Mind the Gap, It’s There on Purpose: The Exclusion of Sound & Oral Histories in Western Academia Written by Rachel Pickard, Undergraduate student and SpokenWeb RA at UBCO. This series of blog posts has been written in reflection to the […]
On October 18, 2022, the AMP Lab was lucky enough to participate in a truly unique Tech Talk presented by PhD student and hilarious stand-up comic Sarah Cipes. Sarah presented on her ongoing work with editing audio files from within […]
SpokenWeb Undergraduate Research Assistant Position Position Title: SpokenWeb Research Assistant Academic Level: Undergraduate Location: AMP Lab (Fipke 251) or remote Contract term: Summer semester (June 1 to August 31 2022, or until project is complete) Wages: 12 to 20 hours […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
By Karis Shearer (AMP Lab Director) Recently I’ve been thinking back to when I first received the box of Warren Tallman’s reel-to-reel and cassette tapes from my colleague Jodey Castricano in 2012. I remember looking through the dozens of tapes […]
By Nour Sallam (BA Hons English, SpokenWeb Undergraduate RA) When I first met with Karis Shearer in spring 2019 at the AMP Lab, I didn’t know that much about archival sound recordings. But the opportunity to learn more excited me, […]
Speculative Listening: Reading Audible Writing By Megan Butchart (Undergraduate RA, SpokenWeb) One of the richest audio genres within the SoundBox Collection are class lectures recorded between the 1960s and 1980s by UBC English professor Warren Tallman. From the clicking […]
In the Archive: The Charles Olson Memorial Recording by Megan Butchart (Undergraduate Research Assistant, SpokenWeb) One of the primary challenges in compiling metadata for recordings within the SoundBox collection is the informal and amateur nature of most of the […]