Toivo Burlin Senior lecturer, associate professor
Contact
Name and title: Toivo BurlinSenior lecturer, associate professor
Mail: toivo.burlin@music.su.se
Phone: +468161915
Visiting address Room V313Frescativägen 22B-26
Postal address Institutionen för kultur och estetik106 91 Stockholm
About me
Assistant Professor in Musicology.
Born in 1972. Education: Umeå, Uppsala and Gothenburg University 1993-2001, EMS, Stockholm, Ljungskile Folkhögskola, Sveriges Radio (Göteborg, Umeå), master of arts 2002, postgraduate studies in musicology at the University of Gothenburg 2004-2008, Ph D., musicology, University of Gothenburg 2008: The Imaginary Room: Recording Practices and Production of Art Music Phonograms in Sweden 1925-1983 (diss.). Supplementary education at Dalarna University and Stockholm University.
Pedagogical experience
I have fourteen years of pedagogical experience full-time teaching in audio and Music production and Musicology, at several universities, including Dalarna university, University of Skövde and Stockholm university in Sweden, with longer guest lectures at, for example, Åbo akademi University in Turku, Finland, University of Oslo, Norway, and Universität Siegen, Germany.
Previous and current education areas includes sound and music production, theory of science and scientific writing, 20th century Classical Music (including electro-acoustic music), Popular music (in all forms, including jazz and game music), Swedish Folk music and Ethnomusicology, and music media technologies.
Administrative assignments
University of Gothenburg: Member of the Institution Board Inst. Culture, aesthetics and media, 2007-2008. Dalarna University 2011–2014: Vice Chair / Chair of the Committee on Technology and Natural Sciences (ONTN), Program Manager Audiovisual Studies, 2013. Course responsibility for a large number of courses, including project- and sound and music production-oriented courses and distance education. University of Skövde: strategic development, 2014. Stockholm University: course responsible for several courses. Expert and opponent, several different assignments.
Research areas: Sound and music production, music media technologies and mediatization, music and spatiality, 20th century Art music, Folk music and Popular music - with emphasis on production aspects and Swedish conditions.
Projects
Saivo's song: music, sounds and space in performances of the nature being represented by Vitra. (ongoing music technology project with sound studies and production perspective)
Music and spatiality in the amateur and semi-professional music production of the 21st century.