{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/183416vw1c/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["\"You sound just like your dad\""]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/128/original/UA_Logo_WHT_RGB_%281%29.png?1725471982","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Weigel, Matthew (Creator)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2026-01-12 (Published)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMatthew Weigel (he/him)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDoctoral student, English\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFaculty of Arts, Department of English \u0026amp; Film Studies\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e2nd place\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist Statement\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis storytelling piece contains archival recordings, poetry, and music. The vocals are of my great-grandfather Jim Balsillie, narrating a film on Dene tradition (R. Fumoleau 1976). These are mixed excerpts from an interview with his brother Harold the year I was born (NWT Archives/Fort Resolution Community Education Council fonds 1985). Poetic fragments in my own voice are added, as response and conversation with my ancestors. The title comes from something my grandmother’s sister said during our last phone conversation before she passed. Accompanying the vocals is music composed by myself on an OP-1 synthesizer. My research maps correspondences between land and story. In this recording I illustrate sonically connections between place (Mackenzie River) and family. Sometimes these mappings are formal: oral tradition, interviews. And sometimes informal: family conversation, traveling together on the land. My work organizes these maps through interdisciplinary research-creation, collapsing boundaries of space, time, field, and method. Through cut-up and re-mix, my visual art, creative writing, and oral storytelling look to honour the unearthing of archives (institutional and stratigraphic), and map personal contours across the depths of the land.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedia\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eArchival audio extracted from I Was Born Here and Interview with Harold Balsillie; music composed by creator; vocals of creator.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCreative Process\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn Ableton Live I imported a web-download of the R. Fumoleau documentary (a copy of the 16mm film is held in the University of Alberta archives), as well as the downloaded interview from Fort Resolution Community Education Council in the NWT Archives. I composed four minutes of music on an OP-1 synthesizer with multiple tracks directly into Ableton Live. For some tracks, the OP-1 was passed through a Hologram Electronics Microcosm guitar pedal (granular glitch/loop/delay/reverb). This music was processed with effects and plugins in Ableton, including crackle/vinyl warp/reverb/compression/lo-fi/vintage amplifiers. I then recorded my own vocals on a Fifine USB cardioid microphone and applied similar Ableton effects/plugins. These were applied to try to blend well with the lo-fi quality of the archival recordings, which required additional changes to enhance clarity, reduce background noise, and balance the volume levels. The archival recordings were cropped/cut up and arranged together with my own vocals. I edited my vocal pieces to suit the re-arrangement.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCredits\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFumoleau, René, et al. I Was Born Here. Produced by Marlin Motion Pictures for Dept. of Indian \u0026amp; Northern Affairs, 1976\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.isuma.tv/dehcho-land-and-love-people/i-was-born-here\"\u003ehttps://www.isuma.tv/dehcho-land-and-love-people/i-was-born-here\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://search.library.ualberta.ca/permalink/01UOA_INST/cgo409/alma991016533229709116\"\u003ehttps://search.library.ualberta.ca/permalink/01UOA_INST/cgo409/alma991016533229709116\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFort Resolution Community Education Council\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart 1 of 12 of an interview in Chipewyan with Harold Balsillie in April 1985 (items :0001 to :0012).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e[note: interview is actually in english]\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eN-1993-016: 0001\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://gnwt.accesstomemory.org/n-1993-016-0001\"\u003ehttps://gnwt.accesstomemory.org/n-1993-016-0001\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons licence, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0): see \u003ca href=\"creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/\"\u003ecreativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/\u003c/a\u003e. To obtain permission for uses beyond those outlined in the Creative Commons licence, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:aviary@ualberta.ca\"\u003eaviary@ualberta.ca\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMatthew Weigel (he/him)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDoctoral student, English\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFaculty of Arts, Department of English \u0026amp; Film Studies\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e2nd place\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist Statement\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis storytelling piece contains archival recordings, poetry, and music. The vocals are of my great-grandfather Jim Balsillie, narrating a film on Dene tradition (R. Fumoleau 1976). These are mixed excerpts from an interview with his brother Harold the year I was born (NWT Archives/Fort Resolution Community Education Council fonds 1985). Poetic fragments in my own voice are added, as response and conversation with my ancestors. The title comes from something my grandmother\u0026rsquo;s sister said during our last phone conversation before she passed. Accompanying the vocals is music composed by myself on an OP-1 synthesizer. My research maps correspondences between land and story. In this recording I illustrate sonically connections between place (Mackenzie River) and family. Sometimes these mappings are formal: oral tradition, interviews. And sometimes informal: family conversation, traveling together on the land. My work organizes these maps through interdisciplinary research-creation, collapsing boundaries of space, time, field, and method. 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For some tracks, the OP-1 was passed through a Hologram Electronics Microcosm guitar pedal (granular glitch/loop/delay/reverb). This music was processed with effects and plugins in Ableton, including crackle/vinyl warp/reverb/compression/lo-fi/vintage amplifiers. I then recorded my own vocals on a Fifine USB cardioid microphone and applied similar Ableton effects/plugins. These were applied to try to blend well with the lo-fi quality of the archival recordings, which required additional changes to enhance clarity, reduce background noise, and balance the volume levels. The archival recordings were cropped/cut up and arranged together with my own vocals. I edited my vocal pieces to suit the re-arrangement.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCredits\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFumoleau, Ren\u0026eacute;, et al. I Was Born Here. 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