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Enhancing Listening in Audio Archives: Close Listening and the SpokenWeb Project

This presentation details the SpokenWeb project at Concordia University, exploring how audio archives can be enhanced for a deeper listening experience. It emphasizes the importance of “close listening,” a practice prevalent among humanists that encourages critical engagement with spoken word and poetry. We will discuss features that facilitate this engagement, like audio transcription tethering, sound visualization, and annotation tools. Highlighting the affinity between music scholars and literary critics, we illustrate the significance of rhythm and language in both fields.

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Enhancing Listening in Audio Archives: Close Listening and the SpokenWeb Project

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  1. Looking at archival sound: enhancing the listening experience in audio archives Jared Wiercinski & Annie Murray Concordia University Libraries Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 25, 2012

  2. Overview • SpokenWeb project • Research on the scholarly process • Close listening • Features that facilitate close listening

  3. Spoken Web Conceptualizing and Prototyping a Comprehensive Web-based Digital Spoken Word Interface for Literary Research

  4. Scholarly Information Activities & PrimitivesPalmer, Teffeau & Pirmann (2009) • Searching • Collecting • Reading • Scanning • Assessing • Re-reading • Note-taking • Writing • Collaborating

  5. Towards close listening • Humanists “deeply engaged in source material rely heavily on browsing, collecting, rereading and notetaking.” • In an audio environment, reading and rereading become listening and relistening • The close reading done by humanists expands to include what Charles Bernstein calls “close listening,” a practice of critical engagement with sounded poems

  6. Poetry and Music Scholars: Affinities • We can link some of the work of music scholars and literary critics • Attentiveness to sounded poetry and sounded music; existence of a written source and a sounded source; versions of works • Awareness of performance practice • Importance of rhythm, metre, prosody, phrasing • Importance of language to both music and poetry

  7. How music scholars listen • Brown (2002) - Straddling the humanities and social sciences: the research process of music scholars • Hunter (2006) – A new breed of musicians: the information-seeking needs and behaviors of composers of electroacoustic music • Liew (2006) – Beyond the notes: a qualitative study of the information-seeking behavior of ethnomusicologists

  8. Previous Work: multimodality of learning & visual features that enhance listening

  9. What features might facilitate close listening? • Tethering audio-playback and written transcript • Sound visualization • Annotation • Playback manipulation

  10. Tethering audio-playback and written transcript: Radiolab

  11. Sound visualization: Soundcloud player

  12. Sound visualization: Mashup Breakdown

  13. Sound visualization & Annotation: Variations Audio Timeliner

  14. Sound visualization: Smithsonian Jazz Mixer

  15. Annotation: Soundcloud

  16. Playback manipulation: Myna

  17.  Listen to the listener.

  18. Contact information: Jared Wiercinskijared.wiercinski@concordia.caAnnie Murrayannie.murray@concordia.ca

  19. Photo credits • Kenneth Goldsmith • R. Murray Schafer “Concerto for Flute & Offernkleide" • Ana Sokolovic • James Dean

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