Research output per year
Research output per year
Grant-funded Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies
Research activity per year
My research areas bridge together sound studies, soundscape, sound design, and sound anthropology, spanning versatile aspects of sound studies.
My book A Theory of Multicultural Texts: The Music of Erik Bergman As a Phenomenon of Multicultural Europe was released in September 2016. Bringing together semiotics, musicology, and cultural anthropology, it proposes a theory of musical cultural mixtures, semiotically defined as multicultural texts, develops conceptual framework and analytical tools to approach them, and closely examines works of Erik Bergman, the father of Finnish modernism, as multicultural texts.
In parallel I have been conducting research on the relationship of image, sound and music objects in A. Tarkovsky’s films. In the recent years the focus expanded to the study of sound media, sound design, and creative process in twentieth-century Russia, via collaboration with the international research group Deceptive Arts. Machines, Magic, Media / Les Arts Trompeurs. Machines, Magie, Médias, hosted by LABEX Arts-H2H — The Laboratory of Excellence in Arts and Human Mediations, Paris/France, IRCAV Research Laboratory (Institute for Research on Cinema and Audiovisual Media, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3), and the Theremin Centre for Electroacoustic Music (Moscow).
One more large research area is devoted to exploration of cultural concepts and sacred forms of sound in non-European cultures based on ethnographic materials, cultural anthropology and findings of ethnomusicology, archaeomusicology and archaeoacoustics. The project develops via comparative study of myth, sound rituals, sacred singing and performance, and study of acoustics of sacred sites.
Musicology, PhD, University of Helsinki Doctoral School
Award Date: 25 Oct 2016
Associated Researcher, IRCAV, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
1 Jan 2018 → …
Lecturer, faculty member, Petrozavodsk State Conservatory
1 Sep 1997 → 31 Aug 2002
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products › Professional
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products › Professional
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products › Professional
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products › Scientific › peer-review
Hytönen-Ng, E., Kolltveit, G., Pekkanen, J., Shpinitskaya, Y., Vikman, N. & Rainio, R.
02/12/2022 → 01/12/2027
Project: Foundations (Private Foundations, Non-Profit Foundations, Charitable Trusts)
01/01/2017 → …
Project: Research project
01/09/2006 → …
Project: Research project
01/09/2021 → 31/08/2023
Project: Research project
Yulia Shpinitskaya (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
Yulia Shpinitskaya (Speaker) & Riitta Rainio (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Yulia Shpinitskaya (Participant), Gjermund Kolltveit (Participant) & Lyubov Liski (Participant)
Activity: Other activity types › Types for other activities - Other
Yulia Shpinitskaya (Invited speaker), Riitta Rainio (Invited speaker) & Jami Pekkanen (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Yulia Shpinitskaya (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Riitta Rainio & Yulia Shpinitskaya
01/05/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Riitta Rainio, Kristiina Mannermaa, Evgeny Girya, Dmitry Gerasimov, Tom Björklund, Yulia Shpinitskaya & Juha Valkeapää
25/06/2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Riitta Rainio, Kristiina Mannermaa, Evgeny Girya, Dmitry Gerasimov, Tom Björklund, Yulia Shpinitskaya & Juha Valkeapää
03/06/2021 → 21/06/2021
42 items of Media coverage, 1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Riitta Rainio, Kristiina Mannermaa, Evgeny Girya, Dmitry Gerasimov, Tom Björklund, Yulia Shpinitskaya & Juha Valkeapää
13/06/2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Riitta Rainio, Kristiina Mannermaa, Evgeny Girya, Dmitry Gerasimov, Tom Björklund, Yulia Shpinitskaya & Juha Valkeapää
11/06/2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media