Archive with Post Titles

• Postulant, Novice, Professed: Initiation into Monastic Life (4/2/25)  
• Dominican Prayer Gestures (3/29/25)  
• How To Jump-Start a Scholarly Article: The Plan (3/22/25)
• Listening to the Birds (3/17/25)
• 50 Questions: Adulting As Faculty (3/12/25)
• Age and the Monastic Life at Thalbach in Bregenz (3/10/25)
• Satire, Sound, and Swine: The 2009 Flu Pandemic Goes (Musically) Viral (3/6/25)
• My Late Lamented “Everything Notebook” (3/3/25)
• The Seelengärtlein (Hortulus animae) 3/2/25 
• Flu Music as Mockery: The Flying Fish Sailors and Pandemic Humor (2/26/25) 
  
• Building for the Ear (from Chaco Canyon to Medieval Vorarlberg) (2/23/25)
  
• Mapping Soundscapes: Applying Stratoudakis and Papadimitriou’s Measures to Memory and Place (2/21/25)
• Sister Anna Wittweilerin Looks Up  (2/19/25)
• Making magic with old texts – how one scholar uses Transkribus (2/16/25)  
• Diligent Devotion: Maria Euphrosina Vöglin’s Leadership at Thalbach (2/14/25)
• Singing Tubercular songs with Fader Movitz (Fredman’s Epistles 1790) (Feb 11, 2025) 
• Not a Village, a Community: Building Thalbach’s Church (1609) (1/29/25)
• Singing & Change on World Leprosy Day (1/26/25)  
• When a 6-year-old brought a Marian Icon to Thalbach (1/22/25)
  
• Margery Kempe Listens (1/19/25)  
• News-as-Opera: Shenton/Steyer’s On Call: COVID-19 (2021) (1/17/25) 
• Documenting Lepers’ Lives: The House is Black (1962) (1/11/25)
  
• To Banish the Earworm: "If We Were Married" by Shaina Taub (1/8/25) 
• 2024 Silences and Sounds (12/31/24)
  
• Writing is momentum (12/28/24)  
• “Aged documents” in the Thalbach Monastery Chronicle (12/16/24) 
• Starting from a place of blah (12/11/24)  
• “Bulgy enlargement” and medieval hearing loss: Insights from Flohr and Kierdorf (2022) 
• Smooth or Spiky? November’s Sound Samples (12/2/24)  
• There is no quiet, no silence anywhere within! (11/28/24) 
  
• 19th Century poetic earlids and the Ovid rumor-mill (11/26/24)

• Earlids of the early 1900s (11/21/2024)

• Soundscape compositions, Chicago style (11/16/24)
  

• I am (not) a crocodile: Earlids and the thinking person (11/15/24) 
  

• Manipulations of reality’s sounds: Drever on Soundscape Composition (11/6/24)

• It’s not time travel: sound modeling of 1622 St Paul’s (10/31/24)

• Scoring for Calm or for Excitement? Smalley et al. (2023) on choices of sound in digital nature experiences (10/25/24)

• The Silence of Not-Writing – and What To Do About It (10/20/24)

• Political Scientist Sean Gray’s typology of political silences (10/13/24)

• Some Further Silences of Christina Rossetti (10/12/24)

• Summer’s Soundscape Research--by the Numbers (10/6/24)

• Christina Rossetti and the contemplation of silence (10/5/24)

• Why Silence (10/4/24)
  

• Why Sound? (9/30/24)

• Introduction (9/29/24)