web02.fireside.fm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:50:59 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Electro-Library - Episodes Tagged with “Memory” https://electrolibrary.fireside.fm/tags/memory Wed, 08 May 2019 22:00:00 -0400 A literary and cultural anthology of cross-disciplinary creativity from the Stonehill College English Department and Creative Writing Program. A Stonehill Digital Lab production. en-us episodic A cabinet of curiosities for your ears. Editors of the Electro-Library A literary and cultural anthology of cross-disciplinary creativity from the Stonehill College English Department and Creative Writing Program. A Stonehill Digital Lab production. no Editors of the Electro-Library digitallab@stonehill.edu Photography (Part Two) https://electrolibrary.fireside.fm/2-4 77c36270-0ae6-4320-8c69-747a2b315807 Wed, 08 May 2019 22:00:00 -0400 Editors of the Electro-Library full 2 Editors of the Electro-Library Part two of our two-part series on photography. 41:45 no 0:00 Ad: Ansco Cadet Camera, ca. 1950. 0:19 Introduction: Scott Cohen. 1:29 Excerpt 1 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972. 2:11 Wisława Szymborska, “Photograph from September 11” (trans. Clare Cavanaugh), from Monologue of a Dog, 2005. Read by Helga Duncan. (Music: Jared Green, Untitled Ambient) 3:11 Italo Calvino, from “The Adventure of a Photographer,” (trans. William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun), from Difficult Loves, 1987. Read by Wendy Peek. 4:29 Vladimir Nabokov, “The Snapshot.” Read by Jared Green. (Music: Erik Satie, Gnossiene n°3. Performed by Laurent Bonetto. https://soundcloud.com/laurent-bonetto/satie-gnossiene-n-3) 5:56 Ad: Orson Welles for the Vivitar compact camera, 1978. 6:27 John Berger, from About Looking, 2015. Read by Wanjiru Mbure. 6:56 Jessica Costello, “To the Girl in the Photo Dated May 8, 2018.“ Read by Jessica Costello. 9:26 Excerpt 2 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972. 10:12 Roland Barthes, from Camera Lucida, 1980. Read by Daniel Itzkovitz. (Music: Bach, Siloti transcription, Prélude in B Minor. Performed by Laurent Bonetto. https://soundcloud.com/laurent-bonetto/bach-siloti-transcription-prelude-in-b-minor) 14:13 Ad: Liv Ullmann for the Polaroid Sonar, 1979. 14:38 Amra Brooks, untitled story from This Long Century, 2018. Read by Amra Brooks. To read the full text, go to: http://www.thislongcentury.com/?p=9984 (Music: David Szesztay, “Chains Down,” Atmospheric Electric Guitar. CC BY-NC 3.0. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/DavidSzesztay/20170730112627137/ChainsDown) 23:02 Music: “Pictures of You,” The Cure, from Disintegration, 1989. 23:43 Ad: Kodak Brownie Starmatic camera, 1958. 24:06 Ethan Canin, “Vivian, Fort Barnwell.” Read by Ethan Canin. Music: Ukelele Parade by Fernando Oyaguez Reyes CC BY-NC 3.0 https://archive.org/details/UkeleleParade 26:34 Interview: Ethan Canin with Jared Green on Photographs, Unreliable Memory, and Time. 36:21 Ad: Excerpt 3 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972. 38:38 Music: “Photograph,” Ringo Starr, from Ringo, 1973. Cover version performed by Danny McEvoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBU556przmA Thanks to: Ethan Canin for sharing his work and thoughts (recorded via Skype on February 21, 2019); Amra Brooks for reading her short story, Jessica Costello for her poem; Helga Duncan, Wendy Peek, Wanjiru Mbure, and Daniel Itzkovitz for their readings; Danny McEvoy and Laurent Bonetto for agreeing to share their performances. Finally, big thanks to Jessica Williams and Madison Parenteau for their expert audio engineering. photography, memory, camera,time,polaroid,september 11, 0:00 Ad: Ansco Cadet Camera, ca. 1950.
0:19 Introduction: Scott Cohen.
1:29 Excerpt 1 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972.
2:11 Wisława Szymborska, “Photograph from September 11” (trans. Clare Cavanaugh), from Monologue of a Dog, 2005. Read by Helga Duncan.
(Music: Jared Green, Untitled Ambient)
3:11 Italo Calvino, from “The Adventure of a Photographer,” (trans. William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun), from Difficult Loves, 1987. Read by Wendy Peek.
4:29 Vladimir Nabokov, “The Snapshot.” Read by Jared Green.
(Music: Erik Satie, Gnossiene n°3. Performed by Laurent Bonetto.
https://soundcloud.com/laurent-bonetto/satie-gnossiene-n-3)
5:56 Ad: Orson Welles for the Vivitar compact camera, 1978.
6:27 John Berger, from About Looking, 2015. Read by Wanjiru Mbure.
6:56 Jessica Costello, “To the Girl in the Photo Dated May 8, 2018.“ Read by Jessica Costello.
9:26 Excerpt 2 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972.
10:12 Roland Barthes, from Camera Lucida, 1980. Read by Daniel Itzkovitz.
(Music: Bach, Siloti transcription, Prélude in B Minor. Performed by Laurent Bonetto.
https://soundcloud.com/laurent-bonetto/bach-siloti-transcription-prelude-in-b-minor)
14:13 Ad: Liv Ullmann for the Polaroid Sonar, 1979.
14:38 Amra Brooks, untitled story from This Long Century, 2018. Read by Amra Brooks. To read the full text, go to: http://www.thislongcentury.com/?p=9984
(Music: David Szesztay, “Chains Down,” Atmospheric Electric Guitar. CC BY-NC 3.0.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Szesztay/20170730112627137/Chains_Down)
23:02 Music: “Pictures of You,” The Cure, from Disintegration, 1989.
23:43 Ad: Kodak Brownie Starmatic camera, 1958.
24:06 Ethan Canin, “Vivian, Fort Barnwell.” Read by Ethan Canin.
Music: Ukelele Parade by Fernando Oyaguez Reyes CC BY-NC 3.0
https://archive.org/details/UkeleleParade
26:34 Interview: Ethan Canin with Jared Green on Photographs, Unreliable Memory, and Time.
36:21 Ad: Excerpt 3 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972.
38:38 Music: “Photograph,” Ringo Starr, from Ringo, 1973. Cover version performed by Danny McEvoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBU556przmA

Thanks to: Ethan Canin for sharing his work and thoughts (recorded via Skype on February 21, 2019); Amra Brooks for reading her short story, Jessica Costello for her poem; Helga Duncan, Wendy Peek, Wanjiru Mbure, and Daniel Itzkovitz for their readings; Danny McEvoy and Laurent Bonetto for agreeing to share their performances. Finally, big thanks to Jessica Williams and Madison Parenteau for their expert audio engineering.

]]> 0:00 Ad: Ansco Cadet Camera, ca. 1950.
0:19 Introduction: Scott Cohen.
1:29 Excerpt 1 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972.
2:11 Wisława Szymborska, “Photograph from September 11” (trans. Clare Cavanaugh), from Monologue of a Dog, 2005. Read by Helga Duncan.
(Music: Jared Green, Untitled Ambient)
3:11 Italo Calvino, from “The Adventure of a Photographer,” (trans. William Weaver, Peggy Wright, and Archibald Colquhoun), from Difficult Loves, 1987. Read by Wendy Peek.
4:29 Vladimir Nabokov, “The Snapshot.” Read by Jared Green.
(Music: Erik Satie, Gnossiene n°3. Performed by Laurent Bonetto.
https://soundcloud.com/laurent-bonetto/satie-gnossiene-n-3)
5:56 Ad: Orson Welles for the Vivitar compact camera, 1978.
6:27 John Berger, from About Looking, 2015. Read by Wanjiru Mbure.
6:56 Jessica Costello, “To the Girl in the Photo Dated May 8, 2018.“ Read by Jessica Costello.
9:26 Excerpt 2 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972.
10:12 Roland Barthes, from Camera Lucida, 1980. Read by Daniel Itzkovitz.
(Music: Bach, Siloti transcription, Prélude in B Minor. Performed by Laurent Bonetto.
https://soundcloud.com/laurent-bonetto/bach-siloti-transcription-prelude-in-b-minor)
14:13 Ad: Liv Ullmann for the Polaroid Sonar, 1979.
14:38 Amra Brooks, untitled story from This Long Century, 2018. Read by Amra Brooks. To read the full text, go to: http://www.thislongcentury.com/?p=9984
(Music: David Szesztay, “Chains Down,” Atmospheric Electric Guitar. CC BY-NC 3.0.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Szesztay/20170730112627137/Chains_Down)
23:02 Music: “Pictures of You,” The Cure, from Disintegration, 1989.
23:43 Ad: Kodak Brownie Starmatic camera, 1958.
24:06 Ethan Canin, “Vivian, Fort Barnwell.” Read by Ethan Canin.
Music: Ukelele Parade by Fernando Oyaguez Reyes CC BY-NC 3.0
https://archive.org/details/UkeleleParade
26:34 Interview: Ethan Canin with Jared Green on Photographs, Unreliable Memory, and Time.
36:21 Ad: Excerpt 3 from Charles and Ray Eames, Polaroid SX-70 camera, 1972.
38:38 Music: “Photograph,” Ringo Starr, from Ringo, 1973. Cover version performed by Danny McEvoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBU556przmA

Thanks to: Ethan Canin for sharing his work and thoughts (recorded via Skype on February 21, 2019); Amra Brooks for reading her short story, Jessica Costello for her poem; Helga Duncan, Wendy Peek, Wanjiru Mbure, and Daniel Itzkovitz for their readings; Danny McEvoy and Laurent Bonetto for agreeing to share their performances. Finally, big thanks to Jessica Williams and Madison Parenteau for their expert audio engineering.

]]> Photography (Part One) https://electrolibrary.fireside.fm/2-3 cc61b055-35f3-4162-8e35-a440d3d038fa Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:00:00 -0400 Editors of the Electro-Library full 2 Editors of the Electro-Library What happens when we take a photograph? What happens when we capture light on paper, in emulsion, or in pixels and look, across a gulf of time, at these fragments of the past? What gets in the frame and what lies just beyond? If, as John Berger notes, “photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a certain situation,” then what can photographs tell us about the choices we make and why we make them? 44:32 no 0:00 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946 0:19 Intro, Amra brooks 1:43 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946 1:56 Jared Green reading from Nadar, “Balzac and the Daguerreotype,” from When I was a Photographer" 5:32 Chris Ives reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Life in Boston” 7:20 Scott Cohen, reading from Umberto Eco, “A Photograph” 16:20 Vintage Polaroid Swinger Ad 17:19 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946 17:29 Adam Lampton on Photography, Memory, and Moving 24:02 Vintage Polaroid Sonar Ad (with Liv Ullmann) 24:38 Joanna McNaney Stein, “Clean Slate” and in conversation with Jared Green 38:15 Excerpt, The Ed Sullivan Show/Kodak Commercial: "All America is Cameraland", 1961 38:36 Sutopa Dasgupta, reading Susan Sontag, from “On Photography" - Thanks to: Joanna McNaney Stein for sharing her work and thoughts (recorded via Skype in November 2018), Scott Cohen, Chris Ives, and Sutopa Dasgupta for their readings, Adam Lampton for his spoken essay, Jessica Williams and Madison Parenteau for their expert audio engineering. Music: Theme song: "Ecstasy in Umbra," Hitek Mesh@t/Tubifex https://soundcloud.com/user-736000448/ecstacy-in-umbra "Stickle," by Blue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0 https://www.sessions.blue "Blind Love Dub," (ft. Kara Square (mindmapthat)) by Jervis. CC By 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/VJMemes/55416 "Titter Snowbird," by Bue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/BlueDotSessions/Resolute/TitterSnowbird https://www.sessions.blue "Swollen Cloud," by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/PodingtonBear/Ambient/SwollenCloud "Future History," by Jared Green "Blue," by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/PodingtonBear/HomageFromage/Blue1246 photography,daguerreotype,Joanna McNaney Stein,Balzac,Umberto Eco,memory,camera,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Susan Sontag 0:00 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
0:19 Intro, Amra brooks
1:43 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
1:56 Jared Green reading from Nadar, “Balzac and the Daguerreotype,” from When I was a Photographer"
5:32 Chris Ives reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Life in Boston”
7:20 Scott Cohen, reading from Umberto Eco, “A Photograph”
16:20 Vintage Polaroid Swinger Ad
17:19 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
17:29 Adam Lampton on Photography, Memory, and Moving
24:02 Vintage Polaroid Sonar Ad (with Liv Ullmann)
24:38 Joanna McNaney Stein, “Clean Slate” and in conversation with Jared Green
38:15 Excerpt, The Ed Sullivan Show/Kodak Commercial:
"All America is Cameraland", 1961
38:36 Sutopa Dasgupta, reading Susan Sontag, from “On Photography"

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Thanks to: Joanna McNaney Stein for sharing her work and thoughts (recorded via Skype in November 2018), Scott Cohen, Chris Ives, and Sutopa Dasgupta for their readings, Adam Lampton for his spoken essay, Jessica Williams and Madison Parenteau for their expert audio engineering.

Music:
Theme song: "Ecstasy in Umbra," Hitek Mesh@t/Tubifex https://soundcloud.com/user-736000448/ecstacy-in-umbra
"Stickle," by Blue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0 https://www.sessions.blue
"Blind Love Dub," (ft. Kara Square (mindmapthat)) by Jervis. CC By 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/55416
"Titter Snowbird," by Bue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Resolute/Titter_Snowbird
https://www.sessions.blue
"Swollen Cloud," by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Ambient/SwollenCloud
"Future History," by Jared Green
"Blue," by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Homage_Fromage/Blue_1246

]]> 0:00 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
0:19 Intro, Amra brooks
1:43 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
1:56 Jared Green reading from Nadar, “Balzac and the Daguerreotype,” from When I was a Photographer"
5:32 Chris Ives reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Life in Boston”
7:20 Scott Cohen, reading from Umberto Eco, “A Photograph”
16:20 Vintage Polaroid Swinger Ad
17:19 Excerpt, "Photography," Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc., 1946
17:29 Adam Lampton on Photography, Memory, and Moving
24:02 Vintage Polaroid Sonar Ad (with Liv Ullmann)
24:38 Joanna McNaney Stein, “Clean Slate” and in conversation with Jared Green
38:15 Excerpt, The Ed Sullivan Show/Kodak Commercial:
"All America is Cameraland", 1961
38:36 Sutopa Dasgupta, reading Susan Sontag, from “On Photography"

-
Thanks to: Joanna McNaney Stein for sharing her work and thoughts (recorded via Skype in November 2018), Scott Cohen, Chris Ives, and Sutopa Dasgupta for their readings, Adam Lampton for his spoken essay, Jessica Williams and Madison Parenteau for their expert audio engineering.

Music:
Theme song: "Ecstasy in Umbra," Hitek Mesh@t/Tubifex https://soundcloud.com/user-736000448/ecstacy-in-umbra
"Stickle," by Blue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0 https://www.sessions.blue
"Blind Love Dub," (ft. Kara Square (mindmapthat)) by Jervis. CC By 3.0. http://ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/55416
"Titter Snowbird," by Bue Dot Sessions. CC BY-NC 4.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Resolute/Titter_Snowbird
https://www.sessions.blue
"Swollen Cloud," by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Ambient/SwollenCloud
"Future History," by Jared Green
"Blue," by Podington Bear. CC BY-NC 3.0 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Homage_Fromage/Blue_1246

]]> Memory https://electrolibrary.fireside.fm/1-2 196e401d-e09d-466e-930d-0f608cb58e04 Wed, 23 May 2018 10:00:00 -0400 Editors of the Electro-Library full 1 Editors of the Electro-Library Where is a memory? Is it stored inside of us, entire and complete, like a volume in a cellular archive, awaiting retrieval and rereading? Or is it a mosaic of experience fragments re-collected from bits and pieces of sensory input? Is it a feedback loop, folding now into then, truth into fiction? 40:28 no ** E-L 1.2: Memory ** Contents: 1:47 - Students reflecting on memories 3:10 - Wendy Peek reading The Aeneid, bk 1, Virgil 5:12 - Lacuna commercial from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 6:00 - Mary Joan Leith on memory and mortality 9:10 - Wendy Peek reading from The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald 11:30 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course (1918) 12:34 - Janice Lee reading from her book Reconsolidation: Or, it’s the ghosts who will answer you and in conversation with Amra Brooks. 22:04 - Lori Phillips reading from her poem “Lori” 23:51 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course 25:30 - Jared Green reading from Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time translated by Lydia Davis 31:37 - Jennifer Segawa on the science of memory, smell, and taste. 37:30 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course Thanks to: Janice Lee, who spoke with Amra Brooks via Skype in February 2018; Wendy Peek and Jared Green for their readings; Mary Joan Leith for her memory; Jennifer Segawa for her insights into the science of memory; Lori Phillips for her original poetry; Michaela Bottino for her audio engineering; and Tubifex for their beats. Special thanks to Emily Schario, Stonehill class of 2018, who served as managing editor for the Electro-Library. Music: - "Tools of the Trade" by Doxent Zsigmond http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/doxent/56512 - "Gravitational Waves" by airtone http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/55021 - "No Sleep" by logos http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Mseq/51121 - "Jazzy Eve of Heavy Seas" by Wired Ant http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/WiredAnt/38009 - "Sea Decay" by SUPERSIGIL http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/SuperSigil/37789 - "Arc de Triomphe" by Stefan Kartenberg http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/56187 - "Watching Other People's Holidays" by Karstenholymoly http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Karstenholymoly/57163 - "Cloudlight" by Tubifex - "Gymnopédie n1" Satie by Laurent Bonetto - "The Garden of Memory" Emilio de Gogorza, Theodore Curzon, Russell Phillips, https://archive.org/details/78the-garden-of-memoryemilio-de-gogorza-theodore-curzon-russell-phillipsgbia0034473a - "Flower" by Doxent Zsigmond, http://ccmixter.org/files/doxent/52940 Creative Commons By NC ND 4.0 A production of the Digital Innovation Lab at Stonehill College **

E-L 1.2: Memory

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Contents:
1:47 - Students reflecting on memories
3:10 - Wendy Peek reading The Aeneid, bk 1, Virgil
5:12 - Lacuna commercial from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6:00 - Mary Joan Leith on memory and mortality
9:10 - Wendy Peek reading from The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
11:30 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course (1918)
12:34 - Janice Lee reading from her book Reconsolidation: Or, it’s the ghosts who will answer you and in conversation with Amra Brooks.
22:04 - Lori Phillips reading from her poem “Lori”
23:51 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course
25:30 - Jared Green reading from Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time translated by Lydia Davis
31:37 - Jennifer Segawa on the science of memory, smell, and taste.
37:30 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course

Thanks to:
Janice Lee, who spoke with Amra Brooks via Skype in February 2018;
Wendy Peek and Jared Green for their readings; Mary Joan Leith for her memory; Jennifer Segawa for her insights into the science of memory; Lori Phillips for her original poetry; Michaela Bottino for her audio engineering; and Tubifex for their beats.

Special thanks to Emily Schario, Stonehill class of 2018, who served as managing editor for the Electro-Library.

Music:

Creative Commons By NC ND 4.0

A production of the Digital Innovation Lab at Stonehill College

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E-L 1.2: Memory

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Contents:
1:47 - Students reflecting on memories
3:10 - Wendy Peek reading The Aeneid, bk 1, Virgil
5:12 - Lacuna commercial from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6:00 - Mary Joan Leith on memory and mortality
9:10 - Wendy Peek reading from The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
11:30 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course (1918)
12:34 - Janice Lee reading from her book Reconsolidation: Or, it’s the ghosts who will answer you and in conversation with Amra Brooks.
22:04 - Lori Phillips reading from her poem “Lori”
23:51 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course
25:30 - Jared Green reading from Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time translated by Lydia Davis
31:37 - Jennifer Segawa on the science of memory, smell, and taste.
37:30 - Emily Schario reading from The Roth Memory Course

Thanks to:
Janice Lee, who spoke with Amra Brooks via Skype in February 2018;
Wendy Peek and Jared Green for their readings; Mary Joan Leith for her memory; Jennifer Segawa for her insights into the science of memory; Lori Phillips for her original poetry; Michaela Bottino for her audio engineering; and Tubifex for their beats.

Special thanks to Emily Schario, Stonehill class of 2018, who served as managing editor for the Electro-Library.

Music:

Creative Commons By NC ND 4.0

A production of the Digital Innovation Lab at Stonehill College

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