Best Erica Bowers Podcasts (2024)

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Sound Box Signals Presents – "Sharon Thesen's reading at the Bowerings'" 46:36

2h ago46:36

46:36

Episode Summary This month, the SpokenWeb Podcast is happy to showcase an episode from our sister podcast, the SoundBox Signals Podcast from SpokenWeb at UBC Okanagan. SoundBox Signals is hosted and co-produced by Karis Shearer. In this episode, from Season 2, Episode 1 of the SoundBox Signals Podcast, University of Exeter undergraduates Sofie Drew…

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Alice Heusser: Kitani London 42:22

24d ago42:22

42:22

In Series 5 Episode 2 of Raw Talent, I am joined by Alice Heusser, the Founder & Creative Director of Kitani London. Alice is a dynamic and business-savvy individual focused on achieving results. She possesses a global perspective and an entrepreneurial drive that will shape our discussion as we look at her experience at the helm of two successful …

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Virtual Pilgrimage: Where Medieval Meets Modern 51:52

10d ago51:52

51:52

SUMMARY From medieval itineraries to modern livestreams, Christian pilgrimage is often, if not always experienced through an imaginative transposal from a physical reality to a spiritual truth. In this episode, hosts Lindsay Pereira and Ella Jando-Saul explore the concept of virtual pilgrimage through conversations with two guests: Michael Van Duss…

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Invitation to Sonic Poetry: Demarcations, Repositories, Examples 50:24

1M ago50:24

50:24

SUMMARY In this first episode of Season 6, producer Andrew Whiteman invites listeners to step into an arena of collaboration between poetry and sound. We all know it when we hear it, and we have mixed feelings about it. Why does the archaic meeting place of music and poem hit such a nerve? Is this art form literature or is it music? Surely, it’s no…

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Welcome to Season 6! 4:44

3M ago4:44

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Hold onto your hats, because the SpokenWeb Podcast is back! This season, we'll continue to bring you episodes exploring the archive and the ever-changing landscape of literary sounds with all new stories from researchers across the SpokenWeb network. Subscribe to The SpokenWeb Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. …

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Open Door Listening, with Brandon LaBelle at Errant Bodies Press 21:34

5M ago21:34

21:34

ShortCuts as a series on The SpokenWeb Podcast feed is coming to an end. For the past five seasons, ShortCuts producer Katherine McLeod has been bringing you deep dives into the archives. Through this process, ShortCuts has asked the question of what it means to listen closely and carefully to short ‘cuts’ of audio. ShortCuts has become a sonic spa…

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Sasha Damjanovski: Speaker | Filmmaker | Coach 47:03

5M ago47:03

47:03

We are kicking off Season 5, Episode 1 of Raw Talent with a compelling chat with educator and coach Sasha Damjanovski. Sasha has enjoyed a multifaceted career as an award-winning writer, director and producer in film, TV and theatre, he has also cultivated a career in business communications and as a psychological counselling and CBT coach, as well…

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Algo-Rhythms 42:01

5M ago42:01

42:01

SUMMARY How can artists harness algorithmic processes to generate poetry, music, and dance? And what can we learn from the longer history of creative coding and early experiments in human-computer collaboration? In this live episode recorded during June's 2024 SpokenWeb Symposium, producers Nicholas Beauchesne and Chelsea Miya venture into the root…

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ShortCuts Live! Talking about Listening with Moynan King, Erica Isomura, and Rémy Bocquillon 54:55

6M ago54:55

54:55

SUMMARY In this month’s episode of The SpokenWeb Podcast, ShortCuts is taking over the airwaves. ShortCuts is the monthly minisode that takes you on a deep dive into archival sound through a short ‘cut’ of audio. In this fifth season, ShortCuts producer Katherine McLeod has been presenting a series of live conversations recorded at the 2023 SpokenW…

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ShortCuts Live! Turning Our Bodies Toward Sound with Xiaoxuan Huang 25:58

7M ago25:58

25:58

This month, we’re back with another Shortcuts Live, talking with researchers in person and starting those conversations with a short ‘cut’ of audio. These ShortCuts Live conversations were recorded on-site at the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium held at the University of Alberta. In this conversation, Xiaoxuan Huang talks about hybrid poetics (and more) wi…

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Notes from the Underground: Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll at the Ultimatum Urban Poetry Festival 44:48

6M ago44:48

44:48

For most people, the “poetry reading” conjures stuffy intonation styles, cheap wine in plastic cups, and polite clapping. But for a riotous underground scene in 1980s Montreal, the poetry reading was the site for radical experimentation in artistic performance. At the Ultimatum Urban Poetry Festival, which first took place in 1985, literary all sta…

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Re-Listening to Improvisation in the Archives 7:02

8M ago7:02

7:02

As April is the month of poetry, we’ve taken a pause in this year’s ShortCuts Live conversations to listen back to one of the first episodes of ShortCuts, “ShortCuts 1.2 / Audio of the Month: Improvising at a Poetry Reading.” In the archival clip played in this episode, we hear Maxine Gadd pausing during a reading with Andreas Schroeder. She asks A…

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They Do the Police in Different Voices: Computational Analysis of Digitized Performances of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land 41:32

9M ago41:32

41:32

T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land is arguably not a poem at all. To some readers and critics, it’s more like a play: a collection of voices thrown together without quotation marks or speaker tags. That’s how Eliot himself saw it; his working title was He Do the Police in Different Voices. The work comes alive in performance, where each reader must …

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ShortCuts Live! Listening to Wide-Screen Radio with Brian Fauteux 15:02

9M ago15:02

15:02

This ShortCuts presents one of the ShortCuts Live! conversations recorded at the University of Alberta as part of the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium. Recorded on site by SpokenWeb’s Kate Moffatt and Miranda Eastwood, the conversations often took place in spaces where the sonic environment of the symposium is audibly present. As always on ShortCuts, we be…

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“Two girls recording literature”: Re-listening to Caedmon recordings 1:02:57

9M ago1:02:57

1:02:57

In February 1952, Barbara (Cohen) Holdridge and Marianne (Roney) Mantell, two recent graduates of Hunter college, founded Caedmon records, the first label devoted to recording spoken word. In this episode, producers Michelle Levy and Maya Schwartz revisit the early history of Caedmon records. They pay tribute to Holdridge and Mantell by re-listenin…

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Getting Lit with Linda Presents: The Languages & Sounds That Are Home: Kaie Kellough's Magnetic Equator 24:51

1y ago24:51

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In this crossover episode (Episode 7, Season 2), Linda begins with the sound of her father's old espresso machine, to explain how she sees -- or hears -- sound working in Magnetic Equator (published by McClelland & Stewart) by international poet, novelist, and sound performer Kaie Kellough. You can hear a sample of his sound poetry here. This episo…

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ShortCuts Live! A Magical Audio Tour with Jennifer Waits 18:20

1y ago18:20

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This ShortCuts presents the first of many conversations recorded at the University of Alberta as part of the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium. Recorded on site by SpokenWeb’s Kate Moffatt and Miranda Eastwood, the conversations often took place in spaces where the sonic environment of the symposium is audibly present. As always on ShortCuts, we begin with …

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Listening in Uncertainty 45:22

1y ago45:22

45:22

This episode navigates this question using an associative method which links stories and sounds, forming a non-linear audio collage. Listeners are invited to tune in to their affective and embodied responses to end time stories including Lulu Miller’s podcast and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror film, and stories of endurance, with Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s …

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Introducing ShortCuts, Live! 8:24

1y ago8:24

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Welcome to Season 5 of ShortCuts. ShortCuts started out on the podcast feed as a ‘minisode’ during our first season and it soon took on a life of its own. ShortCuts host and producer Katherine McLeod would take you on a deep dive into the SpokenWeb archives through a short ‘cut’ of audio. What did it feel like to hear archival audio? And how could …

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As It Is or As It Was: Translating “The Ruin” Poem 49:31

1y ago49:31

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Ghislaine Comeau is a PhD student in the English department at Concordia University. Her SSHRC funded doctoral project, inspired by the recent Global Middle Ages movement, focuses on re-examining texts from the early medieval period to further investigate direct references and allusions to “Saracens.” In addition to her more “traditional” approache…

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Welcome to Season 5! 2:47

1y ago2:47

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The SpokenWeb Podcast is back for another season as we continue our quest to uncover "what literature sounds like." With a whole new line-up of episodes created by researchers across the SpokenWeb network, we’ll explore the sounds of translation, the act of uncertain listening, audio pedagogy, the intersection of computing, voice, and poetics, and …

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The Serendipitous Headlight 24 39:34

1+ y ago39:34

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SUMMARY “Though staff turnaround is a challenge for student-run publications, community support remains when people love it. Let’s revive the love for Headlight.” This was the sign-off of an application for managing editor for Headlight, Concordia University’s graduate student-run literary journal. Carlos A. Pittella’s application was accepted shor…

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What’s that noise? Listening Queerly to the Ultimatum Festival Archives 20:50

1+ y ago20:50

20:50

SUMMARY Have you ever heard a sound on a recording and weren’t sure if it was intentional? That’s what happened to the Listening Queerly research team when they were listening to a recording of the Ultimatum Festival (Montreal, 1985). This team works under the direction of Dr. Mathieu Aubin as part of a SSHRC-funded Insight Development Grant. They’…

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Ambient Connection: The Sounds of Public Library Spaces 48:40

1+ y ago48:40

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During the Covid pandemic, before she had ever set foot in a classroom dedicated to learning about libraries, Maia Trotter discovered a YouTube video titled "Library Ambiance." This video didn't contain the typically fabricated sounds of a library that someone had layered over each other like book pages turning and a fireplace crackling in the back…

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Audiobooks in the Classroom 54:51

1+ y ago54:51

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What does it mean to “read” an audiobook? What happens when we think about the audiobook pedagogically? Featuring a round-table conversation with graduate students at Concordia University and an interview with Dr. Jentery Sayers from the University of Victoria, this episode by Dr. Michelle Levy and SFU graduate student Maya Schwartz thinks through …

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ShortCuts Live! Talking with Annie Murray 19:16

1+ y ago19:16

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SUMMARY This month, ShortCuts presents another ShortCuts Live! Producer Katherine McLeod talks with Annie Murray about the EMI Music Canada Archives at the University of Calgary, and their way into these archives begins with a cassette tape. And not just any cassette tape. Listen to find out which tape and why this tape unfurls a story of recording…

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Revisiting "Mountain Many Voices: The Archival Sounds of Fred Wah" 39:47

1+ y ago39:47

39:47

In the summer of 2022, research assistants Don Shipton and Teddie Brock took part in a roundtable discussion that explored the archival work of student researchers involved with the audio archives of Canadian poet, Fred Wah. Alongside his literary and academic work, Wah has had a longstanding practice of recording poetry readings, lectures, and con…

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ShortCuts Live! Talking with Ariel Kroon, Nick Beauchesne, and Chelsea Miya 17:44

1+ y ago17:44

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SUMMARY This month, ShortCuts presents another ShortCuts Live! It is a conversation with Ariel Kroon, Nick Beauchesne, and Chelsea Miya about their collaboration in producing “Academics on Air” (May 2022) for The SpokenWeb Podcast. That episode became a paper that Ariel, Nick, and Chelsea co-presented at the 2022 SpokenWeb Symposium and Institute. …

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The Affordances of Sound 53:54

2y ago53:54

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What is sound design? This is the question Miranda Eastwood, current Sound Designer of The SpokenWeb Podcast, is looking to find out. Exploring soundscapes of all shapes and forms, Miranda draws from interviews with friends, colleagues, and academics, as well as Caroline Levine’s Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network to tackle this particularly …

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ShortCuts Live! Talking with Faith Paré about the Atwater Poetry Project Archives 26:52

2y ago26:52

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SUMMARY This month, ShortCuts presents another episode of ShortCuts Live! This month’s episode was recorded as a live conversation on Zoom with the current curator of the Atwater Poetry Project, Faith Paré. As a former SpokenWeb undergraduate RA, Faith’s SpokenWeb contributions have included editorial and curatorial work on Desire Lines; an intervi…

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Genuine Conversation 53:07

2y ago53:07

53:07

What makes a genuine conversation? And why is it so difficult to have one? Frances Grace Fyfe is on a quest to find out. This madcap talk therapy session has the SpokenWeb RA consider the literary concept of the dialogue, the verbatim transcription of speech in writing (through an exploration of—what else?—Charles Dickens’s early forays in court st…

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Drum Codes [Part 2]: Sounds of Data 50:41

2y ago50:41

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Audio technology and audio data come in radically different forms. This month's episode, "Sounds of Data" is a follow up to Season Two’s “Drum Codes” and takes us deeper into the sonic world of data: from the sounds of surveillance to music of the stars to the wireless transmission of drum songs. Featuring interviews with sound artist and poet Oana…

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ShortCuts Live! Talking with Sarah Cipes about Feminist Audio Editing 20:48

2y ago20:48

20:48

This month, it is ShortCuts Live! We’ll still take a deep dive into the SpokenWeb archives through a short ‘cut’ of audio, but, in these ShortCuts Live! episodes, ShortCuts host and producer Katherine McLeod takes ShortCuts out of the archives and into the world. This month’s episode was recorded on-site at the SpokenWeb Symposium and Sound Institu…

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The Night of the Living Archive 49:16

2y ago49:16

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“The Night of the Living Archive” is an audio drama/mock interview between research assistant Liza Makarova and Fred Wah’s poems Mountain (1967), Limestone Lakes Utaniki (1987, 1989, and 1991), and Don’t Cut Me Down (1972), which currently live in the Fred Wah Digital Archive (fredwah.ca). Poems within the archive are independent documents that liv…

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Archival Listening 10:28

2y ago10:28

10:28

A fresh take on sounds from the past, ShortCuts is a monthly feature on The SpokenWeb Podcast feed and an extension of the ShortCuts blog posts on SPOKENWEBLOG. Stay tuned for monthly episodes of ShortCuts on alternate fortnights (that’s every second week) following the monthly SpokenWeb podcast episode. If you are a SpokenWeb RA with an archival c…

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Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley 1:00:33

2y ago1:00:33

1:00:33

This month, the SpokenWeb Podcast features an episode created by our former supervising producer and project manager Judith Burr. This audio is part of Judith’s podcast, “Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley,” which she produced as her master’s thesis at UBC-Okanagan. While Judith was working on The SpokenWeb Podcast, she …

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Welcome to Season 4! 3:37

2y ago3:37

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Hello and welcome to another season of The SpokenWeb Podcast! We’re back with a new line-up of exciting episodes created by researchers across the SpokenWeb network. The SpokenWeb Podcast asks, “What does literature sound like? What stories do we hear when we listen to the archive?” In this season, we have episodes that dive into the lives of archi…

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The WPHP Monthly Mercury Presents "Collected, Catalogued, Counted" 1:23:32

2+ y ago1:23:32

1:23:32

The WPHP Monthly Mercury is the podcast of the Women's Print History Project, a digital bibliographical database that recovers and discovers women’s print history for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. Inspired by the titles of periodicals of the period, The WPHP Monthly Mercury investigates women’s work as authors and labourers in the book …

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[Replay] Moving, Still 18:49

2+ y ago18:49

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SUMMARY Episode 10 of the SpokenWeb Podcast – “starry and full of glory”: Phyllis Webb, in Memoriam (produced by Stephen Collis) – is a moving commemoration of the life and work of Canadian poet Phyllis Webb. Along with archival clips, the episode features conversations with two poets – Isabella Wang and Fred Wah – in which they talk about an unpub…

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"starry and full of glory": Phyllis Webb, in Memoriam 49:26

2+ y ago49:26

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This episode is a commemoration of the life and work of Canadian poet Phyllis Webb (1927-2021). Drawing upon archival recordings of Webb’s readings, poet Stephen Collis, a friend of Webb’s, charts a path through the poet’s work by following the “stars” frequently referred to in her poetry—from the 1950s through the 1980s. Included in the podcast ar…

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Re-Situating Sound 16:58

2+ y ago16:58

16:58

SUMMARY In the making of ShortCuts, series producer Katherine McLeod often talks about how recorded sound is held not only within archives but also by the work of contextualizing whenever one selects an archival audio clip and presses play. Returning to an audio recording of Dionne Brand played in ShortCuts 2.9 “Situating Sound” (June 2021), Kather…

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Talking Transcription: Accessibility, Collaboration, and Creativity 1:04:22

2+ y ago1:04:22

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Transcriptions of podcasts provide visual renderings of audio that increase accessibility. But what are the best practices for transcribing a podcast, specifically a podcast about literary audio? In this episode, Katherine McLeod of ShortCuts and Kelly Cubbon, transcriber of The SpokenWeb Podcast, explore the role of transcription in the making of …

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The Event 22:55

2+ y ago22:55

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SUMMARY This month, ShortCuts will be released on the first day of the 2022 SpokenWeb Symposium. Diving into a recording that concluded last year’s symposium, producer Katherine McLeod plays excerpts from Oana Avasilichioaei’s live performance of “Chambersonic (IV)” and Klara du Plessis’s reading of “Post-Mortem of the Event.” What is the sound of …

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Academics on Air 50:55

2+ y ago50:55

50:55

In the early 1980s, the University of Alberta funded a series of experimental literary radio programs, which were broadcast across the province on the CKUA community radio network. At the time, CKUA station had just been resurrected through a deal with ACCESS and was eager for educational programming. Enter host and producer Jars Balan – then a mas…

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Katrina Armitage: Fashion Desk UK 59:13

2+ y ago59:13

59:13

In Series 4 Episode 9 of Raw Talent, I am speaking with Katrina Armitage who is the vision behind Fashion Desk UK an initiative she has set up inspired by the needs of brands in today's fashion industry reinforced by 26+ years in the business. Fashion Desk UK facilitates and supports retailers and brands in relocating some of their manufacturing to…

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Moving, Still 17:17

2+ y ago17:17

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SUMMARY In this episode, ShortCuts returns to a recording of Phyllis Webb in order to re-listen through this season’s question of how the archive remembers. What is held in the ‘room’ of the recording, and how does that differ from the room where reading took place? Or from the room of personal memory? What exceeds those rooms? And what does it fee…

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'The archive is messy and so are we': Decoding the Women and Words Collection 46:15

2+ y ago46:15

46:15

Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books holds the rich Women and Words Collection, which contains more than one hundred recordings from the Women and Words Conference in 1983, a decade of WestWord writing retreats and workshops, and a number of other readings, meetings, workshops, and events. Although the audio in this collecti…

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Listening Communities: The Introductions of Douglas Barbour 22:28

2+ y ago22:28

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Our guest-producer this month, Michael O’Driscoll, invites us to listen to the introductions of the late Douglas Barbour (March 21, 1940 - Sept 25, 2021) from readings held at the University of Alberta. What are we listening to when we hear introductory remarks from past readings spliced together? By asking us to listen to remember, this episode re…

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Listening, Sound, Agency: A Retrospective Listening to the 2021 SpokenWeb Symposium 51:44

3y ago51:44

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This is a mixed format episode presenting SpokenWeb members Mathieu Aubin and Stéphanie Ricci’s critical commentary after taking part in the organization of and attending the Listening, Sound, Agency Symposium. Bridging techniques from journalism and oral history, this episode includes sounds from the conference, interviews, and critically reflecti…

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The Voice That Is The Poem, ft. Kaie Kellough 20:06

3y ago20:06

20:06

On ShortCuts this month, producer Katherine McLeod talks with poet, novelist, and sound performer Kaie Kellough about a memorable recording from The Words & Music Show. What are we listening to? Kellough upacks what we are listening to — which turns out to be a highly technical, performative, and polyphonic sonic object, along with it being an earl…

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