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Difficult to discern because of audio warping/distortion.\n- Greg Greagory Cookis on the phone with the interviewee (uncertain who other speaker is)."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558224351234,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.444Z","score":3.6228101},{"id":"8216","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["Armstrong / McCormack"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Label on tape box: \"Armstrong/McCormack\" and \"Master\" sticker\"; Handwritten note on paper, side of case: \"A: Distortion - 1st half\" and \"B: partial phone conversation w/ ?\"; Label on tape, A side: \"Armstrong + Hope + dead half [?]\"; Label on tape, B side: \"+ Ken McCormack\""],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[1.5]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2045"],"creator_names":["Cook, Gregory, M."],"creator_names_search":["Cook, Gregory, M."],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/230841225\",\"name\":\"Cook, Gregory, M.\",\"dates\":\"1942-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Armstrong, Bruce","McCormack, Ken"],"contributors_names_search":["Armstrong, Bruce","McCormack, Ken"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Armstrong, Bruce\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"McCormack, Ken\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"Speaker_name":["Armstrong, Bruce","McCormack, Ken"],"Performance_Date":[1995],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Unknown acetate\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Poor\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Distorted\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Nowlan_MsC_301_1.5\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T01:06:11\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"2.13 GB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1995-11\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Date taken from creation dates listed for item level descriptions in archival finding aid for the Alden Nowlan fonds Item number 1.5\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Conversation between Bruce Armstrong, Ken McCormack, and Greg Cook. Sounds like they are meeting in a restaurant, lots of voices and noise in background.\n- Issues with recording tape, sound warping/distortion throughout beginning of tape. Cuts at - [00:06:28] and [00:09:52] .\n- Cut at [00:17:18] and have moved to different location, conversation with Bruce Armstrong, Ken McCormack, and Greg Cook. Recording is clear though quiet. Short cut at - [00:35:11] .\n- Cut at [00:37:36] to testing and - [00:38:00] back to conversation. Cut at - [00:47:22] . Woman’s voice interjects in conversation (present, but not named in conversation).\n- Ken McCormack is a photographer contracted often to cover events Alden Nowlan attended.\n- [00:51:58] cut to different point in conversation.\n- [00:54:59] Greagory Cookcuts tape intentionally while poem is read. Turns it back on after one reading and asks for poem to be read for the tape.\n- [00:59:16] cut in tape.\n- [01:02:00] cut in tape. 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