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10037
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
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SpokenWeb AV
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ArchiveOfThePresent
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SpokenWeb Audio Visual Collection
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SpokenWeb
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https://archiveofthepresent.spokenweb.ca/_nuxt/img/header-img_1000.fd7675f.png
Series Title:
SpokenWeb Events
Sub Series Title:
SpokenWeb AV
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
SpokenWeb Events AV, Day 1 The Uses of Spoken Audio Collections in Research and Creation: New Literary Methods Panel II, The Literary Audio Symposium, 2 December 2016
Title Source:
https://spokenweb.ca/symposia/#/literary-audio-symposium
Language:
English
Production Context:
Classroom recording
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CREATORS
Name:
Jason Camlot
Dates:
1967-
Name:
Deanna Fong
Name:
Tony Power
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Sample Rate:
48 kHz
Duration:
01:40:36
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1,738,286,080 bytes
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MP3 audio
Title:
day1_session3
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Dates
Date:
2016-12-02
Type:
Production Date
LOCATION
Address:
1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve O, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8
Venue:
Concordia University McConnell Building
Latitude:
45.4968036
Longitude:
-73.57792785757887
CONTENT
Contents:
DEANNA FONG (Simon Fraser U)
“Itinerant Audio-biography: Digitizing, Editing and Managing the Roy Kiyooka Digital Audio Archive”
This presentation will detail my activities digitizing, developing, annotating, and managing the audio archive of Canadian poet, Roy Kiyooka. Kiyooka’s archival fonds at Simon Fraser University contains over 400 analog audio recordings inscribed on a variety of media: cassettes, mini-cassettes, and reel-to-reels. Recorded between 1963 and 1988, a burgeoning period of literary and artistic production, the tapes record the voices of many of Vancouver’s avant-garde figures, such as Fred Wah, Daphne Marlatt, Carole Itter, Al Neil, George Bowering, Alvin Balkin, and Gerry Gilbert. The focus of my presentation will be on the archive’s non-traditional audio genres, which include conversation, performance, ambient sound, and field recordings. I will outline the material, organizational and ethical challenges that these genres pose, attending to questions of navigation, access, privacy and consent.
Deanna Fong is a poet and PhD student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where her research focuses on the intersections of performance, audio archives, literary communities and intellectual property. She is a member of the federally funded SpokenWeb team, who have developed a web-based archive of digitized audio recordings for literary study. With Ryan Fitzpatrick and Janey Dodd, she co-directs the Fred Wah Archive, and is currently developing the digital audio archive of Canadian artist and poet Roy Kiyooka.
TONY POWER (Simon Fraser U)
“Literary Audio in SFU Library’s Contemporary Literature Collection”
The Contemporary Literature Collection in SFU Library’s Special Collections & Rare Books Division is a large, focused, mature collection of 20th & 21st C. avant-garde/’innovative’ poetry in English. Dating from the founding of the university in 1965, it is comprised primarily of published and archival materials but also includes many audio recordings. In this talk the collection’s curator will provide some background on the CLC as a whole, its history and definition and the collection policy that informs its contents. With this as context, he will then describe the audio component of the collection – its size and content, the present state of its digitization, as well as the significance of its considerable overlap (as far as writers recorded) with the Sir George Williams poetry series recordings held in the Special Collections at Concordia University in Montreal. This presentation will be coordinated with other participants from SFU, and in particular with Deanna Fong’s presentation on the audio holdings of a single author (Roy Kiyooka) held within the Contemporary Literature Collection.
Tony Power is a special collections librarian (M.L.S.) at SFU Library. Since 2000 he has been curator of the Contemporary Literature Collection. The CLC is a large, focused collection of 20th & 21st C. avant-garde/’innovative’ poetry in English. It is comprised primarily of published and archival materials but also includes many audio recordings
The Literary Audio Symposium
Digitized spoken-audio archives have proliferated over the past two decades, making a wide range of historically significant analog spoken recordings originally captured in different media formats accessible to listeners and scholars for the first time. Online repositories like PennSound and the Cylinder Archive Project, have begun to transform previously multi-format collections into a massive resource, the potential of which is just beginning to be realized. Still, many local audio archives with recordings that document literary events remain either inaccessible or, if digitized, largely disconnected from each other. Given the potential usefulness of online audio archives for scholars, teachers and the general public, The Literary Audio Symposium aims to explore possibilities around a coordinated and collaborative approach to literary historical study, digital development and critical and pedagogical engagement with diverse collections of spoken recordings.
The Symposium emerges from a joint venture of the AMP Lab and TAG Centre, COHDS: Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and the Concordia University Libraries, all based at Concordia, in collaboration with literary scholars, digital humanists and librarian/archivists from the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and Simon Fraser University, and local community partners with unique analogue holdings. Invited participants include colleagues from McGill U, U Victoria, U Texas, Austin, UCSB, and The Canadian Centre for Architecture.
This symposium will offer a productive scene of discussion and collaboration between academic researchers, librarians and archivists and emerging scholars and students, as well as community-based cultural and literary practitioners. The primary aims of The Literary Audio Symposium are to share knowledge and provide discussion and debate about
1) new forms of historical and critical scholarly engagement with coherent collections of spoken recordings;
2) digital preservation, aggregation techniques, asset management and infrastructure to support sustainable access to diverse collections of archival spoken audio recordings;
3) techniques and tools for searching and visualizing corpora of spoken audio (for features relevant to humanities research and pedagogy); and
4) innovative ways of mobilizing digitized spoken and literary recordings within pedagogical and public contexts.
These objectives will be met through a structured set of keynote topic-organizing panels, tool demonstrations, case-study presentations, and collaborative workshop discussions, led by experts from a variety of relevant backgrounds including Literature, Library, Archives and Information Science, Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Computer Science, and Communications and Media History. Each day of the Symposium will be initiated by a plenary presentation that frames key questions concerning one of the four key symposium themes, to be followed by hands-on presentations of relevant digital platforms and tools, case-study presentations that elaborate upon the day’s theme, followed by collaborative workshop discussion that will debate, reflect upon, and formulate new approaches to engaging with the implications of the day’s materials.
From a range of relevant perspectives, The Literary Audio Symposium will enable the collaborative formulation of answers to core questions surrounding the preservation, digital presentation and critical use of humanities-oriented spoken audio materials, and temporal media holdings of cultural significance, in general. Our work will benefit scholars, students and society by establishing processes for making a generally dispersed corpus of cultural heritage widely available in useful and meaningful ways.
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