CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
10041
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Title:
SpokenWeb AV
Source Collection ID:
ArchiveOfThePresent
Source Collection Description:
SpokenWeb Audio Visual Collection
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SpokenWeb
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
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 3 Digital Audio Tools: Sound Searching and Visualization Panel II, The Literary Audio Symposium, 4 December 2016
Title Source:
https://spokenweb.ca/symposia/#/literary-audio-symposium
Language:
English
Production Context:
Classroom recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
CREATORS
Name:
Jason Camlot
Dates:
1967-
Name:
Ian Ferrier
Dates:
1954-
Name:
Louis Rastelli
Dates:
1969-
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
01:51:38
Size:
267,929,600 bytes
Notes:
MP3 audio
Title:
LS102521
Content Type:
Sound Recording
Dates
Date:
2016-12-04
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:
IAN FERRIER (Wired on Words)
“The Wired on Words Analogue Audio Collection”
After curating a spoken word poetry series for over fifteen years, and recording each and every reading and performance over that period, what to we do with the boxes of cassette tapes, mini discs, DAT tapes, and digital audio files on USB that comprise the the collection of audio that documents the events of the series? Ian Ferrier will discuss the nature and significance of the documentation of the Wired on Words reading series that he has curated since 2000, and present his organizations collection as a case study for considering the different kinds of digital development one might take in rendering such a historical series accessible and usable by researchers, artists and the wider public.
Ian Ferrier is a pioneer in Canada’s spoken word poetry scene. A musician and composer as well as a poet, he currently tours Canada, the States and Europe in solo performance and with the spoken word/music/dance company For Body and Light. He is a founder of the spoken word and music label Wired on Words, curator and host of Montreal’s monthly Words & Music Show which has been presenting poets monthly since 2000, and director of the annual Mile End Poets Festival which started in 2009. essays have appeared in Journal of the Americas and Canadian Theatre Review as well as in the online Canadian Review of Literature in Performance (LITLIVE.CA), a journal he co-founded in 2009. He has taught at the Banff Centre and is a past-president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. In 2011 he was the recipient of what is now the League of Canadian Poets’ Golden Beret Award for outstanding contributions to spoken word.
LOUIS RASTELLI (Archive Montreal)
“The Audio Materials of Archive Montreal”
This contribution will present the audio collection held by the non-profit community organization Archive Montreal, which consists of thousands of hours of audio materials relevant to community cultural activities in Montreal from the 1950s to the present in a wide range of formats ranging from wire recordings, reel tape, cassettes, acetates, vinyl, DAT tapes, minidiscs, CDs, etc. How should such a collection be catalogued, digitized and presented online for use in research and community activities? What audiences may such a community-developed collection serve, and how might this collection be enhanced through collaborative efforts around digital preservation platforms and collection aggregation with other kinds of institutions, for example, universities? These are the questions we will seek to explore in bringing forward the ARCMTL materials as a case study for consideration at The Literary Audio Symposium.
Louis Rastelli is the founding director of Archive Montreal (ARCMTL), a non-profit community archive centre which serves as a valuable reference for researchers and provides material for use in exhibits and projects touching on Montreal culture and history. Archive Montreal’s preservation activities involve the ongoing acquisition of independently produced local cultural artifacts and publications in multiple formats. Deeply involved in numerous community outreach activities, including the distroboto art dissemination programme, Expozine: Montreal’s largest annual small press fair, and a weekly Archive Montreal radio show, on which audio content from the archive is played, ARCMTL’s participation will bring extensive experience in the development of a community-focused archive and will contribute not only to discussion of the digital development of ARCMTL’s holdings, but to questions of audience and use of the kinds of archival materials.
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.
NOTES
RELATED WORKS