Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä (born 1960 in Ylivieska, North Ostrobothnia) is a Finnish sound, music, and cultural scholar and writer.
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.
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.
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.