Scott Trudell
@scotttrudell.bsky.social
my jams are poetry, drama, music, media studies, trans studies, and performance studies
at the Museo de Antropologia in Mexico City - extraordinary
August 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
at the Museo de Antropologia in Mexico City - extraordinary
It’s here! “Now I will do nothing but listen / To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.”
July 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It’s here! “Now I will do nothing but listen / To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.”
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Finally making the move to Bluesky! Stay tuned for more adventures in the archives and hot takes on Renaissance drama. 🔥🔥🔥 Here's a throwback to my visit to the prop stores of Shakespeare's Globe.
June 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Finally making the move to Bluesky! Stay tuned for more adventures in the archives and hot takes on Renaissance drama. 🔥🔥🔥 Here's a throwback to my visit to the prop stores of Shakespeare's Globe.
sometimes Bob Dylan really nails late capitalism: “Yeah, I was eating with the pigs off a fancy tray
I was told I was looking good and to have a nice day
It all seemed so proper, it all seemed so elite
Eating that absolute garbage while being so discreet”
I was told I was looking good and to have a nice day
It all seemed so proper, it all seemed so elite
Eating that absolute garbage while being so discreet”
June 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
sometimes Bob Dylan really nails late capitalism: “Yeah, I was eating with the pigs off a fancy tray
I was told I was looking good and to have a nice day
It all seemed so proper, it all seemed so elite
Eating that absolute garbage while being so discreet”
I was told I was looking good and to have a nice day
It all seemed so proper, it all seemed so elite
Eating that absolute garbage while being so discreet”
In Fez — twenty-five years after my first journey here
May 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
In Fez — twenty-five years after my first journey here
Another beautiful sentence in Aurora Mattia’s _The Fifth Wound_
May 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Another beautiful sentence in Aurora Mattia’s _The Fifth Wound_
“I never w[o]uld have gues[sed] that you work at the University of Maryland” — achievement unlocked
April 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
“I never w[o]uld have gues[sed] that you work at the University of Maryland” — achievement unlocked
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I want to share this absolutely beautiful song, written by my brilliant colleague @sjjackson32.bsky.social, and performed by @Peterhousecam.bsky.social choir, which featured today on BBC Radio 3 with former master Bridget Kendall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kll...
Never weather-beaten sail (Trilo), Simon Jackson
YouTube video by Peterhouse Choir
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April 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I want to share this absolutely beautiful song, written by my brilliant colleague @sjjackson32.bsky.social, and performed by @Peterhousecam.bsky.social choir, which featured today on BBC Radio 3 with former master Bridget Kendall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kll...
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I've updated the Printing in Prisons website! There's 2 new prison publications in the library, & I've interwoven short videos from my collaborator Roberto Gonzalez. Roberto responds to the historical archive drawing on his own experience of incarceration in Pennsylvania.
printinginprisons.org
printinginprisons.org
Printing in Prisons
printinginprisons.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I've updated the Printing in Prisons website! There's 2 new prison publications in the library, & I've interwoven short videos from my collaborator Roberto Gonzalez. Roberto responds to the historical archive drawing on his own experience of incarceration in Pennsylvania.
printinginprisons.org
printinginprisons.org
“It seems that it’s a philosopher’s job to say every word three times, its opposite twice and then the original word again, italicised.” (Patricia Lockwood, That Shape Am I, LRB)
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“It seems that it’s a philosopher’s job to say every word three times, its opposite twice and then the original word again, italicised.” (Patricia Lockwood, That Shape Am I, LRB)
Excited to see this in proofs! It's for a collection called 'Literature as Sound Studies' edited by the fabulous yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi. In it I declare my love for Thomas Dekker and his "wild propagation of laughing, hissing, thundering 'scurvynoise.'"
January 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Excited to see this in proofs! It's for a collection called 'Literature as Sound Studies' edited by the fabulous yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi. In it I declare my love for Thomas Dekker and his "wild propagation of laughing, hissing, thundering 'scurvynoise.'"
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A fascinating detail in my 1607 Graduale Romanum, printed in Antwerp: a correction pinned directly onto the sheet music with a brass pin! A 17th-century "Typo-fix" to adapt the liturgical chant to correct a printing error.
I 😍 these details!
#BookHistory #RareBooks #MusicHistory
I 😍 these details!
#BookHistory #RareBooks #MusicHistory
December 7, 2024 at 1:56 PM
A fascinating detail in my 1607 Graduale Romanum, printed in Antwerp: a correction pinned directly onto the sheet music with a brass pin! A 17th-century "Typo-fix" to adapt the liturgical chant to correct a printing error.
I 😍 these details!
#BookHistory #RareBooks #MusicHistory
I 😍 these details!
#BookHistory #RareBooks #MusicHistory
Anyone know what we know (if anything) about doubling practices in the EM children's companies? The work I know on doubling tends to be focused on the adult playing companies...
December 4, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Anyone know what we know (if anything) about doubling practices in the EM children's companies? The work I know on doubling tends to be focused on the adult playing companies...
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Today is the feast day of St Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Please enjoy this video of the French bass 😍 Nicolas Brooymans 😍 singing "Wondrous Machine" from Purcell's "Ode to St Cecilia.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1C...
Wondrous Machine Purcell
YouTube video by Nicolas Brooymans
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Today is the feast day of St Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Please enjoy this video of the French bass 😍 Nicolas Brooymans 😍 singing "Wondrous Machine" from Purcell's "Ode to St Cecilia.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1C...
Nifty coats of arms in a 1583 English translation of Urbanus Rhegius's Homily or Sermon on Good and Evil Angels. Spoiler alert: no way to tell whether angels are good or evil. photos from @folgerlibrary.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Nifty coats of arms in a 1583 English translation of Urbanus Rhegius's Homily or Sermon on Good and Evil Angels. Spoiler alert: no way to tell whether angels are good or evil. photos from @folgerlibrary.bsky.social
Lucinda Williams last night at the Lincoln Theater — luminous. What a legend.
November 20, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Lucinda Williams last night at the Lincoln Theater — luminous. What a legend.
Writing about a play called The Virgin Martyr today. It's full of insulting terms for a sanctimonious child angel: “petite garsoone,” “sweet Nit,” “demi-dandiprat,” “scuruy Puerilis,” ”pinke-an-eye Iacke-an Apes boy," “peaking chitface.”
November 20, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Writing about a play called The Virgin Martyr today. It's full of insulting terms for a sanctimonious child angel: “petite garsoone,” “sweet Nit,” “demi-dandiprat,” “scuruy Puerilis,” ”pinke-an-eye Iacke-an Apes boy," “peaking chitface.”
Thomas Churchyard on the feels when your parade is rained on: “we were all so dashed and washed, that it was a greater pastime to see vs looke like drowned Rattes, than to haue beheld the vttermost of the Shewes rehearsed.”
November 20, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Thomas Churchyard on the feels when your parade is rained on: “we were all so dashed and washed, that it was a greater pastime to see vs looke like drowned Rattes, than to haue beheld the vttermost of the Shewes rehearsed.”