Masters of Text
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA podcast exploring alt-alphabetic texts and creative-critical scholarship.
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s02e06: Reflections on a Good Run and our final BS Johnson conversation
September 03, 2018 15:25 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBIn this episode's first segment, we take a minute to look back at what we've accomplished and what we've learned over the course of our last two seasons of Masters of Text. Our second segment puts a wrap on our discussion of BS Johnson's book, The Unfortunates.
s02e05: Discussion of BS Johnson's The Unfortunates; More thoughts on the Vox Pop
September 25, 2017 11:16 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MBIn this episode’s first segment, we offer the first half or our post-reading discussion of BS Johnson’s novel, The Unfortunates. Our second segment continues our discussion of the Vox Pop as a creative critical form and practice.
s02e04: Pre-reading BS Johnson's The Unfortunates; Reflecting on the Vox Pop
September 25, 2017 11:00 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBWe’re back! We open this episode discussing what we’ve been up to this summer. In our first segment, we offer our pre-reading thoughts on BS Johnson’s novel, The Unfortunates. Our second segment focuses on the Vox Pop as a creative critical form and practice.
Bonus - Comparing Super Powers with Nickole Brown
March 04, 2017 15:22 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBWe had so much great material from our conversation with poet, Nickole Brown, we couldn't fit it all into our previous episode. Maybe it's a little self-indulgent, but you'll just have to deal with it. Ames asks Nickole to reveal her personal superpower, and then Ames has to reveal her own. Finally, Trauman adds his own. If you want to find out how we plan to continue to defend the universe, you'll just have to listen in.
s02e03: Final Reflections on Nox; Conversation with Nickole Brown
December 19, 2016 02:38 - 1 hour - 109 MBIn this episode, Ames and Trauman return to some of the observations they've already made about Anne Carson's Nox, make some connections to other texts with similar projects. In the second segment, Ames and Trauman have a conversation with poet Nickole Brown about Anne Carson's work and how it has influenced her work and her life as a poet.
s02e02: Reading Nox; Death & Desire Vox Pop
November 28, 2016 11:40 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBIn this episode, Ames and Trauman discuss their reading of Nox, by Anne Carson. They focus on the ways Carson addresses the larger topics of translation, history, muteness and shame, while highlighting the connections between her work and their own projects. In the second segment, Ames presents yet another vox pop piece. This one includes well over 100 voices, those of students currently in her first year experience course, Death and Desire in Chicago. Music Credits: “ditto, ditto!” by Do...
s02e01: Nox Pre-reading Thoughts and Rethinking a Table of Contents
November 28, 2016 11:28 - 1 hour - 110 MBIn this episode, Ames and Trauman begin by welcoming everyone back to the blog and getting caught up since last season. The episode's first segment introduces the Masters of Text reading project for the first half of this season: Anne Carson's Nox. They offer their thoughts on this amazing book and explain why they're about to read it. In the second segment, Trauman returns to the topic of designing digital texts as he recounts his reading and research process for rethinking the possibilitie...
The 'S' Projects we didn't make, and and the ones we did!
August 31, 2016 02:49 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBWell, it took a little bit of time, but we made it! We have successfully, to our satisfaction, completed the first season of Masters of Text! This is We end where we began, with the S Project and return to some audio we recorded just about exactly one year ago. In Episode 09, way back in December. Ames and Trauman return to a final discussion of the project itself, us thinking toward what it is we might turn this into. In many ways, this is a large-form of what we might call a digital so...
Ames’s Amazing Austrian Audio Adventure!
August 15, 2016 23:35 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBHow’s that for some alliteration. In this episode, one recorded and produced in it’s entirety in Austria, Ames tells of her experience as an invited speaker and faculty member at the Graz International Summer School, a two-week intensive educational experience organized by the University of Graz that takes place at a Seggau Castle, about forty minutes South of Graz. Ames frames discussion of her visit through the three audio texts she produced following workshops with three different cohorts...
Soundwriting in the FYW classroom
July 31, 2016 05:05 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBAmes and Trauman are BACK! After a hiatus caused by the perfect storm of health issues, an unsustainable production schedule, and amazing professional opportunities, Ames and Trauman return to end Season 1 with the first of three episodes. Episode 10 brings the long-ago promised discussion of our collaboratively created and co-taught soundwriting classes. After a pretty quick explanation of what we did, we focus our conversation on what we got out of the experience, and what we believe the ...
DIY Audio Cables, Scholars as Makers, Penultimate S. Discussion (Podcast s01e09)
December 14, 2015 05:43 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBLike most episodes, this one consists of two segments. In the initial segment, Ames and Trauman talk about their adventures into the world of DIY audio cables. Though not without challenges, their efforts were ultimately successful. They reflect on the practical rewards and emotional satisfaction of measuring, stripping, soldering, and testing. And of course the conversation moves beyond the specifics of cable-making in general to larger questions about the value of DIY approaches to scholar...
Storytelling through Marginalia, a Radical Dance Workshop, and Creative Processes as Research Methodologies. MoT: s01e08
November 30, 2015 05:00 - 1 hour - 111 MB[insert player here] In this episode, we offer two segments and spotlight three excellent texts. In our first segment, we continue our discussion of S., the experimental novel by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. As we reflect on reading chapters 7,8,9, and an "interlude," we return to some of the main themes of the book: scholarship, love, identity, documentation, and collaboration. It's such an amazing book. You should really get yourself a copy, start reading it, and keep listening to us talk...
Vox Fabri, Vox Dea, and Adventures in Microcasting - Ep07 - MoT
November 16, 2015 06:00 - 50 minutes - 57.6 MBIn our first segment, "Vox Fabri, Vox Dea," Ames remixes the responses of 45 participants of the Tenth Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Organized around patterns of answers to two questions--"What's your favorite FemRhet moment?" and "What's you're way of making? This vox populi piece makes clear the magic and magnificence of this conference, one celebrating twenty years. Our second segment recounts a local "microcasting" experiment produced at Columbia College Chicago's Parents...
Ep06 - The New Work of Reading; More S. Project Chatter
November 02, 2015 01:47 - 46 minutes - 52.8 MBIn episode 6 of Masters of Text, Ames presents the first part of a three-section piece called “The New Work of Reading,” an experimental audio-autoethnographic piece in which she examines her own process of learning to read multimodal scholarship. This episode also features the third segment of our S. Project, a dialogue that focuses on what we thought about Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of S.. by J.J. Abrahams and Doug Dorst. As an interlude, Trauman offers a spotlight on a couple of texts he recomm...
MoT - Ep05 - Audio Editing Software and New Media Design Strategies
October 20, 2015 15:15 - 56 minutes - 64.7 MBEpisode 5 begins with a segment in which Trauman reflects on how he employs an historical understanding of technologies as a central part of his textual design process. It’s pretty much the theoretical background for his design approach for conceptualizing the table of contents of the edited collection: The New Work of Composing [http://ccdigitalpress.org/nwc/]. In the second half of the episode, Ames and Trauman discuss a couple of audio editors that are absolutely outstanding for producing...
Ep04 - The Making of Gurlesque; More of the S. Project
October 05, 2015 03:58 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBIn this segment, Trauman interviews Ames about how and why it was she turned her written piece, “An Open Letter to Gurlesque” (which you can hear in Episode 3) into an audio text. Conversation ranges from discussion of the ways that two fonts on the page come alive through the voices of Ames and Arielle Greenberg, to Ames’s attempt at writing queer theory, to the ways that visual aspects of text such as footnotes become invisible in a recording. Ames ends by imagining at least one future ite...
Ep03 - Going Girlesque; Learning to Read Again; and more of Abrams and Dorst's S. MoT e03
September 23, 2015 04:29 - 59 minutes - 67.6 MBIn this episode, Ames and Trauman continue their conversation about Abrams and Dorst's novel, S. after reading the first quarter of the book. They find that's is fascinating. And damn difficult reading. And totally worth it. The second half of the show is Ames's text: "An Open Letter to Girlesque." It's smart, racy, and beautiful. No doubt a "must-listen."
Ep02 - Digital Storytelling; Art Activism; Audio Text Birthday Present for Ames' Mom; MoT e02
September 23, 2015 03:45 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this episode, Ames and Trauman discuss a course they taught together this year. It combined writing, digital storytelling, and art activism. Also, Ames reflects on making an audio text as a present for her mom's 70th birthday.
Ep01 - Welcome; Meet Ames and Trauman; Encountering S. a novel by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. MoT e01
September 23, 2015 03:12 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBIn this episode, you meet us, the two hosts of the show, Ames Hawkins and Ryan Trauman. We talk a little about our backgrounds, how we met, and how this podcast came into being. In the second half of the episode, we discuss our first encounter with S., a novel by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. But the book is also a fascinating experiment with storytelling and "book-ness."