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Our team effort ”Background music cultures in Finnish urban life” is soon out from Cambridge University Press! We expect the online version to be openly available on April 30th. (UPDATE: it’s already out!) This is a result of a four-year project with my absolutely fabulous colleagues Heikki Uimonen and Kaarina Kilpiö. The front cover is… Continue reading Book coming out soon! (update: it’s out!) →

Very happy to announce that our NOS-HS funded Nordic network will continue under the European Association of Social Anthropologists: https://www.easaonline.org/networks/sensory_media/ The first network meeting group photo, Copenhagen 2022. Our aim is to bring the subfields of media anthropology and sensory anthropology into sustained dialogue, facilitating an integrated theorisation of media and the sensory. For contact,… Continue reading Sensory Media Anthropology Network now in EASA →

The double bass swinging away. Picture: Jouni Porsanger I was invited by Lauri Sallinen and Karita Tikka, the artistic directors of the Silence festival at Kaukonen village near Kittilä, to make and perform a soundscape piece at a small log cabin called "Villa Magia". The festival is running on it's 13th year, a mixture of… Continue reading Performance piece at Silence festival →

Last Summer I was lucky to be invited to work with fema group (Hanna Kahrola, Tuija Touhunen, Anna Kupari). I acted as a "conversational shoulder" in the group, discussing about soundscape, public space, feminist methodologies, situational knowledge, the night time, wolves, epidemics, things like that. I'm planning to write about what we did in more… Continue reading Peculiar nocturnal animals →

References to the lecture: Bassett, Caroline & Ben Roberts 2019. Automation now and then: Automation fevers, anxieties and utopias. New Formations. DOI: 10.3898/newF:98.02.2019 Beer, David 2010. Mobile music, coded objects and everyday spaces. Mobilities 5: 4, 469–484.  Bijsterveld, Karin 2018. Mechanical Sound. Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Bucher, Taina… Continue reading “Talk to the machine: Listening to smart spaces” at Sound Environment Centre, Lund University →

This is a list of links to online content (audio, pictures, text, "media") documenting and commenting on the sonic environment during Spring 2020. EDIT: Additions from Spring 2021 are in green.] As there is a huge amount of content scattered in the web, this is not in any way close to being exhaustive but a… Continue reading Pandemia + Sound/Music + Environment: list of web content from Spring 2020 [and 2021] →