Episode nr. 19 - Between Bridges... voices stir time travelled.
By Maile Colbert

We are pleased to present the last episode of a series of the Binaural Radio Rural podcast, entitled “Between Bridges” and created by Maile Colbert. The source archives used in this series belong to Binaural Nodar Digital Archive and explore Voice, and its relationship to Place. How do our places shape voices, both human and non-human, song and soundscape.

This episode works with polyphonic songs from the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, as well as the soundtrack from Maile Colbert’s film created at the Binaural Nodar artist residency in November 2007, during her first trip to Portugal.

On the creative process she says: “Using processes that bend, twist, rupture, and shape time and sound. The work revisited through the archive, Over the Eyes, is from my first trip to Portugal, and my first artist residency at Binaural Nodar, an experience that changed my life in multiple ways. I accessed and explored, considering memory and sound, along with the other voices from the archive. The personal archives, the archives of others, woven together, crochet of voices, memories, and time. The many temporalities of voices in archives. In the composition, they move in and out of phase, traces linger, call, die off, return in an unexpected place. Old song recorded on new material, sounding their times. Voices recorded with older technologies, sounding their times. A climatic mix decided by the machine, from what it learned of my memories.” 

Maile Colbert is an intermedia artist, researcher, and educator with a focus on time-based media. She is a PhD Research Fellow in Artistic Studies with a concentration on Sound Studies, cinematic sound design, and its relationship with soundscape ecology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a visiting lecturer at the Universidade da Maia, Porto. Her current practice and research project is titled, Wayback Sound Machine: Sound through time, space, and place, and asks what we might gather from sounding the past. She is a collaborator with the art organization Binaural Nodar, a member of CineLab, research lab for cinema and philosophy and is an editor and author at Sonic Field. She has exhibited, screened, and performed globally.

Binaural Radio Rural #19 - Between bridges... voices stir time travelled

This is the presentation, “Getting the Picture: Developing Computational Methods to Interrogate Large Datasets of Historical Book Illustrations”, delivered by Professor Julia Thomas (Cardiff University) and Irene Testini (Cardiff University) at the second EyCon workshop, ‘Using Visual AI applied to Digital Archives’, held at the Imperial War Museum (London) on 8 June-9 June 2023. Hosted by Loughborough University in partnership with Imperial War Museums Institute, this was the second workshop held by the EyCon (Early Conflict Photography and Visual AI) project.

Getting - The - Picture - By - Prof - Julia - Thomas - And - Irene - Testini

This is the presentation, “Using Multimodal Machine Learning to Study the Visual Representation of War”, delivered by Dr Thomas Smits (Universiteit Antwerpen) at the second EyCon workshop, ‘Using Visual AI applied to Digital Archives’, held at the Imperial War Museum (London) on 8 June-9 June 2023. Hosted by Loughborough University in partnership with Imperial War Museums Institute, this was the second workshop held by the EyCon (Early Conflict Photography and Visual AI) project.

Using - Multimodal - Machine - Learning - By - Dr - Thomas - Smits

This is the presentation, “The New ECPAD Digital Platform: When Workflows Question the Communication of Archives”, delivered by Eléonore Plantard, and Véronique Pontillon-Valedon (ECPAD) at the second EyCon workshop, ‘Using Visual AI applied to Digital Archives’, held at the Imperial War Museum (London) on 8 June-9 June 2023. Hosted by Loughborough University in partnership with Imperial War Museums Institute, this was the second workshop held by the EyCon (Early Conflict Photography and Visual AI) project.

The - New - Ecpad - Digital - Platform - By Eléonore -Plantard - Véronique Pontillon-Valedon

This is the presentation, “Augmenting the Archival Experience of Embodied Knowledge Through Visual AI: a Computational Framework”, delivered by Giacomo Alliata (EPFL-CDH-DHI-eM+)  at the second EyCon workshop, ‘Using Visual AI applied to Digital Archives’, held at the Imperial War Museum (London) on 8 June-9 June 2023. Hosted by Loughborough University in partnership with Imperial War Museums Institute, this was the second workshop held by the EyCon (Early Conflict Photography and Visual AI) project.

Augmenting - The - Archival - Experience - Of - Embodied - Knowledge - By - Giacomo - Alliata

This is the presentation, “Collections as Data in the Context of Visual AI”, delivered by Dr Christiane Sibille and Nicole Graf (ETH-Bibliothek, Zurich) at the second EyCon workshop, ‘Using Visual AI applied to Digital Archives’, held at the Imperial War Museum (London) on 8 June-9 June 2023. Hosted by Loughborough University in partnership with Imperial War Museums Institute, this was the second workshop held by the EyCon (Early Conflict Photography and Visual AI) project.

Collections - As - Data - By - Dr - Christiane - Sibille - Nicole - Graf

Majd Al-Shihabi of 'Palestine Open Maps' and Sana Yazigi of the 'Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution' talk to us about how they have centered their archiving processes around maps, and what digital archiving can do for Palestinian and Syrian community-building.

This episode also features comment from Dr Sara Salem and Dr Mai Taha of LSE, who explore the importance of creative archiving through their project 'Archive Stories'.

Note: this episode was recorded before October 7, 2023.

Majd Al-Shihabi is a technologist turned urban planner, turned technologisturbanplanner. Majd is co-founder of Palestine Open Maps, a platform for searching, navigating, downloading and digitizing historical maps of Palestine. Majd was the inaugural Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellow which enabled him to start Palestine Open Maps.

https://palopenmaps.org/en

Sana Yazigi is a graphic designer and cultural activist. She is the founder of Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution, a project that documents all types of creative expressions produced since the Syrian Revolution in 2011 until the present day. She is also the founder of The Cultural Diary, Syria's first bilingual monthly cultural agenda (2007-2012).

https://creativememory.org/

https://archive-stories.com/

Archiving and Mapping Technologies in Palestine and Syria

The EyCon Project(The Early Conflict Photography and Visual AI)
Co-funded by the AHRC/Labex Past in the Present
Led by Dr Lise Jaillant (Loughborough University)Dr Julien Schuh (Paris Nanterre University)  Prof Daniel Foliard (University of Paris Cité)

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