Opening of The Historical Ear Conference with @tincugelj.bsky.social

A bit of easy reading for Saturday morning, perhaps? Check out the new research blog post: soundship.uk/2025/11/15/a...

I've got a voice - might as well use it! Standing up for music and modern language departments everywhere ... #Nottingham karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/11/08/u...

Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx 'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.' Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.

This is awful news to come out of Nottingham. MedRen-ers will be aware that Nottingham has hosted three MedRens in 2012, 1985, and the first ever MedRen in 1972. Do consider signing the petition in the next post. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yay! SOUNDSHIP website is now live and has a research blog — a home for all the shipboard stuff that never makes it into articles and much more: sources, sounds, awkward early modern packing lists. First post is up, new ones every fortnight. Come aboard 👉 soundship.uk

@medren2025.bsky.social Another excellent musical evening, including Fretwork and voices performing consort music by Orlando Gibbons, and an unexpected Lampton Worm / dragon warded off with audience performance of chants to St Cuthbert 🐉

This Thursday, 15 May 2025, the IMS SG Auditory History will meet to discuss sounds of conflict, transcultural communities and liminality through three super exciting and engaging readings! 🪖 💥 ℹ️ Read more: auditoryhistory.musicology.org/event/readin... ℹ️ Register: forms.gle/XnZdEnrsPL7x...

Coming Tuesday, I will be talking about ships, communities, the sea, sounds, and pilgrims at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb - and I am absolutely delighted to! Join us if you are around on 29 April 2025 at 18:00. 🌊🔉

This week in Athens, featuring cats, cassocks, food, stunning architecture and M. Prætorius's Polyhymnia Caduceatrix ✨

I'm sorry to have missed all the fun on here but I failed to recover my password for way too long 🤡 Here's a couple of photos from our fabulous Sensory Histories of Water conference last week in Barcelona—it was fabulous. 🌊 Co-organised with @discantor87.bsky.social & Antonio Arnieri