SpokenWeb Events AV, Approaching the Poetry Series Conference, 5 April 2013
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As a critical/creative constraint for participation in this conference we have asked presenters to engage directly with some facet of the primary-source audio held in our archive and made available via the SpokenWeb site. Lit papers may build upon ongoing work about specific authors who read in the series, avant-garde poetics, literary performance, etc., by integrating specific examples from The Poetry Series, or may perform substantial close-listenings of particular documented performances in the archive. From the tech side, we have encouraged presentations and demos of methods or tools useful for annotating, searching, visualizing or otherwise manipulating the digitized audio recordings, using audio from The Poetry Series as test data.
Suggested topics to explore in the original CFP included:
- Close Listening Methods
- Methods for historicizing the Poetry Reading Series in the 60s and 70s
- Avant-Garde Performance
- Meta-Poetic Discourse (intros and poetry banter)
- The Poetry Reading as Oral Pedagogy
- Defining a Prosody of Poetic Performance
- What We Look at When We Listen
- What Literature Scholars Do When They Listen
- Tools for Searching Spoken Word Audio (i.e. Sound Searching)
- Theories and Methods of Transcription
- Audio Annotation
- Audio Visualization
- Audio Navigation
- The Limits of The Audio Timeline
- Pitch, Amplitude and Other Features
- Web-based DAWs (digital audio workstations)
- Touching Sound (the haptic web and sound visualization)
- Controlled Vocabulary, subject-index schemes, collaborative tagging, etc. for poetry/literature
For more information on this conference, please email the SpokenWeb team: spokenwebcanada@gmail.com
