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Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä (born 1960 in Ylivieska, North Ostrobothnia) is a Finnish sound, music, and cultural scholar and writer. She is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Eastern Finland. As sensory and soundscape ethnographer, Järviluoma has developed the mobile method of sensobiographic walking. Her research and art span the fields of sensory remembering, qualitative methodology (especially regarding gender), environmental cultural studies, sound art and fiction writing. Helmi Järviluoma was married to Finnish writer Matti Mäkelä (1951–2019).

Early life and career

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Helmi Inkeri Järviluoma was born in 1960 and went to high school in Ylivieska. She earned her bachelor's (1982) and master's degrees (1986) from the University of Tampere in folk tradition, especially folk music, with strong emphasis on sociology. She continued to study ethnomusicology and completed her PhD in Tampere in 1997. Järviluoma had already joined the workforce of the Department of Folk Tradition (later called Department of Music Anthropology) in 1986, and by 1992 she was a Research Fellow. In between, 1991–1992, she also worked as the first director of the popular music -oriented Institute of Rhythm Music in Seinäjoki. Between 1998 and 2005 she was attached to University of Turku as a Senior Assistant and Lecturer of ethnomusicology, working for Academy of Finland as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1998–2001) and Academy Research Fellow (2004–2006), finished after one year in Autumn 2005, when receiving professorship in cultural studies in University of Joensuu (later: University of Eastern Finland). In 2016, she received an Advanced Grant of approximately 1,9 million euros from the European Research Council ERC, to study Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships, 1950–2020 SENSOTRA[1] in the three European cities of Ljubljana, Turku and Brighton.

From music and soundscape research towards the study of sensory transformations

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Järviluoma is probably best known for her work in the field of soundscape studies. Decades of research[2][3][4][5][6] on this topic culminated in the publication of Acoustic Environments in Change (2009) together with Simon Fraser University which sums up her four consecutive interdisciplinary, international soundscape research projects studying the changing European soundscapes. Currently, her research focuses on sensobiographies, as well as the themes of mobilities, aging, remembering, technologies and dis-placement. Among her 180 publications, Gender and Qualitative Methods (2003/2010) continues to draw attention. She has written and directed altogether six radio features for Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE; three alone and two in co-operation with Steven Feld, and one with Noora Vikman.

Distinctions and awards

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  • The Finnish Union of University Professors[7] selected Helmi Järviluoma as professor of the year 2019[8] in Finland
  • Järviluoma was selected as a member[9] of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2018.
  • In 2013 she received the Equality and Diversity Award of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF 2013)
  • In the year 2006, the award Aesthetic Act of the Year, was rewarded by The Finnish Society for Aesthetics[10] to the project One Hundred Finnish Soundscapes, which was directed to Helmi Järviluoma.

Selected works

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Järviluoma's publications include among others the results of a large interdisciplinary follow-up project, Acoustic Environments in Change (2009), and Gender and Qualitative Methods (Sage 2003/2010). She has, as well, between 2005 and 2017 written and directed several radio features, combining art and research, for the Finnish Broadcasting Company's Radio Atelier, and written a collection of fiction (short stories) Ja katsella hain hampaita [And to watch sharks’ teeth] in 2016. As a fiddler, she has played in bands such as Balkan music orcherstra Slobo Horo (1986–1989), women's rock band Enkelimankeli (1992–1998), and Säilyn pelimannit (2016--).

  • Helmi Järviluoma: Aspects of “Dis-placement” and Ageing – a Case Study in Musical Remembering.[11]
  • Helmi Järviluoma: The Art and Science of Sensory Memory Walking. Marcel Cobussen & Vincent Meelberg & Barry Truax (eds.)</ref> The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis 2017, pp. 191–204.</ref>
  • Helmi Järviluoma: Acoustic Environments in Change. Helmi Järviluoma, Heikki Uimonen, Noora Vikman, Meri Kytö & Barry Truax.[12]
  • Helmi Järviluoma: Gender and Qualitative Methods. Written by Helmi Järviluoma, Pirkko Moisala and Anni Vilkko[13]
  • Helmi Järviluoma: Soundscape Studies and Methods. Eds. Helmi Järviluoma and Gregg Wagstaff[14]
  • Helmi Järviluoma: From Manchuria to the tradition village: on construction of place via ‘pelimanni’ music[15]
  • Helmi Järviluoma: Local Constructions of Gender in a Finnish Pelimanni Musicians Group[16]
  • Helmi Järviluoma: Musiikki, identiteetti ja ruohonjuuritaso. Amatöörimuusikkoryhmän kategoria-työskentelyn analyysi. [Music and identity at grassroots level. Analysing on category-work of an amateur music group.][17]
  • Helmi Järviluoma: Yearbook of Soundscape Studies, Vol. 1 “Northern Soundscapes”, eds. R. Murray Schafer and Helmi Järviluoma[18]
  • Helmi Järviluoma: Soundscapes: Essays on Vroom and Moo. Ed. Helmi Järviluoma[19]
  • Pekka Suutari & Helmi Järviluoma: Finlandization and the Restriction of Karelian Voices at the Height of the Cold War[20]
  • Helmi Järviluoma & Noora Vikman: On Soundscape Methods and Audiovisual Sensibility. In Gorbman Claudia, John Richardson & Carol Vernallis (Eds)[21]
  • Helmi Järviluoma & Taru Leppänen : Becoming Audible! Asylum seekers, participatory action research and cultural encounters. Situating popular musics[22]
  • Helmi Järviluoma & Airi Mäki-Kulmala: Folk Music and Political Song Movements in Finland – Remarks on "Symbolic Home-coming"[23]

News

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  • Professor Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä receives Professor of Year Award[24]
  • In English: A jack pot! Almost 1.9 million euro grant for a researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.[25] Karjalainen, 15 April 2016
  • In English: ERC funds unprecedented amount of research in Finland,[26] in The Finnish Union of University researchers and teachers, 1 July 2016
  • In English: Does a teenager born directly to the digital world sense the environment differently from the one that was born before it? The issue is covered by a two million euro grant[27] in Helsingin Sanomat 2 December 2016
  • In English: Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä: The soundscape is a tourist attraction for Finland[28] 29 January 2017.
  • In English: Generations Live inside Their Own Bubbles – Does culture move from one generation to another?[29] in Karjalainen news paper 27 September 2018.

References

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  1. ^ "Sensotra | UEF".
  2. ^ Helmi Järviluoma, Acoustic Environments in Change. Helmi Järviluoma, Heikki Uimonen, Noora Vikman, Meri Kytö & Barry Truax. Translation editor Bruce Johnson. Book + four CDs. University of Joensuu, Faculty of Humanities Publications & Tampere University of Applied Sciences Publications, in co-operation with Simon Fraser University. 2009, 430 pages.
  3. ^ Helmi Järviluoma, From Manchuria to the tradition village: on construction of place via ‘pelimanni’ music. Popular Music (2000) Volume 19/1. Cambridge University Press, pp.101–124.
  4. ^ Helmi Järviluoma, Musiikki, identiteetti ja ruohonjuuritaso. Amatöörimuusikkoryhmän kategoria-työskentelyn analyysi. [Music and identity at grassroots level. Analysing on category-work of an amateur music group.] Tampere: Acta Universitatis Tamperensis A 555, 1997. 282 pp.
  5. ^ Helmi Järviluoma & Noora Vikman: On Soundscape Methods and Audiovisual Sensibility. In Gorbman Claudia, John Richardson & Carol Vernallis (Eds) Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2013, pp. 645—658 [Co-written with 50 % contributions by both authors.]
  6. ^ Helmi Järviluoma & Taru Leppänen : Becoming Audible! Asylum seekers, participatory action research and cultural encounters. Situating popular musics: IASPM 16th International Conference. Melbourne: IASPM 2012, 296–306. (http://www.iaspm.net/proceedings/index.php/iaspm2011/iaspm2011/paper/view/58)
  7. ^ "In English".
  8. ^ "Professor Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä receives Professor of Year Award – News | UEF".
  9. ^ "Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian uudet jäsenet". 27 April 2018.
  10. ^ "Finnish Society for Aesthetics".
  11. ^ In Grenier, Line & Valois-Nadeau, Fanny (Eds) A Senior Moment: Cultural Mediations of Memory and Ageing. Transcript publications. Aging Studies Vol. VII.Forthcoming 2018.
  12. ^ Translation editor Bruce Johnson. Book + four CDs. University of Joensuu, Faculty of Humanities Publications & Tampere University of Applied Sciences Publications, in co-operation with Simon Fraser University. 2009, 430 pages.
  13. ^ London: Sage Publications 2003, 160 pp.[Also Sage Research Methods Online 2010 http://www.srmo.sagepub.com/view/gender-and-qualitative-methods/n1.xml?row=5&rskey=V7gLdS ]
  14. ^ Helsinki: The Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology Publ. 9 & University of Turku, Dept. of Art, Literature & Music Series A51, 2002. 204 pp.
  15. ^ Popular Music (2000) Volume 19/1. Cambridge University Press, pp.101–124.
  16. ^ In Music and Gender, eds. Pirkko Moisala & Beverley Diamond. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 2000, pp. 51–79.
  17. ^ Tampere: Acta Universitatis Tamperensis A 555, 1997. 282 pp.
  18. ^ Tampere: Univ. of Tampere Dept. of Folk Tradition Publ. 27, 1998. 167 pp.
  19. ^ Tampere: Department of Folk Tradition, Publications 19; Institute of Rhythm Music, Publications A2, 1994. 140 pp.
  20. ^ In A. Kirkegaard & H. Järviluoma & J. Knudsen & J. Otterbeck (eds.) Researching Music Censorship. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2017 [Co-written with 50 % contributions by both authors.], pp. 104—121.
  21. ^ Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2013, pp. 645—658 [Co-written with 50 % contributions by both authors.]
  22. ^ : IASPM 16th International Conference. Melbourne: IASPM 2012, 296–306. (http://www.iaspm.net/proceedings/index.php/iaspm2011/iaspm2011/paper/view/58)
  23. ^ In Music, History, Democracy, vol. 3, ed. par Antoine Hennion. Paris: Editions de la Maisons des Sciences de l'Homme & Ministére de la Culture 1992, pp. 691–705. [Co-written with 50 % contributions by both authors.]
  24. ^ "Professor Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä receives Professor of Year Award – News | UEF".
  25. ^ https://www.karjalainen.fi/uutiset/uutis-alueet/kotimaa/item/102888 Itä-Suomen yliopiston tutkijalle jättipotti – lähes 1.9 miljoonan euron apuraha
  26. ^ https://tieteentekijoidenliitto.fi/media/uutisia/euroopan_tutkimusneuvosto_myontanyt_suomeen_ennatysmaaran_tutkimusrahaa.1802.news Euroopan tutkimusneuvosto myöntänyt Suomeen ennätysmäärän tutkimusrahaa
  27. ^ https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000004889971.html Aistiiko älylaite kädessä syntynyt teini ympäristön eri tavalla kuin ennen digiaikaa varttunut? Asiaa selvitetään kahden miljoonan euron apurahalla
  28. ^ https://kouvolansanomat.fi/uutiset/lahella/7f1785ae-c9a3-4739-86cd-a328b16aafb3 Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä: Äänimaisema on Suomelle matkailuvaltti
  29. ^ https://www.karjalainen.fi/uutiset/uutis-alueet/maakunta/item/195914 Sukupolvet elävät omissa kuplissaan – vieläkö kulttuuri siirtyy sukupolvesta seuraavaan?
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