Researchers

Heikki Uimonen

Leader

University of Eastern Finland

PhD Heikki Uimonen is holding a post of research director at the University of Eastern Finland. He has worked as professor at the University of the Arts (2012–2017) and at the University of Eastern Finland (2020–2021, 2022–2023). Uimonen is an ethnomusicologist and a docent on acoustic communication and soundscape studies at the University of Eastern Finland and University of Tampere and recording and performing musician. He has published and co-published articles, monographs and edited anthologies on music consumption, radio music, compact cassettes, background music and transforming sensory environments. His research interests include sonic construction of place, mediated music, social use of music, transforming sensory environments and how all these intertwine. He is a board member of Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology.

Anne Tarvainen

Senior Researcher

University of Eastern Finland

Anne Tarvainen is an ethnomusicologist (PhD) specializing in the embodied, experiential, and cultural meanings of voice. She is currently a senior research fellow at the University of Eastern Finland, working on the project “SOMECO – Sonic Mediations and Ecocritical Listening,” funded by The Research Council of Finland. Her previous research has focused on embodied listening and singers’ vocal expressions, somaesthetic experiences of d/Deaf, tone-deaf, and vocally disordered singers, as well as the transactions between voice, background music, and sonic environments in service industry workplaces. Tarvainen bridges academic insights with broader societal contexts, notably as a developer and educator of the Voicefulness® method.