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The Importance of Oral Histories and Audio Recordings in the Okanagan (Part 3)

January 6, 2023January 25, 2023 Erin ScottThe Pocket Desert Documentary

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 […]

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Recap of our Tech Talk 2: “Feminist Consent: Edits and Audio” by Sarah Cipes

November 23, 2022January 18, 2023 Erin ScottTech Talk Series

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 […]

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Job Posting: SpokenWeb Undergraduate Research Assistant

April 26, 2022April 27, 2022 amplabuncategorized

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 […]

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It’s more of a feeling… Digitizing Reel-to-Reel for the SpokenWeb SoundBox Collection

March 17, 2022March 17, 2022 amplabuncategorized

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 […]

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“It really was an elaborate trip”: Earle Birney on work, writing, and the BC Southern Interior

March 17, 2021March 6, 2022 amplabuncategorized

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 […]

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Community Sharing, Community Listening: From Stranger Stories to the AMP Lab and the SpokenWeb Podcast

February 17, 2021March 7, 2022 amplabuncategorized

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 […]

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Copy, copy, copy! Community-building through reproduction and circulation

February 15, 2021February 19, 2021 amplabuncategorized

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 […]

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What Are We Listening For? What I Learned While Co-Producing SoundBox Signals

June 3, 2020April 20, 2021 amplabuncategorized

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, […]

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Speculative Listening: Reading Audible Writing

May 25, 2020July 8, 2021 amplabuncategorized

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 […]

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In the Archive: The Charles Olson Memorial Recording

May 25, 2020November 23, 2021 amplabuncategorized

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 […]

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