Audio Archives - AVAnnotate

A grid of four black-and-white photographs showing a man in a suit and tie seated at a desk with a clipboard, pen, cigarettes, and a glass of water. He is captured in different conversational poses: looking left while speaking, gesturing with his hand, listening thoughtfully with a finger to his lip, and smiling while holding his pen.

Re-Sounding Poetries: Collections, Classrooms, Communities

This AVAnnotate project explores the final annual Sound Institute of the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership, Re-Sounding Poetries: Collections, Classrooms, Communities, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, in Kelowna, in May 2025. Over four days, poets, professors, archivists, artists, librarians, and researchers participated in a “summer camp” of immersive literary-audio activities. During the SpokenWeb Collections Showcase—where each […]

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John Beecher and the McComb “Criminal Syndicalism” Case

This project (originally created by Bethany Radcliff and Kylie Warkentin in 2021; updated and revised by Kylie Warkentin in 2025) serves as an educational example of working with and annotating sensitive audio using the “‘Criminal Syndicalism’ Case, McComb, Mississippi (Side 1)” recording from the John Beecher Sound Recordings Collection at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. In this

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A poster or program cover for "A Symposium on Contemporary Art and Literature of Latin America." The center features large, angled, bold purple text that reads "Speak-Out! !Charla! Bate-Papo!". Additional smaller text notes the dates "October 27-29, 1975," lists various university sponsors, and provides the location at the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center in Texas.

Speak-Out! Symposium Collection

The Speak Out! Symposium AVAnnotate site, developed at the LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Lab by Rebekah Ramos and Ash Catalan, presents a digital edition of the 1975 UT Austin symposium “Speak-Out! Charla! Bate-Papo! Contemporary Art and Literature in Latin America.” It features time-coded recordings of panels held over three days, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese,

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Harvard 1953 Summer Conference on “The Contemporary Novel”

The “Harvard 1953 Summer Conference on the Contemporary Novel” AVAnnotate project, created by Professor Tanya Clement, is a digital collection of audio recordings and transcripts from the “The Contemporary Novel” conference held at Harvard University in 1953. The site offers annotated, time-stamped sessions featuring writers, critics, and editors such as Ralph Ellison, Georges Simenon, Stanley

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A graphic featuring a background of an abstract watercolor painting with overlapping, colorful geometric and curved shapes in warm tones. Overlaid on the art is bold, black serif text that reads: "Literary Sound Studies Anthology," "English 483," "Winter 2025 - University of Alberta," and "Dr. Michael O'Driscoll, Sam Turner."

Literary Sound Studies Anthology: English 483, University of Alberta

“Literary Sound Studies: English 483 Class Anthology” is a student-created AVAnnotate project in collaboration with Sam Turner that compiles course projects into a public anthology. It focuses on how literature is performed and heard, using time-coded annotations to analyze voice, rhythm, silence, and audience in recordings of poems and performances. The variety is striking: students

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An evening street scene featuring the Yara cinema in Havana, Cuba. The theater has a prominent red corrugated facade with "YARA" in bright neon letters above a brightly lit entrance and marquee. A blurred car streaks across the dark foreground street. In the background looms a tall white high-rise building with "habana libre" on the roof, alongside another building adorned with a blue and white abstract mural.

Cuba en Pantalla

The project “Cuba en Pantalla” was created by Jack Riordan and draws on his experience taking the “Curso de Cine Cubano” at the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) in the fall of 2019. The project explores Cuban history, identity, and social imaginaries through a curated selection of films spanning from the 1960s

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A graphic featuring an orange background with concentric white lines forming the shape of a file folder. In the center, bold, black, hand-lettered text reads "THE LAST ARCHIVE," and the word "PUSHKIN" is written in the bottom right corner.

Annotating “The Last Archive”

Originally authored by Ali Gunnells and edited by Sam Turner, this project is the culmination of an independent study conducted under the supervision of Dr. Tanya Clement during the summer of 2022. The project explores how archival rhetorics are employed in contemporary podcasting through an analysis of Jill Lepore’s podcast The Last Archive. In the

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A black and white photograph of a large street protest where a massive crowd is marching down a city street. Protesters are holding large banners with French text, including one that reads "TRAVAILLEURS D'I.T.T. SOLIDAIRES DES CHILIENS" and another linking Giscard to Pinochet.

Latin American Press Review Radio Collection

As part of the Latin American Programs of the Longhorn Radio Network, the Latin American Press Review radio program covered all of Latin America and the Caribbean, airing from 1973 to 1974. Divided into two segments, each program began with a news segment that highlighted a variety of reports from across Latin America, while the

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Annotating Adler: Identity and Embodiment in the Stella Adler Collection

This project by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth contextualizes recently digitized video from the Stella Adler and Harold Clurman Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. The eleven digitized videos, provided to the public by The Ransom Center, show Adler teaching at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting between 1969 and 1980 as well as being interviewed by Bob

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A daytime street view of East Austin with cars parked along a road lined with local businesses like "Austin Body Works" and "The Brixton." The downtown Austin skyline, featuring high-rise buildings including the Omni Hotel, rises in the background under a clear blue sky.

RHE 306 Anthology

This is an anthology of AVAnnotate projects developed for RHE 306: Rhetoric and Writing. For this project, students were asked to think about how arguments about gentrification function differently in digital spaces—through sound, image, and voice. Using AVAnnotate, they produced original audio or video compositions paired with annotations and a transcript that examine the rhetorical

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