The SpokenWeb Podcast

The SpokenWeb Podcast

SpokenWeb
Държава Канада
Език EN
Епизоди 107
Последен 16.02.2026

The SpokenWeb Podcast is a monthly show exploring the intersections of sound, poetry, literature, and history. It features stories created by scholars, poets, students, and artists from across Canada, highlighting the rich audio archives and literary sound recordings preserved by the SpokenWeb project. Each episode offers a unique perspective on how sound and literary culture intertwine, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the acoustic dimensions of literature and history.

Епизоди

  • Concluding the SpokenWeb Podcast : Introducing the Literary Listening Podcast 16.02.2026 24мин
    In this episode, producer Maia Harris and co-host Emily Stuchbery say goodbye to The SpokenWeb Podcast and introduce the all new Literary Listening Podcast.
  • The SpokenWeb Symposia Retrospective: Celebrating Sound Studies 04.08.2025 1ч 3мин
    This "farewell" podcast episode was recorded live at the SpokenWeb Institute on May 17, 2025, at the University of British Columbia Okanagan campus, Kelowna, BC. Producers Nick Beauchesne and Chelsea Miya, with host Maia Harris, lead an audio-visual journey exploring the roots and evolution of SpokenWeb's Symposia and Institutes from 2019 through 2025.
  • Recording Without a Trace: The Forgotten Legacy of Kurtis Vanel 07.07.2025 23мин
    In this episode, producer Garin Falman reflects on the life of Kurtis Vanel.
  • Listening on the Radio 16.06.2025 1ч 3мин
    Sonic Lit: A SpokenWeb Radio Show is a bi-weekly radio show on CJLO, the campus radio station of Concordia University (Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada). Based on this project, Katherine McLeod and Jason Camlot produced this audio, "Listening on the Radio," as a radio-show-as-podcast-episode to answer questions about Canadian talk radio, podcasting, listening, and literature as audio – out loud.
  • Sound & Seconds: A Roundtable on Timestamping for Literary Archives 20.05.2025 57мин
    How does timestamping shape the preservation and curation of literary sound? This roundtable episode brings together four SpokenWeb researchers––Jason Camlot, Tanya Clement, and Mike O’Driscoll in conversation with moderator Michael MacKenzie––to explore this deceptively simple yet profoundly complex question. What emerges is a layered, multidisciplinary view of timestamping, not just as a technical task, but as an archival, aesthetic, and philosophical practice.
  • Sounding New Sonic Approaches – A Podcast of A Live Recording Session of A Journal Issue Located in Multiple Spaces and Temporal Dimensions 10.03.2025 58мин
    This podcast episode performs a sound-media meditation on a live event launching the triple-issue of English Studies in Canada (ESC)'s “New Sonic Approaches in Literary Studies” in May 2023.
  • From Me to You, A Sonic Glimpse at Proprioception 03.02.2025 44мин
    A proprioception-enthusiast and a thespian walk into a podcast booth. Together, they engage with scholars from three different fields outside of those traditionally working with and through the sense of proprioception.
  • Sound Box Signals Presents – "Sharon Thesen's reading at the Bowerings'" 02.12.2024 46мин
    In this episode, from Season 2, Episode 1 of the SoundBox Signals Podcast, University of Exeter undergraduates Sofie Drew and Emily Chircop carry out a close listening of a 1980 recording of Sharon Thesen reading.
  • Virtual Pilgrimage: Where Medieval Meets Modern 04.11.2024 51мин
    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 Dussen and Simon Coleman.
  • Invitation to Sonic Poetry: Demarcations, Repositories, Examples 07.10.2024 50мин
    Andrew Whiteman invites listeners to step into an arena of collaboration between poetry and sound.
  • Welcome to Season 6! 16.09.2024 4мин
    The SpokenWeb Podcast is back for season 6!
  • Open Door Listening, with Brandon LaBelle at Errant Bodies Press 29.07.2024 21мин
    For this final ShortCuts, we listen with Brandon LaBelle in a conversation recorded on-site at Errant Bodies Press in Berlin.
  • Algo-Rhythms 01.07.2024 42мин
    In this live episode recorded during June's 2024 SpokenWeb Symposium, producers Nicholas Beauchesne and Chelsea Miya venture into the roots and future directions of algorithmic art.
  • ShortCuts Live! Talking about Listening with Moynan King, Erica Isomura, and Rémy Bocquillon 03.06.2024 54мин
    In this month’s episode of The SpokenWeb Podcast, ShortCuts is taking over the airwaves with a special edition episode.
  • ShortCuts Live! Turning Our Bodies Toward Sound with Xiaoxuan Huang 20.05.2024 25мин
    In this conversation, Xiaoxuan Huang talks about hybrid poetics (and more) with then-supervising producer Kate Moffatt.
  • Notes from the Underground: Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll at the Ultimatum Urban Poetry Festival 06.05.2024 44мин
    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
  • Re-Listening to Improvisation in the Archives 24.04.2024 7мин
    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.
  • They Do the Police in Different Voices: Computational Analysis of Digitized Performances of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land 01.04.2024 41мин
    In this podcast, Adam Hammond asks if computers can help us to decide which readers are best at “doing” the voices in T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land.
  • ShortCuts Live! Listening to Wide-Screen Radio with Brian Fauteux 18.03.2024 15мин
    This ShortCuts presents one of the ShortCuts Live! conversations recorded at the University of Alberta as part of the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium. What will we hear? And where will these sounds take us?
  • “Two girls recording literature”: Re-listening to Caedmon recordings 04.03.2024 1ч 2мин
    Michelle Levy and Maya Schwartz revisit the early history of Caedmon records.