The Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus Scops) is the only European owl that undertakes a long migration from south of the Sahara desert up to southern and eastern Europe to breed in the early Spring. 

This recording was made late at night on the Old Golf Course of Mandelieu La Napoule. A number of Scops Owls were calling to one another from the trees around the golf course. 

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s
11.04.2021

Image courtesy of Frank Vassen (Creative Commons)

Eurasian Scops Owls - Mandelieu La Napoule, France

This lecture was given to the Graduate Chapter of the Thomistic Institute at Brown University on October 5, 2017.

The Compatibility of Neuroscience And The Soul | Prof. James Madden

A lecture given by Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP at a conference at Duke Divinity School entitled "Catholic Theology and the Modern University" - February 23, 2018.

Seeking Universality in Truth, Goodness & Beauty | Fr. Thomas Joseph White

Ghosts of Sine and Vine [disquiet0326]

Several tracks of staked warbling sine waves produced in pure data. These use mutiple sine waves with the shifting volumes to give a warbling effect. Some of the bassier tracks had a side chained beat pumping them using an expander gate- this was in time with the end-of-vinyl click sample. some other added crackle  and click samples . Compiled in pro tools. Only two of the drone tracks had delay/reverb the rest of the tracks are dry.

Samples:

https://freesound.org/people/DanielsonIII/sounds/68400/
https://freesound.org/people/ludvique/sounds/71854/

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Ghost Of Sine And Vine

This lecture was given by Prof. Gaven Kerr at University College Dublin's Newman Building on 19 September 2019.

About the Speaker:
Gaven Kerr is a married father of three and a third order Dominican. He has degrees in scholastic philosophy and philosophy from Queen’s University Belfast: BA, MPhil, and PhD. His doctoral research was on the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant. Gaven currently teaches theology at Mary Immaculate College Limerick.

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God, Evolution, and the Big Bang: The Theology of Creation according to Aquinas | Prof. Gaven Kerr

For this haiku:

Harvest moon,
And mist creeping
Over the water.

Piano, treated field recording soundscapes and synthesizers by Daniel Diaz, Paris, Friday 26th June 2020.
Voices courtesy of NASA

Poem by Hattori Ransetsu 
Photo by NASA


https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/06/24/naviarhaiku338-harvest-moon/
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The Moon (naviarhaiku338)

This lecture was presented by the campus chapter of the Thomistic Institute at Stanford University on October 4, 2019.

Prof. Alexander Pruss has doctorates both in philosophy and mathematics, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. His books include "The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment" (Cambridge University Press), "One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics" (Notre Dame University Press), and "Actuality, Possibility and Worlds" (Continuum). His research areas include metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Christian ethics, philosophy of mathematics and formal epistemology.

Does God Exist? Defending the Divine Based on Reason | Prof. Alexander Pruss

Summer Conference

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum and Professor of Theology. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2003. His research and teaching have focused particularly on topics related to Thomistic metaphysics and Christology as well as Roman Catholic-Reformed ecumenical dialogue. His books include Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2009), The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015) Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016), and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (The Catholic University of America Press, 2017). He is co-editor of the academic journal Nova et Vetera and in 2011 was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 2019 Fr. White was named a McDonald Agape Foundation Distinguished Scholar.

Happiness according to Aquinas | Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:
Father Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a Kansas farm. He entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 1995 and professed simple vows the following year. He made his profession of solemn vows in the Great Jubilee Year of 2000, and was ordained a deacon in 2001 and a priest in 2002.

His assignments have included serving as a parochial vicar in Rhode Island, a missionary in Kenya, a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, a formator at the Dominican House of Studies, and a member of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. He is finishing a book titled The Word in Our Flesh: A Return to Patristic Preaching, whose research the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship funded through its Teacher-Scholar Grant.

God in St. Augustine's Confessions | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

Disquiet Challenge 455: A moment in the day of a Jellyfish.
Equipment used:
Qu-Bit Electronix Chord V1, Nebulae v2, Prism.
Random Source DUSG
2HP Mix
Endorphins Milky Way (Ping Pong Echo)
ALM HPO

Recorded in a single take to Ableton 10. Vallhalla Supermassive Reverb added plus EQ and Compression

Scanning An Ocean Of Sound (disquiet0455)

This has been a stormy fall, and in Finland has been already 40 days with stormy wind speeds as the average is 27 a year.  A small, but intense low pressure passed over creating wind speeds up to 31,3 m/s in the gusts and 27 m/s as average. 

I couldn’t resist recording this storm just in our backyard as it was evident when I opened the front door in the morning that this wind is going to make damage. (The picture)

Recording storms creates mostly undefined white noise that’s not very pleasant to listen. But it seems, that when the wind gets hard enough, there occurs (more or less) strange noise patterns with regular shapes that can make it sound interesting. 

In situ I could hear cars passing and chainsaws running.  I hope there’s a bit of this weird noise left in this recording, at least when listening with headphones.

And yes, when the gusts were as strongest, two trees come down. One pine on the roof of our neighbors sauna building 6.50 and an other one with the tree trunk breaking 8.28 

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, nothing done in edit, 24/48 flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Storm in my Backyard - 19/11/2020 - Makholma Finland

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God, Evolution, and the Big Bang: The Theology of Creation according to Aquinas | Prof. Gaven Kerr

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