In this article, we introduce some of the first steps taken in a new research project called Sacr... more In this article, we introduce some of the first steps taken in a new research project called Sacred Sound and Ritual Soundscapes in Historical and Contemporary Fennoscandia: Acoustic Measurements, Ethnographic Research and Foundations for Cultural Echology. It proposes that sound waves projecting from environmental interfaces are far from being insignificant background elements, but active parts of the environment and our relationship with it. The new project will trace practices related to acoustics from the history of Fennoscandia, primarily from Finnish and indigenous Sámi traditions comparing the larger Finno-Ugric heritage also to the west of Fennoscandia, namely Norway. Practically, the study concentrates on acoustic measurements in echoing spaces in natural settings. We are interested in specific spaces, the use of them in collective rituals and events as well as more private encounters. Ethnographic participatory methods are used to be able to describe people's relationship with their historical, cultural and more-thanhuman elements and environments. This article gives examples of the testimonies of two persons interviewed. In the footsteps of acoustic ecology, listening and sensing are considered important skills and activities. The cultural echology approach, then also looks for possibilities that may activate more lively and conscious "echological transformations.
This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics edited by John Richards... more This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. Soundscape concepts have been employed for more than 20 years to enrich audiovisual studies. They have also been debated extensively. This chapter addresses soundscape as shifting, processual, historical, and produced in contingent situations. It focuses on a specific aspect of methodology that is useful for considering how to advance research on the audiovisual: methods in motion. Soundscape studies have stressed that researchers sometimes need to leave the “laboratory” and venture into fieldwork. Some of the recent developments in the “marriage” of soundscape and audiovisual studies are described, with three goals: (1) to direct attention to soundscape studies as the art and scholarly study of listening, (2) to introduce the sensory memory walk, and (3) to introduce the listening walk. Sound studies are increasingly employed as a basis for developing multisensory methodologies of studying times, spaces, and materialities to relocate sensate users of space at the center of the researcher’s attention.
This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson... more This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. Soundscape concepts have been employed for more than 20 years to enrich audiovisual studies. They have also been debated extensively. This chapter addresses soundscape as shifting, processual, historical, and produced in contingent situations. It focuses on a specific aspect of methodology that is useful for considering how to advance research on the audiovisual: methods in motion. Soundscape studies have stressed that researchers sometimes need to leave the “laboratory” and venture into fieldwork. Some of the recent developments in the “marriage” of soundscape and audiovisual studies are described, with three goals: (1) to direct attention to soundscape studies as the art and scholarly study of listening, (2) to introduce the sensory memory walk, and (3) to introduce the listening walk. Sound studies are increasingly employed as a basis for develo...
Musiikki, ääni ja hyvinvointi -symposium on eri tieteenalojen tutkijoiden sekä taiteen ja hyvinvo... more Musiikki, ääni ja hyvinvointi -symposium on eri tieteenalojen tutkijoiden sekä taiteen ja hyvinvointialan toimijoiden kohtaamispaikka, joka järjestettiin ensimmäisen kerran Joensuussa syyskuussa 2019. Tarkoitus on tarjota foorumi äänen vaikutuksista ja tutkimustulosten soveltamisesta kiinnostuneiden ja hyvinvointipalvelujen parissa toimivien ammattilaisten ajatustenvaihdolle sekä luoda ymmärrystä kokonaisvaltaisemman hyvinvoinnin aspekteista. Symposiumissa kulttuurisia merkityksiä ja koettua hyvinvointia on tuotu esiin monitieteisessä kontekstissa. Kulttuurin ja äänimaiseman tutkimus laajentaa ymmärrystä hyvinvoinnin edistämisestä kehollisena ja ympäristöön liittyvänä kokemuksena.
Viimeisen kahden vuosikymmenen aikana taiteeseen ja taidetoimintaan on kohdistunut erityistä kiin... more Viimeisen kahden vuosikymmenen aikana taiteeseen ja taidetoimintaan on kohdistunut erityistä kiinnostusta, kun taiteen hyvinvointi- ja terveysvaikutuksia on katsottu aiempaa monipuolisemmista suunnista. Aihepiiri ei historiallisesti katsottuna ole uusi, sillä jo antiikissa kreikkalaiset oivalsivat taiteen parantavat ja terveyttä vaalivat voimat. Aristoteleen katharsiksen käsite on yksi tunnetuimmista termeistä, joilla taiteen puhdistavaa vaikutusta on kuvattu. Aristoteleelle tämä tarkoitti erityisesti tragedian tuottamaa voimakasta tunnekokemusta. Käsite itsessään oli lainattu lääketieteestä.
Five village soundscapes toim./ed. R. M. Schafer. kirjan liitteina olevista CD-levyista kaksi lii... more Five village soundscapes toim./ed. R. M. Schafer. kirjan liitteina olevista CD-levyista kaksi liittyy teokseen Acoustic environments in change ja kaksi teokseen Five village soundscapes. Five villages soundscapes. 1st ed. Vancouver : A.R.C. Publications, cop. 1977.
This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson... more This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. Soundscape concepts have been employed for more than 20 years to enrich audiovisual studies. They have also been debated extensively. This chapter addresses soundscape as shifting, processual, historical, and produced in contingent situations. It focuses on a specific aspect of methodology that is useful for considering how to advance research on the audiovisual: methods in motion. Soundscape studies have stressed that researchers sometimes need to leave the “laboratory” and venture into fieldwork. Some of the recent developments in the “marriage” of soundscape and audiovisual studies are described, with three goals: (1) to direct attention to soundscape studies as the art and scholarly study of listening, (2) to introduce the sensory memory walk, and (3) to introduce the listening walk. Sound studies are increasingly employed as a basis for developing multisensory methodologies of studying times, spaces, and materialities to relocate sensate users of space at the center of the researcher’s attention.
In this article, we introduce some of the first steps taken in a new research project called Sacr... more In this article, we introduce some of the first steps taken in a new research project called Sacred Sound and Ritual Soundscapes in Historical and Contemporary Fennoscandia: Acoustic Measurements, Ethnographic Research and Foundations for Cultural Echology. It proposes that sound waves projecting from environmental interfaces are far from being insignificant background elements, but active parts of the environment and our relationship with it. The new project will trace practices related to acoustics from the history of Fennoscandia, primarily from Finnish and indigenous Sámi traditions comparing the larger Finno-Ugric heritage also to the west of Fennoscandia, namely Norway. Practically, the study concentrates on acoustic measurements in echoing spaces in natural settings. We are interested in specific spaces, the use of them in collective rituals and events as well as more private encounters. Ethnographic participatory methods are used to be able to describe people's relationship with their historical, cultural and more-thanhuman elements and environments. This article gives examples of the testimonies of two persons interviewed. In the footsteps of acoustic ecology, listening and sensing are considered important skills and activities. The cultural echology approach, then also looks for possibilities that may activate more lively and conscious "echological transformations.
This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics edited by John Richards... more This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. Soundscape concepts have been employed for more than 20 years to enrich audiovisual studies. They have also been debated extensively. This chapter addresses soundscape as shifting, processual, historical, and produced in contingent situations. It focuses on a specific aspect of methodology that is useful for considering how to advance research on the audiovisual: methods in motion. Soundscape studies have stressed that researchers sometimes need to leave the “laboratory” and venture into fieldwork. Some of the recent developments in the “marriage” of soundscape and audiovisual studies are described, with three goals: (1) to direct attention to soundscape studies as the art and scholarly study of listening, (2) to introduce the sensory memory walk, and (3) to introduce the listening walk. Sound studies are increasingly employed as a basis for developing multisensory methodologies of studying times, spaces, and materialities to relocate sensate users of space at the center of the researcher’s attention.
This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson... more This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. Soundscape concepts have been employed for more than 20 years to enrich audiovisual studies. They have also been debated extensively. This chapter addresses soundscape as shifting, processual, historical, and produced in contingent situations. It focuses on a specific aspect of methodology that is useful for considering how to advance research on the audiovisual: methods in motion. Soundscape studies have stressed that researchers sometimes need to leave the “laboratory” and venture into fieldwork. Some of the recent developments in the “marriage” of soundscape and audiovisual studies are described, with three goals: (1) to direct attention to soundscape studies as the art and scholarly study of listening, (2) to introduce the sensory memory walk, and (3) to introduce the listening walk. Sound studies are increasingly employed as a basis for develo...
Musiikki, ääni ja hyvinvointi -symposium on eri tieteenalojen tutkijoiden sekä taiteen ja hyvinvo... more Musiikki, ääni ja hyvinvointi -symposium on eri tieteenalojen tutkijoiden sekä taiteen ja hyvinvointialan toimijoiden kohtaamispaikka, joka järjestettiin ensimmäisen kerran Joensuussa syyskuussa 2019. Tarkoitus on tarjota foorumi äänen vaikutuksista ja tutkimustulosten soveltamisesta kiinnostuneiden ja hyvinvointipalvelujen parissa toimivien ammattilaisten ajatustenvaihdolle sekä luoda ymmärrystä kokonaisvaltaisemman hyvinvoinnin aspekteista. Symposiumissa kulttuurisia merkityksiä ja koettua hyvinvointia on tuotu esiin monitieteisessä kontekstissa. Kulttuurin ja äänimaiseman tutkimus laajentaa ymmärrystä hyvinvoinnin edistämisestä kehollisena ja ympäristöön liittyvänä kokemuksena.
Viimeisen kahden vuosikymmenen aikana taiteeseen ja taidetoimintaan on kohdistunut erityistä kiin... more Viimeisen kahden vuosikymmenen aikana taiteeseen ja taidetoimintaan on kohdistunut erityistä kiinnostusta, kun taiteen hyvinvointi- ja terveysvaikutuksia on katsottu aiempaa monipuolisemmista suunnista. Aihepiiri ei historiallisesti katsottuna ole uusi, sillä jo antiikissa kreikkalaiset oivalsivat taiteen parantavat ja terveyttä vaalivat voimat. Aristoteleen katharsiksen käsite on yksi tunnetuimmista termeistä, joilla taiteen puhdistavaa vaikutusta on kuvattu. Aristoteleelle tämä tarkoitti erityisesti tragedian tuottamaa voimakasta tunnekokemusta. Käsite itsessään oli lainattu lääketieteestä.
Five village soundscapes toim./ed. R. M. Schafer. kirjan liitteina olevista CD-levyista kaksi lii... more Five village soundscapes toim./ed. R. M. Schafer. kirjan liitteina olevista CD-levyista kaksi liittyy teokseen Acoustic environments in change ja kaksi teokseen Five village soundscapes. Five villages soundscapes. 1st ed. Vancouver : A.R.C. Publications, cop. 1977.
This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson... more This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. Soundscape concepts have been employed for more than 20 years to enrich audiovisual studies. They have also been debated extensively. This chapter addresses soundscape as shifting, processual, historical, and produced in contingent situations. It focuses on a specific aspect of methodology that is useful for considering how to advance research on the audiovisual: methods in motion. Soundscape studies have stressed that researchers sometimes need to leave the “laboratory” and venture into fieldwork. Some of the recent developments in the “marriage” of soundscape and audiovisual studies are described, with three goals: (1) to direct attention to soundscape studies as the art and scholarly study of listening, (2) to introduce the sensory memory walk, and (3) to introduce the listening walk. Sound studies are increasingly employed as a basis for developing multisensory methodologies of studying times, spaces, and materialities to relocate sensate users of space at the center of the researcher’s attention.
"In 1975, the Canadian World Soundscape Project research group visited five European villages. Th... more "In 1975, the Canadian World Soundscape Project research group visited five European villages. The villages, located in Sweden, Germany, Italy, France and Scotland were re-visited by the Finnish Acoustic Environments in Change project group, in the years 2000-2004, in order to study the changes in village soundscapes and undertake new approaches on the subject. In addition, the village of Nauvo in Finland was studied.
AEC formed one of the most extensive soundscape projects since the original World Soundscape Projects of 1970s. The project accumulated a large source of practical knowledge about grass roots level soundscapes of six European countries through narratives, memory and transitional documents. The collected data is presented and interpreted in the forthcoming publication. The work is based on international, multi-disciplinary studies of changes in the soundscapes. The study included European researchers, artists, journalists, local inhabitants and Canadian pioneers of soundscape studies. All share an interest in the relationships between soundscapes, the environment, and its various inhabitants."
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AEC formed one of the most extensive soundscape projects since the original World Soundscape Projects of 1970s. The project accumulated a large source of practical knowledge about grass roots level soundscapes of six European countries through narratives, memory and transitional documents. The collected data is presented and interpreted in the forthcoming publication. The work is based on international, multi-disciplinary studies of changes in the soundscapes. The study included European researchers, artists, journalists, local inhabitants and Canadian pioneers of soundscape studies. All share an interest in the relationships between soundscapes, the environment, and its various inhabitants."