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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Today’s post starts with a bit of a throw back to the popular series of public-facing “Press Play” workshops we offered in the AMP Lab in 2018-19. Co-facilitated by me and SpokenWeb RAs Caitlin Voth and Deserae Gogel, the workshops […]
By Karis Shearer (AMP Lab Director) With Season 2 of “SoundBox Signals” on the horizon, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on our podcast’s first season. Since we launched “SoundBox Signals,” a SpokenWeb-affiliated podcast that “brings […]
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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, […]