Marianela Calleja

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Marianela Calleja is a philosopher specializing in the philosophy of music and sound, and the philosophy of logic and language. She conducts research on the theory of the (sonorous) sublime (associated researcher, Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Buenos Aires). She is Professor of Aesthetics at Universidad Nacional del Sur and Professor of Logic and Epistemology at Universidad Salesiana, Bahía Blanca. She teaches a Philosophy of Music & Sound Seminar at the Fundación Ezequiel Martinez Estrada.

 

Riitta Rainio is a musicologist specializing in archaeoacoustics and sound archaeology. She completed her doctorate at the University of Helsinki in 2010 and has since worked as a researcher with funding from the Academy of Finland and several other foundations. From 2023 till 2026, she leads the group project Sacred Sound and Ritual Soundscapes in Historical and Contemporary Fennoscandia: Acoustic Measurements, Ethnographic Research and Foundations for Cultural Echology, funded by the Kone Foundation.

 

Julia Shpinitskaya is a musicologist specializing in sound anthropology and Indigenous sonic cultures, conducting ethnographic, archival, and field research. She received her doctorate from the University of Helsinki in 2016 and has been a postdoctoral researcher at the same university and an associated researcher at IRCAV (Université Sorbonne, Paris 3) since then. In the last five years she has been working with the University of Helsinki Archaeoacoustic Group, focusing on Sámi studies.

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  • Sound Matter and More-than-Human Sound Agency in the Acousphere of Fennoscandian Ritual Sites (2025) author(s): Marianela Calleja, Riitta Rainio, Julia Shpinitskaya published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    Sounds created through reflection played a key role in the belief and ritual traditions of Fennoscandia up until recent times. The Indigenous Sámi considered echoing rocks and mountains to be sacred places where spirits could be met and conversed with. This article examines the role of sound reflections in these historical, little-known traditions using source material gathered from archives and old ethnographic accounts. We analyze the source material using concepts developed by sound studies and the philosophy of sound. We also apply a new materialist approach, which allows echoes to be regarded from a perspective more suitable to the source material: as sound energies transforming reflective material bodies into vibrant and interactive more-than-human beings. Moreover, the new materialist approach enables us to outline a philosophical basis for a materialist understanding of sound reflections and reflective material bodies, as well as the acoustic spaces associated with them. The concept of acousphere is proposed to understand this kind of space of correlation, confluence, and interchange between the human and more-than-human worlds.
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