In the website description, the authors ask the questions "how did hearing shape the experience of time across this period of change? How did the mechanical sounds of time affect relationships between technology and human agency?" This transdisciplinary project "aims to review the medieval and early-modern history of time through the lens of sound, bringing microhistorical methodologies into dialogue with global history, and contributing to the burgeoning fields of sound studies, the history of science and technology, and the history of temporalities."