Archivist) In the following exchange, UBC (Okanagan) SpokenWeb affiliates Karis Shearer and Paige Hohmann turn their attention to a clip from the SoundBox Collection and consider its connection to the […]
by Karis Shearer (AMP Lab director) In the SpokenWeb research network, we do a lot of listening: close listening, machine-aided close listening, “distant’ listening, and critic-led virtual listening practice. As I listen my way through the recordings in the SoundBox […]
Community Sharing, Community Listening: From Stranger Stories to the AMP Lab and the SpokenWeb Podcast By Judith Burr (SpokenWeb RA; MA student, Digital Arts & Humanities) I still remember that one evening, sitting around the folding table in […]