History is not a mound of discrete moments of upheaval—the sudden upthrust of the ground we’re standing on, the catastrophe.

History is often simply detritus: A stash of letters, a collection of war-time incidences, what’s left after the fires burn.

History is liminal: it spirals into our present. In our current burning, imploding world, we converge our stories, unfolding quickly or gradually, sometimes unvoiced.

A witness.

A languid history is indolent, lethargic, fatigue-laden.

How ought we respond to the alarms when loss surrounds us?

On the dead bones (2025)

Writing, vocals and composition — audio & field sounds: Joan Schuman
Ancestral lore — Schuman family
Spun words /poetics from Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

On history, politics and other urgencies:
-Anne Michaels: Held
-Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century
-Omar El Akkad: One Day Everyone Will have Been Against This
-W.G. Sebald: On the Natural History of Destruction

Featured online, on air, in festivals:

2026 | Launguido, Electroacoustical Poetical Society artists, presented at Earlid, curator, Joan Schuman

2026 | Audio Buffet, WGXC-FM, Wave Farm — Feb. 2026

2025 | Electroacoustical Poetical Society (EAPS) commissioned for artist collective (broadcast theme: “Languido”) featuring works by Brian K. Price (USA), Joan Schuman (USA), Tony Brewer (USA), Gregory Whitehead (USA), Marjorie Van Halteren (France) – December 2025