How are music and sound involved in the creation of audiovisual documents? What kind of quantitative and qualitative research permits the examination of music and, more generally, sound for Austrian (music) history on the basis of digitized audiovisual sources? These questions were approached in the interdisciplinary Digital Humanities project “Telling Sounds” at the Universität für Musik…
The experience of a small-town German doctor would, in the mid-1870s, starta formidable transfusion craze. Oscar Hasse of Nordhausen am Harz triedtransfusion with lamb blood on fifteen patients, reported positive results inmeetings and publications, and suddenly hundreds of lamb blood transfu-sions were made in clinics, hospitals and lunatic asylums across Europe andthe USA. ‘The blood of lam…