Dr Milla Tiainen's research activity page
Books -
Chapters in books -
Articles in peer-reviewed journals -
Other articles in academic journals -
Reports, columns and interviews (selected) - Selected presentations in conferences and seminars
Reports, columns and interviews (selected) - Selected presentations in conferences and seminars
Books
Book manuscript on Becoming-Singer: Cartographies of Singing, Music-Making and Opera (under contract at University of Minnesota Press)
(2005) Säveltäjän sijainnit: Taiteilija, musiikki ja historiallinen kesto Paavo Heinisen ja Einojuhani Rautavaaran teksteissä ('Locating the Composer: Artist, Music, and Historical Persistence in the Texts of Paavo Heininen and Einojuhani Rautavaara'). Jyväskylä: Research Center for Contemporary Culture, 227 pp.
Edited books
(2005) Musiikin ja teatterin tekijöitä ('Reconfiguring the Author in Music and Theatre') eds. Taina Riikonen, Milla Tiainen & Marjaana Virtanen. Series: Acta Musicologica Fennica 25. Helsinki: The Finnish Musicological Society, 210 pp.
Book manuscript on Becoming-Singer: Cartographies of Singing, Music-Making and Opera (under contract at University of Minnesota Press)
(2005) Säveltäjän sijainnit: Taiteilija, musiikki ja historiallinen kesto Paavo Heinisen ja Einojuhani Rautavaaran teksteissä ('Locating the Composer: Artist, Music, and Historical Persistence in the Texts of Paavo Heininen and Einojuhani Rautavaara'). Jyväskylä: Research Center for Contemporary Culture, 227 pp.
Edited books
(2005) Musiikin ja teatterin tekijöitä ('Reconfiguring the Author in Music and Theatre') eds. Taina Riikonen, Milla Tiainen & Marjaana Virtanen. Series: Acta Musicologica Fennica 25. Helsinki: The Finnish Musicological Society, 210 pp.
Chapters in books
(Forthcoming 2012), The Primacy of Movement: Variation, Intermediality, and Biopolitics in Tero Saarinen's 'Hunt.' In Barbara Bolt and Estelle Barrett (eds), Carnal Knowledge: Towards a New Materialism Through the Arts. London: IB Tauris. With Jussi Parikka.
(2008) Towards Intensive Audiovisual Encounters: Interactions of Opera and Cinema. In Birdsall, Carolyn & Enns, Anthony (eds), Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
(2008) Corporeal Forces, Sexual Differentiations: New Materialist Perspectives on Music, Singing, and Subjectivity. In Mieszkowski, Sylvia et al. (eds), Sonic Interventions. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(2007) Taide, teoria ja liikkuva vuorovaikutus: Osallistuvan taiteentutkimuksen ratkaisuja. ('Art, Theory, and Living Interaction: Trajectories of Participatory Art Research'). In Pitkänen, Risto (ed.), Tutkija taiteilijana, taiteilija tutkijana ('Researcher as Artist, Artist as Researcher'). Jyväskylä: Research Center for Contemporary Culture, 13-65. With Katve-Kaisa Kontturi.
(2005) Ääni, ruumiillisuus, sukupuoli. Reittejä laulajien tekijyyteen taidemusiikkikulttuurissa ('Voice, Corporeality, Sexual difference: Paths to Singers' Agency in Art Music Culture'). In Riikonen, Taina, Tiainen, Milla & Virtanen, Marjaana (eds), Musiikin ja teatterin tekijöitä. Helsinki: The Finnish Musicological Society, 151-186.
(2005) Johdanto ('Introduction'). In Riikonen, Taina, Tiainen, Milla & Virtanen, Marjaana (eds), Musiikin ja teatterin tekijöitä. Helsinki: The Finnish Musicological Society, 7-28. With Marjaana Virtanen and Pia Houni.
(Forthcoming 2012), The Primacy of Movement: Variation, Intermediality, and Biopolitics in Tero Saarinen's 'Hunt.' In Barbara Bolt and Estelle Barrett (eds), Carnal Knowledge: Towards a New Materialism Through the Arts. London: IB Tauris. With Jussi Parikka.
(2008) Towards Intensive Audiovisual Encounters: Interactions of Opera and Cinema. In Birdsall, Carolyn & Enns, Anthony (eds), Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
(2008) Corporeal Forces, Sexual Differentiations: New Materialist Perspectives on Music, Singing, and Subjectivity. In Mieszkowski, Sylvia et al. (eds), Sonic Interventions. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(2007) Taide, teoria ja liikkuva vuorovaikutus: Osallistuvan taiteentutkimuksen ratkaisuja. ('Art, Theory, and Living Interaction: Trajectories of Participatory Art Research'). In Pitkänen, Risto (ed.), Tutkija taiteilijana, taiteilija tutkijana ('Researcher as Artist, Artist as Researcher'). Jyväskylä: Research Center for Contemporary Culture, 13-65. With Katve-Kaisa Kontturi.
(2005) Ääni, ruumiillisuus, sukupuoli. Reittejä laulajien tekijyyteen taidemusiikkikulttuurissa ('Voice, Corporeality, Sexual difference: Paths to Singers' Agency in Art Music Culture'). In Riikonen, Taina, Tiainen, Milla & Virtanen, Marjaana (eds), Musiikin ja teatterin tekijöitä. Helsinki: The Finnish Musicological Society, 151-186.
(2005) Johdanto ('Introduction'). In Riikonen, Taina, Tiainen, Milla & Virtanen, Marjaana (eds), Musiikin ja teatterin tekijöitä. Helsinki: The Finnish Musicological Society, 7-28. With Marjaana Virtanen and Pia Houni.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
(In preparation, invited) Feminist Affective Ontologies: Affect and the Post-Human in the Philosophy of Rosi Braidotti and Elizabeth Grosz, for Emotions, Space and Society
(In preparation, issue proposal accepted) The Voice as Transversal Rhythmics: Rethinking Vocalities in Contemporary Arts and Culture, for a special issue on 'Rhythm' for Body & Society, co-edited with Pasi Väliaho
(In preparation), Revisiting Voice as Medium and in Media: New Materialist Propositions, for The European Journal of Media Studies
(2007) Halun lauluja: Ruumis, affektit, ooppera ('Songs of Desire: Opera, Body, Affectivity'). Niin & Näin: Filosofinen Aikakauslehti ('Niin & Näin - A Philosophical Journal') 50: 2, 67-74.
(2006) Kohti materiaalisen ja uuden kulttuurianalyysia - tai representaation hyödystä ja haitasta elämälle ('Towards a Cultural Analysis of Materiality and the New; or, on the Uses and Misuses of 'Representation' '). Kulttuurintutkimus (Cultural studies) 23: 2, 3-20. With Jussi Parikka.
(2004) Taiteentutkimus ja materiaalisuuden haaste: Feministisiä suunnan avauksia ('Art Criticism and the Challenge of Materiality: Feminist Initiatives'). Kulttuurintutkimus (Cultural studies) 21: 3, 17-27. With Katve-Kaisa Kontturi.
(2002) Hengen ja ruumiin kamppailuja: Musiikin merkitykset Paavo Heinisen ja Einojuhani Rautavaaran teksteissä ('Struggles between Mind and Body: Meanings of Music in the Texts of Paavo Heininen and Einojuhani Rautavaara'). Musiikki (Music) 32: 1, 23-48.
(In preparation, invited) Feminist Affective Ontologies: Affect and the Post-Human in the Philosophy of Rosi Braidotti and Elizabeth Grosz, for Emotions, Space and Society
(In preparation, issue proposal accepted) The Voice as Transversal Rhythmics: Rethinking Vocalities in Contemporary Arts and Culture, for a special issue on 'Rhythm' for Body & Society, co-edited with Pasi Väliaho
(In preparation), Revisiting Voice as Medium and in Media: New Materialist Propositions, for The European Journal of Media Studies
(2007) Halun lauluja: Ruumis, affektit, ooppera ('Songs of Desire: Opera, Body, Affectivity'). Niin & Näin: Filosofinen Aikakauslehti ('Niin & Näin - A Philosophical Journal') 50: 2, 67-74.
(2006) Kohti materiaalisen ja uuden kulttuurianalyysia - tai representaation hyödystä ja haitasta elämälle ('Towards a Cultural Analysis of Materiality and the New; or, on the Uses and Misuses of 'Representation' '). Kulttuurintutkimus (Cultural studies) 23: 2, 3-20. With Jussi Parikka.
(2004) Taiteentutkimus ja materiaalisuuden haaste: Feministisiä suunnan avauksia ('Art Criticism and the Challenge of Materiality: Feminist Initiatives'). Kulttuurintutkimus (Cultural studies) 21: 3, 17-27. With Katve-Kaisa Kontturi.
(2002) Hengen ja ruumiin kamppailuja: Musiikin merkitykset Paavo Heinisen ja Einojuhani Rautavaaran teksteissä ('Struggles between Mind and Body: Meanings of Music in the Texts of Paavo Heininen and Einojuhani Rautavaara'). Musiikki (Music) 32: 1, 23-48.
Other articles in academic journals
(2005) Musiikkia ja kulttuuria yhteen saumaamassa: Poikkitieteisiä polemiikkeja musiikintutkimuksen ydinteemasta ('Intertwining Music and Culture'). Review article. Musiikki (Music) 35: 3, 101-110.
(2005) 'Laulava kuva: oopperan ja elokuvan yhdysliikkeet' ('Singing Image: Parallel Movements of Opera and Cinema'). Review article. Lähikuva (Close-up, a journal for the study of audiovisual culture) 3/2005: 63-74.
(2002) 'New Viewpoints, New Meanings: Cultural Musicology in Finland.' Finnish Music Quarterly 1/2002: 30-35.
(1998) Norsunluutornista ideoiden maailmaan: Taiteilijan ja luovuuden romanttiset representaatiot Einojuhani Rautavaaran teksteissä ('From the Ivory Tower to Ideal Spheres: Romantic Representations of Creativity and the Artist in the Texts of Einojuhani Rautavaara'). Musiikin suunta (Directions of Music) 3/1998: 33-38.
(2005) Musiikkia ja kulttuuria yhteen saumaamassa: Poikkitieteisiä polemiikkeja musiikintutkimuksen ydinteemasta ('Intertwining Music and Culture'). Review article. Musiikki (Music) 35: 3, 101-110.
(2005) 'Laulava kuva: oopperan ja elokuvan yhdysliikkeet' ('Singing Image: Parallel Movements of Opera and Cinema'). Review article. Lähikuva (Close-up, a journal for the study of audiovisual culture) 3/2005: 63-74.
(2002) 'New Viewpoints, New Meanings: Cultural Musicology in Finland.' Finnish Music Quarterly 1/2002: 30-35.
(1998) Norsunluutornista ideoiden maailmaan: Taiteilijan ja luovuuden romanttiset representaatiot Einojuhani Rautavaaran teksteissä ('From the Ivory Tower to Ideal Spheres: Romantic Representations of Creativity and the Artist in the Texts of Einojuhani Rautavaara'). Musiikin suunta (Directions of Music) 3/1998: 33-38.
Reports, columns and interviews (selected)
(2007) Feminism, Art, Deleuze and Darwin: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz. NORA - Nordic Journal of Women's Studies 15 (4): 246-256. With Katve-Kaisa Kontturi.
(2006) Nimimerkki, intentio ja joku kolmas. Niin & Näin - filosofinen aikakauslehti ('Niin & Näin - A Philosophical Journal') 49: 2, 112-115.
(2005) Kulttuurianalyysista, soonisuudesta ja tapojen muuttamisesta. ('On Sonic Interventions and Changing the Habits of Cultural Analysis'). Kulttuurintutkimus (Cultural studies) 20: 2, 47-49. With Jussi Parikka.
(2002) Monia musiikkeja ja lukutapoja: Feministinen musiikintutkimus - työryhmä Naistutkimuspäivillä 22-23.11.2002. ('Various Musics, Versatile Readings: Feminist Musicology at the Annual Women's Studies Conference'). Musiikki (Music) 32: 4.
(2007) Feminism, Art, Deleuze and Darwin: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz. NORA - Nordic Journal of Women's Studies 15 (4): 246-256. With Katve-Kaisa Kontturi.
(2006) Nimimerkki, intentio ja joku kolmas. Niin & Näin - filosofinen aikakauslehti ('Niin & Näin - A Philosophical Journal') 49: 2, 112-115.
(2005) Kulttuurianalyysista, soonisuudesta ja tapojen muuttamisesta. ('On Sonic Interventions and Changing the Habits of Cultural Analysis'). Kulttuurintutkimus (Cultural studies) 20: 2, 47-49. With Jussi Parikka.
(2002) Monia musiikkeja ja lukutapoja: Feministinen musiikintutkimus - työryhmä Naistutkimuspäivillä 22-23.11.2002. ('Various Musics, Versatile Readings: Feminist Musicology at the Annual Women's Studies Conference'). Musiikki (Music) 32: 4.
Selected presentations in conferences and seminars (2004 onward)
(2011) 'The Voice as Transversal Rhythmics: Rethinking Vocalities in Contemporary Arts and Culture,' Rhythm and Event, organised by the London Graduate School, King's Anatomy Theatre and Museum, 29 October. Invited talk.
(2011) 'Bodies in Movement and Transversal Relationscapes: Rethinking Music as Performance' International Symposium on Audiovisual Performance and Embodiment, University of Turku, Finland, 11-12 May. Invited talk.
(2011) 'Vocalities as Environmental Rhythmics on a Nature?Culture Continuum: Voice in a New Materialist Perspective' New Materialism: Naturecultures conference, Utrecht University, 7 April. Invited plenary talk.
(2011) 'An Aesthetic and Affective Turn? Propositions for a Cultural Study of Music beyond the Paradigm of Meaning.' Music Colloquium, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 6 April. Invited talk.
(2011) 'An Affective and Aesthetic Turn: Towards a Cultural Study of Music beyond the Paradigm of Meaning?' University of Cambridge, Music Colloquium, 23 February. Invited talk.
(2010) 'Music and Embodiment: From New Musicology to Radical Musicology?' ZKM Zentrum für Kunst and Medientechnologie (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, 6 December. Invited talk.
(2010) 'Voice as a Rhythmic Object' panel Artistic Rhythms I, Continue, Connect, Create: 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Amsterdam, 12-14 July 2010.
(2010) 'What is New Materialism?', New Materialisms and Digital Culture, Anglia Ruskin University, 21 June, available on Machinology blogspot.
(2009) 'Durational Bodies, Sonic Sex: Sounding Out an Operatic Feminism' 7th European Feminist Research Conference, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, June 4-6
(2009) 'Towards an Ethico-Aesthetics of Voice: Reconfiguring Vocality as Medium' ALSS Research Seminars, Anglia Ruskin University, December 2
(2008) 'The Primacy of Movement: Variation, Intermediality, and Biopolitics in Tero Saarinen's Dance Piece Hunt ' One or Several Deleuzes? The First International Deleuze Studies Conference, Cardiff University, Wales (UK), 11-13.8. With Jussi Parikka.
(2007) 'Towards Intensive Audiovisual Encounters: Assemblages of Opera and Cinema.' Research Seminar, Dept. of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK), December 12th.
(2006) 'Re-materializing Music: Singing Bodies and Feminist Methodology' (plenary talk). The international seminar Material Readings: Working with Feminist Methodologies, Dept. of Women's Studies, University of Turku, Finland, October 20th.
(2006) 'Transformative audiovisual encounters: Opera, Cinema, Technology.' Close Encounters, org. by SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts), University of Amsterdam, 13-16.6.
(2006) 'Halun lauluja: ruumis, affektit, ooppera.' ('Songs of desire: bodies, affectivity, opera.') Affektit, soinnit ja kulttuuriteoria -seminaari / the seminar Effects, sounds and cultural theory, org. by the Department of Media Studies and Eetos ry., University of Turku, Finland, May 23th.
(2005) 'Laulajat, koosteet, skitsogenesis. Feministinen musiikintutkimus ja Luciana Parisin sukupuolieron mikropolitiikka.' ('Singers, assemblages, schizogenesis: Feminist musicology and Luciana Parisi's micropolitics of sexual difference'). II National Conference in Cultural Studies, University of Tampere, Finland, 9.-10.12.
(2005) 'Neromyytin kritiikistä tekijöiden moneuteen - musiikin tekijä-tutkimuksen muuttuvat kentät' ('From the Critique of Genius to a Multiplicity of Makers - Shifting Views of Authorship in Music Scholarship'). Seminar on the concept of the Author, org. by Eetos ry., Turku, 25.10.
(2005) 'Re-conceptualising the Author in Music: Musicology and Changing Theories of Authorship.' The international conference Dimensions of Authorship, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 1.-3.9.
(2005) 'A thousand mobile bodily voices: Interbreeding Deleuze, feminism, and opera.' The seminar Deleuze and Music, org. by Prof. Rosi Braidotti & Prof. Anneke Smelik. Dept. of Women's Studies, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 24th.
(2005) 'Corporeal forces, auditory flows: Re-conceptualizing 'classical' singing,' Sonic Interventions: Pushing the Boundaries of Cultural Analysis, org. by the University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, 29.-31.3.
(2004) 'On the Surfaces of Music: Reflections on Singing, Performance, and Corporeality.' Research seminar with film music scholar Anahid Kassabian (Fordham University, USA), Dept. of Musicology, University of Turku, Finland, November 23th.
(2004) 'Music, visual arts, and practices of materiality: Interdisciplinary dynamics of feminist fieldwork.' The conference Interdisciplinary landscapes: Post-feminist practices in the arts, University College Northampton, UK, 16-18.9. With Katve-Kaisa Kontturi.
(2004) 'Singing corporeal feminism(s)?' Ph.D. course Feminist Theory and Epistemology, org. by The Nordic Research School for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, 30.8.-1.9.
(2004) 'Vocality, corporeality, and gender. Towards a singer- and listener-centered analysis of vocal music.' 14th Nordic Musicological Congress, Sibelius-Academy, Helsinki, 11-14.8.
(2011) 'The Voice as Transversal Rhythmics: Rethinking Vocalities in Contemporary Arts and Culture,' Rhythm and Event, organised by the London Graduate School, King's Anatomy Theatre and Museum, 29 October. Invited talk.
(2011) 'Bodies in Movement and Transversal Relationscapes: Rethinking Music as Performance' International Symposium on Audiovisual Performance and Embodiment, University of Turku, Finland, 11-12 May. Invited talk.
(2011) 'Vocalities as Environmental Rhythmics on a Nature?Culture Continuum: Voice in a New Materialist Perspective' New Materialism: Naturecultures conference, Utrecht University, 7 April. Invited plenary talk.
(2011) 'An Aesthetic and Affective Turn? Propositions for a Cultural Study of Music beyond the Paradigm of Meaning.' Music Colloquium, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 6 April. Invited talk.
(2011) 'An Affective and Aesthetic Turn: Towards a Cultural Study of Music beyond the Paradigm of Meaning?' University of Cambridge, Music Colloquium, 23 February. Invited talk.
(2010) 'Music and Embodiment: From New Musicology to Radical Musicology?' ZKM Zentrum für Kunst and Medientechnologie (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, 6 December. Invited talk.
(2010) 'Voice as a Rhythmic Object' panel Artistic Rhythms I, Continue, Connect, Create: 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Amsterdam, 12-14 July 2010.
(2010) 'What is New Materialism?', New Materialisms and Digital Culture, Anglia Ruskin University, 21 June, available on Machinology blogspot.
(2009) 'Durational Bodies, Sonic Sex: Sounding Out an Operatic Feminism' 7th European Feminist Research Conference, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, June 4-6
(2009) 'Towards an Ethico-Aesthetics of Voice: Reconfiguring Vocality as Medium' ALSS Research Seminars, Anglia Ruskin University, December 2
(2008) 'The Primacy of Movement: Variation, Intermediality, and Biopolitics in Tero Saarinen's Dance Piece Hunt ' One or Several Deleuzes? The First International Deleuze Studies Conference, Cardiff University, Wales (UK), 11-13.8. With Jussi Parikka.
(2007) 'Towards Intensive Audiovisual Encounters: Assemblages of Opera and Cinema.' Research Seminar, Dept. of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK), December 12th.
(2006) 'Re-materializing Music: Singing Bodies and Feminist Methodology' (plenary talk). The international seminar Material Readings: Working with Feminist Methodologies, Dept. of Women's Studies, University of Turku, Finland, October 20th.
(2006) 'Transformative audiovisual encounters: Opera, Cinema, Technology.' Close Encounters, org. by SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts), University of Amsterdam, 13-16.6.
(2006) 'Halun lauluja: ruumis, affektit, ooppera.' ('Songs of desire: bodies, affectivity, opera.') Affektit, soinnit ja kulttuuriteoria -seminaari / the seminar Effects, sounds and cultural theory, org. by the Department of Media Studies and Eetos ry., University of Turku, Finland, May 23th.
(2005) 'Laulajat, koosteet, skitsogenesis. Feministinen musiikintutkimus ja Luciana Parisin sukupuolieron mikropolitiikka.' ('Singers, assemblages, schizogenesis: Feminist musicology and Luciana Parisi's micropolitics of sexual difference'). II National Conference in Cultural Studies, University of Tampere, Finland, 9.-10.12.
(2005) 'Neromyytin kritiikistä tekijöiden moneuteen - musiikin tekijä-tutkimuksen muuttuvat kentät' ('From the Critique of Genius to a Multiplicity of Makers - Shifting Views of Authorship in Music Scholarship'). Seminar on the concept of the Author, org. by Eetos ry., Turku, 25.10.
(2005) 'Re-conceptualising the Author in Music: Musicology and Changing Theories of Authorship.' The international conference Dimensions of Authorship, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 1.-3.9.
(2005) 'A thousand mobile bodily voices: Interbreeding Deleuze, feminism, and opera.' The seminar Deleuze and Music, org. by Prof. Rosi Braidotti & Prof. Anneke Smelik. Dept. of Women's Studies, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 24th.
(2005) 'Corporeal forces, auditory flows: Re-conceptualizing 'classical' singing,' Sonic Interventions: Pushing the Boundaries of Cultural Analysis, org. by the University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, 29.-31.3.
(2004) 'On the Surfaces of Music: Reflections on Singing, Performance, and Corporeality.' Research seminar with film music scholar Anahid Kassabian (Fordham University, USA), Dept. of Musicology, University of Turku, Finland, November 23th.
(2004) 'Music, visual arts, and practices of materiality: Interdisciplinary dynamics of feminist fieldwork.' The conference Interdisciplinary landscapes: Post-feminist practices in the arts, University College Northampton, UK, 16-18.9. With Katve-Kaisa Kontturi.
(2004) 'Singing corporeal feminism(s)?' Ph.D. course Feminist Theory and Epistemology, org. by The Nordic Research School for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, 30.8.-1.9.
(2004) 'Vocality, corporeality, and gender. Towards a singer- and listener-centered analysis of vocal music.' 14th Nordic Musicological Congress, Sibelius-Academy, Helsinki, 11-14.8.
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