Audio Production Training
2023
Fall 2023 cohort (from left to right): Cheyanne Connell, Sam Channell, Cate Ngieng, Alex Bryant. Image credit: Lilith Charlet.
Funded by the Grant for Catalyzing Research Clusters (GCRC) through the Office of the Vice President for Research Innovation at UBC, CEDaR and the Relational Technologies Research Cluster provided an audio production training opportunity for UBC graduate students and community partners in two cohorts: Summer and Fall 2023.
The multi-session training, facilitated by UBC MA Anthropology student and podcast producer Lilith Charlet, reflected on the use of audio productions (podcasts, new media works, soundscapes, documentaries, etc.) in the context of community-based research and knowledge mobilization.
Participants were provided with a prompt during the first session, on which they worked throughout the rest of the training to produce a short audio piece, gaining an introduction to the skills involved in producing a podcast/audio piece, from planning and content creation to recording and editing.
Listen to their audio creations below.
Summer cohort
Dear Ḵ̕wa̱layu
Arynn King, Director, Language Technology Program, Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw Language Program.
Sharing Homes: Deborah Nass and David Shapiro
Sophia Walters, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, UBC
Deborah Nass and David Shapiro reflect on changing dynamics through several decades of sharing homes. In anticipation of moving out of their beloved home in inner Southeast Portland, Oregon, they tell the story of how they met and what it was like to build a relationship in their forties with a blended family.
Credits: Deborah Nass, David Shapiro, BBC Sound Effects Archive, Gregor Quendel
Memories and music among the Ravens – Reminiscing about our time on S,ḴŦAḴ
Emily Comeau, PhD candidate, Community, Culture & Global Studies, UBC Okanagan
S,ḴŦAḴ (Mayne Island) holds a special place in my heart, and I visit whenever I can. In June 2023, while we were attending the Campbell Bay Music Festival, I sat down with my partner, Matthew Kaufhold, to hear about some of his memories of visiting S,ḴŦAḴ as a child.
Credits: Opening clip is an excerpt from a video of J,SIṈTEN (Dr. John Elliott) from July 2021, welcoming guests to the Campbell Bay Music Festival in SENĆOŦEN and explaining the meaning of the island’s W̱SÁNEĆ name, S,ḴŦAḴ.
Reminiscences and music by Matthew Kaufhold
Untitled
Karoline Paier, PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, UBC
Fall cohort
A Haunting
Sam Channell, Master's Student, School of Information, UBC
The piece draws heavily from Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House, interweaving excerpts from the novel with ambient sound, archival recordings, and academic writing on the haunted house. The first and final excerpts, themselves the opening and concluding sections of the novel, bookend the montage of different sounds, providing a temporal container for the piece, much as the walls of a house contain a haunting.
Credits: Excerpts read from The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959) and "Night Spaces: The Haunted House" by Martyn Hudson from Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory (2017)
Sounds used:
Distant Sad Piano by Patrick Lieberkind (License: Attribution 4.0)
Dark Ambience by Patrick Lieberkind (License: Attribution 4.0)
Drone 006.wav by Jarred Gibb (License: Creative Commons 0)
Terror Orchestra 6 by Ashenruse
Adagio in G Minor composed by Tomaso Albinoni
Ekkofantasi performed by Finn Viderø and written by Jan Pieters Sweelinck
Untitled
Alex Bryant, PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, UBC
Making Space, Making Home
Cheyanne Brown Armstrong (Dunne-Za and Cree, West Moberly First Nations), PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, UBC
Reflecting on one's experience with their childhood home (house and space), this audio piece offers a snapshot into how young adults find and make homes for themselves as they grow and develop their own sense of 'adult' agency and space-/world-making capacities. By juxtaposing past and present feelings, memories, and aesthetics associated with one's home then and now, I hope to demonstrate the importance of bodily and space autonomy in how we live in and make homes, and that homes are not limited to where we grew up; they can and are made as well.
Audio content unavailable by request of the creator
Mapping Memories: Reflections Ten Years Later
Cate Ngieng, Bachelor of Arts Student, Department of Anthropology and Department of First Nations and Endangered Languages, UBC.
Two sisters reflect on their shared experiences while on a family trip to Malaysia. Through photographs, they revisit the places that shaped lasting memories.
Credits: Sofia Ngieng (Speaker)