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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Flu Music as Mockery: The Flying Fish Sailors and Pandemic Humor

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Image from 1919 of three men in hospital beds, two with a head bandages Music is a multi-purpose tool, and I appreciate its role in public...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Building for the Ear (from Chaco Canyon to Medieval Vorarlberg) (2/23/25)

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An image of Chaco Canyon ruins from 2012 Note: The current blog post is in dialog with Primeau and Witt (2018), and draws on my own wander...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Mapping Soundscapes: Applying Stratoudakis and Papadimitriou’s Measures to Memory and Place

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A 3-way Venn diagram of Individual, Sound and Environment Stratoudakis, Constantinos and Kimon Papadimitriou 2007. “A Dynamic Interface for...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Sister Anna Wittweilerin Looks Up

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A comet and a winter scene from Bregenz, with the theme: Worry into joy In the early 17th century, Anna Wittweilerin was a Thalbach sister w...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Making magic with old texts – how one scholar uses Transkribus (2/16/25)

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A snippet of the Thalbach Chronicle (Bregenz VLA Thalbach Hs 9) and the logo/motto from Transkribus: "Unlock the past with Transkribus...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Diligent Devotion: Maria Euphrosina Vöglin’s Leadership at Thalbach

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Image of the Annunciation as a Thalbach monastic seal (from the hand of Euphrosina Vöglin) The women’s tertiary monastery of Thalbach in...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Singing Tubercular songs with Fader Movitz (Fredman’s Epistles 1790) (Feb 11, 2025)

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Image of Fader Moviz playing the viol with text bubble, "Movitz, your Consumption, it pulls you into the grave..." While those of...