How are we listening, now? Signal, Noise, Silence

SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us, let us know! Rate us and leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or say hi on our social media @SpokenWebCanada.

Episode Producers:

Jason Camlot’s critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings (Stanford 2019), Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic (Routledge 2008), and the co-edited collections, CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Katherine McLeod, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019) and Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule 2007).  He is also the author of four collections of poetry, Attention All Typewriters, The Animal Library, The Debaucher, and What the World Said. He is the principal investigator and director of The SpokenWeb. He is Professor of English and Tier I Concordia University Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia U in Montreal.

Katherine McLeod researches Canadian literature through sound, performance, and archives. She has co-edited CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (with Jason Camlot, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019). Currently, she is writing a monograph on archival recordings of women poets reading on CBC Radio. She began this research as a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow (TransCanada Institute, U of Guelph) and then as a SpokenWeb Postdoctoral Fellow (Concordia). She received her doctorate from the University of Toronto. Katherine explores the intersection of dance and poetry in her own creative practice, along with curating SpokenWeb’s Audio of the Week, the Audio of the Month for The SpokenWeb Podcast, and Where Poets Read, a listing of Montreal poetry readings. 

Interviewees and Voices Heard:

Oana Avasilichioaei, Ali Barillaro, Sadie Barker, Arjun Basu, Naomi Charron, Alexei Perry Cox, Nisha Coleman, Klara du Plessis, Ian Ferrier , Priscilla Joly, Rob McLennan, Heather Pepper, Lindsay Presswell, Deanna Radford, Kian Vaziri-Tehrani, Brian Vass, Isabella Wang, Alvaro Echánove, Marlene Oeffinger

Print References

Dolar, Mladen.  A Voice and Nothing More. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

Labelle, Brandon.  "Auditory Relations."  In Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art.  New York: Continuum, ix-xvi.

Peters, John Durham.  Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Petriglieri, Gianpiero.  Twitter Post. April 3, 2020, 7:43 PM. https://twitter.com/gpetriglieri/status/1246221849018720256

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.  London, UK: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Schafer, R. Murray.  The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World.  Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1994.

"Sounds from the global Covid-19 lockdown." Cities and Memory. https://citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds/

Poetry Recordings

Antin, David.  "The Principle of Fit, II" (Part I). 26.:32. June 1980. Recording at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. PennSound. https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Antin/Antin-David_The-Principle-of-Fit-II-Side-A_DC_06-80.mp3

Cox, Alexei Perry. Poems from Finding Places to Make Places. 42:39. The Words & Music Show, March 22, 2020. 

Coleman, Nisha. "The Church of Harvey Christ." 40:53. The Words & Music Show, March, 22 2020. 

Plath, Sylvia. "Daddy." Originally released on The Poet Speaks, Record 5, Argo, 1965. YouTube audio. 3:56. Posted December 29, 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM

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Find a list of Ambient Sounds, Music and Additional Recordings used in this episode Linked Here.