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 […]
Meeting Report: March 31st, 2020 by Amy Thiessen (Project Manager) Welcome to the first in a recurring series of short posts that will highlight the work being done by our UBCO SpokenWeb team. Since September 2019 our team has been […]
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by Karis Shearer (AMP Lab Director) In spring 2019 the UBCO SpokenWeb team commissioned multimedia artist Evan Berg (BFA ’19) to create a short film drawing on an archival recording from the AMP Lab’s SoundBox Collection. I was personally very […]
By Karis Shearer (Director) On Monday, SpokenWeb Podcast released its 3rd episode: Invisible Labour. Our UBCO SpokenWeb team has been following the podcast series since the inaugural episode, the occasion for which we hosted a big listening party in […]
By Karis Shearer (Director) Our AMP Lab community is delighted to welcome our 5th Principal Investigator Dr. Hussein Keshani and his team to the lab. An original collaborator on the lab’s CFI, Hussein leads a number of digital humanities […]
By Amy Thiessen On September 18th, Megan Butchart curated a close listening experience during which I gathered with friends, colleagues, and guests – including Daphne Marlatt and her partner Bridget MacKenzie – with the intent to listen. We first […]
By Megan Butchart (BA, English Hons & History) Earlier this term, I invited celebrated poet Daphne Marlatt to Kelowna and organized a series of events around her visit. With support from Tuum Est Student Initiative Fund and SpokenWeb, I […]
By Karis Shearer (Director, AMP Lab) Over the past few months, the UBCO SpokenWeb team has been digitizing the 160+ analog tapes in our SoundBox Collection. Most of these reel-to-reel and cassette tapes were made between 1960 and the […]