ARCMTL
$13,718.00 CAD
- Department
- Library and Archives Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2019-2020
- Agreement period
- April 10, 2019 – March 31, 2020
- Reference
- lac-bac:129-2019-2020-Q1-00003
Published purpose
This project aims to preserve and increase access to a series of more than 400 audio recordings of poems on 219 microcassettes, created for the Dial-A-Poem Montreal project (1986-1989). Based on its New York predecessor, Dial-A-Poem Montreal offered members of the public the opportunity to telephone a hotline and hear a poem read aloud by its author. The system consisted of a series of answering machines that used now-obsolete and highly vulnerable microcassette magnetic tape format. The series also includes recordings of comments left by listeners, recordings made at special events related to the project, and a small number of textual and graphical records.
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