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"Russell glacier, at the edge of Greenland’s vast ice sheet, sounds as if it’s
crying: moans emanate from deep within the slowly but inexorably melting ice.
Andy Ferguson, one half of dance duo Bicep, walks around in its towering shadow
recording these eerie sounds. “Everyone comes back changed,” he says of
Greenland. “Seeing first-hand climate change happening like this.”
It’s April 2023 and, in the wake of Bicep’s second album
Isles cementing them
as one of the leading electronic acts globally, Ferguson has travelled to
Greenland as part of a project to collaborate with Indigenous musicians and
bring the momentous struggle of this region – and even the planet – into focus.
The project will take two years to come to fruition but next month sees the
release of Bicep’s first soundtrack and accompanying film
Takkuuk, pronounced
tuck-kook. It’s an Inuktitut word that came from throat singing duo Silla, one
of the Indigenous collaborators: “It translates to literally ‘look’ but has the
connotation that you’re urging someone to look at something closely,” says
Silla’s Charlotte Qamaniq. “The Arctic climate is changing rapidly so in the
context of the project it’s: ‘look, the adverse effects of climate change are
obvious.’ But it’s also: ‘hey, look how cool Inuit culture is!’”"
Via
Positive.News
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
