Meri Kytö
FT, kulttuurisen äänentutkimuksen dosentti
meri.kyto@utu.fi +358 29 450 2810 +358 50 431 6280 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku Office: A374 Vastaanotto tiistaisin (sovi aika sähköpostitse) ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7877-5522(external) |
auditory culture, soundscape studies, ethnomusicology, sensory ethnography, urban studies
MA in Musicology (Univeristy of Turku, 2006)
PhD in Cultural Studies, especially ethnomusicology (University of Eastern Finland, 2013)
Associate professor (title of docent) in Auditory culture studies (University of Eastern Finland, 2018)
Before joining the University of Turku in 2022, I worked as a researcher at the Universities of Tampere, Eastern Finland, Copenhagen and London (Goldsmiths). In addition, I have lectured and taught at the following universities: Milano Bicocca, Copenhagen, Lund, Goldsmiths, Istanbul Technical, Anadolu, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble, RMIT Melbourne, SCAD Hong Kong, Aalto, University of the Arts Helsinki.
My own research and expertise has focused on the study of auditory culture and (urban) space. I did my MA on “Kassandra” by Iannis Xenakis, my PhD dissertation on the intersection of private and common soundscapes in urban space. I have studied sonic neighbourhood relations, the domestication of soundscapes, busking, football songs, film sound and its designers, soundscape composition, sonic etiquette, the soundscape of political demonstrations and libraries, hearing aid use and agency, and now most recently background music: as a Christmas season, in the context of well-being at work, and as an aurally diverse experience. I do qualitative research, ethnographic fieldwork, listening walks, interviews, observations. I seek to understand how sound is used and produced in different places, how it is listened to and understood, how it is sought to be influenced and how changes in it are responded to.
I am currently leading the Audible Future project (2024-2026) and I am part of a research team in the Academy of Finland funded SOMECO (Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening) project.
I am President of the Finnish Society for Musicology. I coordinate the EASA Sensory media anthropology network together with Nina Gronlykke Mollerup and Niamh Ni Bhroin. I am an editor of Seismograf journal. I have also edited Musiikki (2022-2024), the Yearbook of Ethnomusicology (2014-2017), the special issues of Musiikin suunta (Soundscape Studies, Music and Migration, Fantasy, Science Fiction and Game Music), and the anthologies Sata suomalaista äänimaisemaa, Acoustic Environments in Chance & Five Village Soundscapes and European Acoustic Heritage. The latest anthology Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat was selected as Tampere University Press' “Book of the Year”.
For musicology, I am responsible for the first year studies of the degree programme. I am also responsible for the courses “Analysis of Music and Sound”, “Popular Music” and “Auditory Culture Studies” at the undergraduate level and for the courses “Analysis of Music and Sound II” and “Auditory Culture Studies II” at the MA level. I also work as a supervisor of MA and doctoral theses.
- Taustamusiikkia työpaikalla -verkkokyselyn tutkimusaineisto (2023) Kytö Meri, Kilpiö Kaarina
(Other publication) - Abiturientit melun tietäjinä (2022) Kulttuurintutkimus tietämisen tapana Kytö Meri
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Musiikki 3/2022 (2022)
- Musiikki
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Musiikkia, politiikkaa, kannanottoja (2022)
- Musiikki
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Sesonkiäänimaisema kaupungissa (2022)
- Elore
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Soundscapes of Code: Cochlear Implant as Soundscape Arranger (2022) Aural Diversity Kytö Meri
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Hyvinvointi taustamusiikin kokemuksissa: palvelualalla toimivien näkemykset työskentelystä musiikin kanssa (2021)
- Musiikki
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Toimimatonta tekniikkaa ja alitajuista vaikuttamista (2020)
- Etnomusikologian vuosikirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in the Water Soundscape Composition Contest (2019) The Nature of Nordic Music Kytö Meri
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Futuristit puhtaan sävelen tyranniaa vastaan, uusien aistinautintojen puolesta! (2019)
- Tekniikan Waiheita: Teknik I Tiden
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mediated Soundscapes: Representations of the National in the Soundscape Call-in Programme "Äänien ilta" (2019) Music radio: building communities, mediating genres Kytö, Meri
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - The Senses and the City: Attention, Distraction and Media Technology in Urban Environments (2019) The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication Kytö Meri
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Urban Progress as Noise: a Commentary (2019)
- International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Sound transformations in space (2018) The Routledge companion to sound studies Kytö Meri
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Cultural Intimacy in the Practice of Sound Post-production in Turkish Yeşilçam Cinema (2017)
- The New Soundtrack
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat (2017) Uimonen Heikki, Kytö Meri, Ruohonen Kaisa
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - Etnomusikologian vuosikirjan merkitys musiikintutkimuksen alalle Suomessa (2014)
- Etnomusikologian vuosikirja
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Soundscapes of Istanbul in Turkish Film Soundtracks (2013) The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics Kytö, Meri
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Moderni kaupunkilaisuus akustisena järjestyksenä: istanbulilaisen taloyhtiön äänimaisemaetnografia (2011)
- Etnomusikologian vuosikirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kerrostalokodin akustemologiaa – yksityisen äänitilan rakentuminen (2010)
- Elore
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)