Personlig profil
Meritförteckning
Anthropologist, field recordist and filmmaker, through interdisciplinary scholarship and artistic practice I explore how relations between human communities and environments emerge through listening, sounding, and their entanglement with ecological change and power. My work mainly moves between my maternal community in Campidano (Sardinia) and the ancestral and unceded lands of the Sámi, in the European Arctic—geographies where local ways of listening respond to and resist state-driven resource extraction in different yet resonant ways.
My main research interests include ‘more-than-music’, Indigenous acoustemologies, mosquito musicking, biocultural heritage, multimodal field recording, and sustainable soundscape conservation. Across fieldwork, academic venues, and art spaces, my work asks how we might create space for other-than-human voices that are systematically excluded from colonial systems of value, yet act as constitutive participants in shared heritages and increasingly conflictual sound worlds.
I enjoy working with multimodal approaches to field recording and engaging diverse open-science practices, including documentary films, podcasts, audio anthologies, and sound installations. Across these outputs, co-authorship is central to how I work, guiding a commitment to transparent intellectual property and to local self-determination over knowledge, heritage, and education.
Utbildning / akademisk kvalifikation
Indigenous Studies, PhD, More-than-music. Echosystems, acoustemologies and histories of listening from Sápmi, Helsingfors universitet
1 jan. 2023 → 29 apr. 2025
Tilldelningsdatum: 29 apr. 2025
Anthropology and Ecology of Sound, PhD, More-than-music. Echosystems, acoustemologies and histories of listening from Sápmi, University of Bologna, Italy
1 nov. 2021 → 19 mars 2025
Tilldelningsdatum: 19 mars 2025
Ethnomusicology, MA, Sounds like Sápmi. Ecological perspectives in the musical narration of the landscape, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Tilldelningsdatum: 9 juli 2021
Externa befattningar
Adjunct Professor in Anthropology of Sound, University of Turin
2025 → mars 2026
Doctoral Researcher, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
nov. 2021 → …
Vetenskapsgrenar
- 5143 Social- och kulturantropologi
- 6131 Teater, dans, musik, övrig scenkonst
- 615 Historia och arkeologi
- 119 Övrig naturvetenskap
Samarbeten och ledande forskningsområden under de senaste fem åren
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An Ode to Culex: Listening with Mosquitoes, from Virgil to Sápmi
Renzi, N., 2026, Listening to the Swan Song. More-than-Human Beings and Sounds in Literature and Culture Through the Ages. Kociumbas, P. & Godlewicz-Adamiec, J. (red.). V & R Unipress, s. 133-164 31 s. (Culture – Environment – Society. Humanities and beyond).Forskningsoutput: Kapitel i bok/rapport/konferenshandling › Kapitel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review
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Sámi Ethnoentomology and the More-than-Musical Aesthetic of Mosquitoes
Renzi, N. & Utsi, M.-B., 2026, I: AAWM music and nature. 2026, 1Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review
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Ecologia e inquinamento acustico
Renzi, N., 2025, 4 s. Rome : Istituto per l'enciclopedia Italiana Giovanni Treccani.Forskningsoutput: Övriga bidrag › Peer review
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More-than-music. Echosystems, acoustemologies and histories of listening from Sápmi
Renzi, N., 2025, University of Helsinki. 294 s.Forskningsoutput: Avhandling › Doktorsavhandling › Monografi
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Rethinking Silence within Arctic Echosystems: (with stories by Inger-Mari Aikio, Mathis Eira and Ellen-Johanne Kvalsvik)
Renzi, N., 2024, I: Etnografie Sonore/ Sound Ethnographies. 7, 1-2, s. 13 42 s., 1.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review
Öppen tillgångFil
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MultiBEING: Multibeing Justice in Indigenous Societies
Virtanen, P. K. (Projektledare), Fedina, M. (deltagare), Laiti, O. K. (deltagare), Renzi, N. (deltagare), Apurinã, F. (Deltagare), Bigá, J. (Deltagare), Cruz Pereira, C. R. (Deltagare), Edygarova, S. (Deltagare), Grünthal, R. (Deltagare), Korja, S. K. (Deltagare), Laiti, O. K. (Deltagare), Peemot, V. (Deltagare), Porsanger, J. (Deltagare), Pärssinen, M. (Deltagare), Frost, M. (Annan) & von der Pütten, T. (Annan)
01/01/2026 → 31/12/2028
Projekt: Dinlands Akademi: Spetsforskningsenhet
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ECHOFRIENDLY: acoustemological models and ICT tools for soundscape preservation and ecoacoustic quality assessment of living, working and recreational environments
Renzi, N. (deltagare), Meandri, I. (Vetenskaplig koordinator) & Staiti, D. (deltagare)
01/11/2023 → 31/10/2025
Projekt: Forskningsprojekt
Priser
Aktiviteter
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The Environmental Turn in Ethnomusicology: New Recording Technologies for a Plurality of Sound Worlds
Renzi, N. (!!Invited speaker)
2 feb. 2026Aktivitet: Typer för tal eller presentation › !!Invited talk
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Samskaping med meahcci i Sápmi (co-presenter: Mai Britt Utsi)
Renzi, N. (!!Invited speaker) & Utsi, M.-B. (!!Invited speaker)
14 mars 2026Aktivitet: Typer för tal eller presentation › !!Invited talk
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Sonic ecosystems and sustainability. From Ethnography to Machine Learning
Renzi, N. (Viceordförande för vetenskaplig kommitté)
28 jan. 2026Aktivitet: Typer för deltagande i eller organisering av evenemang › Arrangemang av och deltagande i konferens/workshop/kurs/seminarium
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Disturbance or presence? Loud Motor Sounds and the Sense of Place: A Comparison between Snowmobiles in Sápmi and Formula 1 in Emilia-Romagna
Renzi, N. (!!Invited speaker)
28 jan. 2026Aktivitet: Typer för tal eller presentation › !!Invited talk
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"Čuoikkariššu / Mosquito Shower" in the Arctic Art Forum V (2026)
Renzi, N. (Talare: Presentation) & Utsi, M.-B. (Talare: Presentation)
7 mars 2026 → 27 mars 2026Aktivitet: Typer för deltagande i eller organisering av evenemang › Arrangemang av och deltagande i konferens/workshop/kurs/seminarium