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10056
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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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Series Title:
SpokenWeb Events
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
SpokenWeb Events AV, Radical Voices and Sonic Memories and Improvising Language, SpokenWeb Symposium 2022: The Sound of Literature in Time, 17 May 2022
Title Source:
SpokenWeb web page
Title Note:
https://spokenweb.ca/symposia/#/spokenweb-symposium-2022
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
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[]
Rights
Rights:
Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA)
License:
Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA)
CREATORS
Name:
Jason Camlot
Dates:
1967-
Name:
Xiaoxuan Huang
Name:
Annie Murray
Name:
Michael O’Driscoll
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Sophia Magliocca
Name:
Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Name:
Kyle Kinaschuk
Name:
Effy Morris
Name:
Linara Kolosov
Name:
Sarah Cipes
Name:
Megan Stein
Name:
Thade Correa
Name:
Donald Shipton
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Duration:
03:48:16
Size:
768,180,704 bytes
Notes:
MP4 video
Title:
2022-05-17 SpokenWeb Symposium 2022 - Day Two
Content Type:
Video Recording
Dates
Date:
2022-05-17
Type:
Performance Date
LOCATION
Address:
1400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve O, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8
Venue:
Concordia University McConnell Building
Latitude:
45.4968036
Longitude:
-73.57792786
CONTENT
Contents:
The SpokenWeb Research Network (www.spokenweb.ca) is excited to host an in-person and virtual graduate student symposium (academic conference) at Concordia University in Montreal, 16-17 May 2022, on the theme of “The Sound of Literature in Time.”
Introduction to Theme: The concepts of sound, time and literature evoke a wide range of research questions when considered in relation to each other. Together, they may suggest questions about how sound has been represented in literary works from different historical periods, how time has structured the way literary works sound (as with poetic metre), how readings and recitations sound literature across a span of time, and how time is sounded in different literary cultures and communities. Explorations of non-Western temporal frameworks, as in Mark Rifkin’s Beyond Settler Time, and a recent special issue on Black Temporality in Times of Crisis edited by Badia Ahad and Habiba Ibrahim, for example, reveal diverse meanings of temporality across cultures. As a concept, sound is always moving through time, and so, descriptions of sound involve the description of time in motion. Even a piece of sound (a sound ‘bite’) must be in motion to be audibly perceptible. As Don Ihde, in his explorations of sound phenomenology observes, “[i]insofar as all sounds are also ‘events,’ all the sounds are within the first approximation, likely to be considered as ‘moving.’” Without motion, sound is rendered silent. This is especially evident in sounds that have been recorded on time-based audio recording media which suggest the possibility of capturing real historical time in mediated form. Media theorists have noticed how the real-time quality of recorded sound, that it puts us into time that has already passed and opens a tunnel connection with the past, triggers what Wolfgang Ernst has called “the drama of time critical media.” An encounter with a recorded sound develops as an experience of real time processing. It gives the listener the sense that the temporal process one hears is living in the present, replicating the live sonic event, of which it is apparently a real-time reproduction. Sound recording works on human perception itself, and on our perception of time. Other sound scholars have noted how the temporal qualities of sound immediately raise questions of historical context. For example, Pierre Schaeffer describes a “sound object” as “something that occurs in a certain place during a particular interval of time” for which questions of “context” apply. Friedrich Kittler’s work on literature and media has insisted that sound recording technology has had a transformative impact upon our relationship to the past. Time itself becomes a variable to be manipulated with technological media (you can speed up, slow down, reverse the direction of the record) suggesting that our capacity to manipulate the media artifact not only enables us to process historical “real time” so that it is experienced as a temporal event in the present, but to transform historical “real time” into events of alternate temporal orders, as well. Most recently, Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne have explored the history of listening to literature at accelerated speeds by blind audiobook readers, and the technological history of time shifting in speech-oriented sound media. When we are talking about sound, time, and literature, we are considering the intervolved relationship of something we identify as a literary artifact as a kind of event that suggests possibilities of playing, replaying and creating history.
Radical Voices
Chair: Jason Camlot (Concordia U) and Xiaoxuan Huang (UBCO)
Sophia, Magliocca [IP] (Concordia) “Discovering Sexual Agency in Caroline Bergvall’s Goan Atom: Linguistic and Bodily Mutation”
Shazia Hafiz Ramji [V] (U of Calgary) and Kyle Kinaschuk [V] (U of Toronto), “Sounding the Wind: Acoustic Kinships in Disappearing Moon Cafe”
Effy Morris [IP] (Concordia), “Tone As Tonus: (Un)grammaring Ontology With Kamau Brathwaite’s Nation Language”
Sonic Memories
Chair: Annie Murray
Linara Kolosov [V] (SFU), “Sixty years of Readings in BC: Access to Memory (AtoM) of the largest SFU sound collection”
Sarah Cipes [IP] (UBCO), “Finding Due Balance: Finding Due Balance: Sound Editing as a Feminist Practice in Literary Archives”
Improvising Language
Chair: Michael O’Driscoll
Megan Stein [IP] (Concordia), “Tender Records”
Thade Correa [IP] (Indiana), “Speech is a Mouth”: Notes on the Musical / Experientialist Poetics of Robert Creeley
Donald Shipton [IP] (SFU), “A Night Out of Synch”: Listening and Performance in bpNichol’s “Hour 15”
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