{"id":21511,"date":"2021-04-16T10:56:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T12:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/napa.gl\/arctic-perspectives-and-nordic-tones-for-arctic-sounds-in-sisimiut\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T15:37:22","slug":"arctic-perspectives-and-nordic-tones-for-arctic-sounds-in-sisimiut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napa.gl\/en\/arctic-perspectives-and-nordic-tones-for-arctic-sounds-in-sisimiut\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic perspectives and Nordic tones at Arctic Sounds in Sisimiut"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A travelogue from when NAPA participated with workshops, networks and Nordic notes at Greenland’s largest music festival Arctic Sounds in Sisimiut.<\/b><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Arctic Sounds 2021 took place over two weekends in April. Greenlandic and Arctic artists gathered in Sisimiut to celebrate music, interaction and the artistic relations. All concerts were completely sold out – the gratitude of being able to enjoy the concerts and the culture was evident. Within the audience and with the artists. The program included \u00ceVA, Da Bartali Crew, FINNi, Andachan, Ivaana and Zika.<\/p>\n

The festival consisted of small intimate concerts in the church, large concerts in the culture house Taseralik and in Katersortarfik (public culture house) and concerts especially for children and young people at Hotel Sisimiut. In addition, there were also network meetings, masterclasses and workshops. Arctic Sounds calls its workshops \u2018Nordic playgrounds\u2019 to emphasise exchange, equality and co-creation.<\/p>\n

NAPA took part in the festival and arranged a series of activities in collaboration with Arctic Sounds. The purpose was to stimulate Nordic co-operation, across languages \u200b\u200band cultures in the Arctic.<\/p>\n

Do It Together<\/strong>
\nTogether with Jacob Froberg, festival director for Arctic Sounds, NAPA arranged a webinar on publishing your own music for musicians and music entrepreneurs. Three Nordic guests took part via Zoom and gave presentations and afterwards the participants asked questions. The event took place at Serravik, the music school in Sisimiut, and the event was also streamed to musicians in Greenland. In a Nordic spirit, the theme went from being Do It Yourself (DIY) to focusing on Do It Together (DIT) and the discussion revolved around the Greenlandic music life of the future – locally and in relation to getting the music out into the world.
\nOur guests who inspired and debated with the participants were:<\/p>\n

Kristoffer Rom from the record company Tambourhinoceros and Danish Independent Record Companies (DUP)
\nMusician Nana Jacobi from HUN SOLO, who also performed with an online concert at Arctic Sounds
\nKristian Blak from the Faroese record company TUTL.<\/p>\n

Musical sparks<\/strong>
\nNAPA also organized a \u201cNordic Playground\u201d with the theme of sound production. The musician and producer Jesper Skovgaard alias Noosf\u00e6re, who performed at Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival 2019, guided and inspired the musical innovations via video connection. During his presentation, we asked questions and afterwards we continued with sounds, knobs and effects.<\/p>\n

The fact that Arctic Sounds was housed by Serravik, Sisimiut Music School, also affected the activities that took place during the festival. We also conducted a Nordic Playground for children and young people aged 10-15 on podcasts. The goal was to give children and young people tools to create and to express themselves about being young in Greenland. During the afternoon we talked about listening with big ears, about horror stories, about audiobooks and we made our own podcast recordings, which we edited on the computer. Maybe we plantet the seeds for the podcast voices of the future?<\/p>\n

Favourite words and native language<\/strong>
\nDuring the festival days, NAPA also conducted six interviews with residents of the West Greenlandic city. It became the fourth episode of NAPA’s podcast, (N)ORD about Nordic languages \u200b\u200band words. The episode is called “What is your favorite word in Greenlandic?” and it’s in Danish and a little Greenlandic.
\nThe participants are young people from Serravik, the Music School in Sisimiut – Nanna, Iluuna and Apia – as well as some of the people behind the festival: Laura Lennert Jensen, Kimmernaq K Heilmann and Salik Parbst Frederiksen.<\/p>\n

Collection and exchange<\/strong>
\nWhen NAPA travels, it is to promote the Arctic perspective. In Greenland, you are subject to the weather and often have to improvise and change plans. We also experienced this during the festival, where a storm delayed and prevented traffic to and from Sisimiut. Then it’s about being creative, but fortunately we are both used to and good at it in Greenland.
\nArctic Sounds is a hub and an obvious window for collaboration. And as festival director Jacob Froberg said, NAPA is not just a sponsor, but an important partner. A term we are very pleased with at NAPA, because Arctic Sounds – like NAPA – seeks to facilitate Nordic co-operation with Arctic anchorage. Often tied up on \u2018sounds\u2019, but not only.<\/p>\n

Arctic Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n

Arctic Sounds on Youtube<\/a>, where you can see some of this year’s concerts<\/p>\n

Photos: Nuka Kristiansen, Maria Camilla Kristiansen and NAPA<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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