like a rush of fresh air from the North, we managed with the collaboration of the Transmediale to bring Gronimo Inutiq, aka Madeskimo here to Berlin from a short visit.

madeskimo (Geronimo Inutiq) – http://madeskimo.net

Madeskimo is the alter-ego of Geronimo Inutiq. Using electronic music equipment, he presents sounds and music referencing dub, electronica, urban music, and electroacoustics, all with the cultural filter of having originated in the changing face of the Canadian arctic. The midnight sun; the infinite vistas of rolling hills, sky, and water of the arctic; the long cold and dark winters punctuated by the surreal dancing of northern lights and the vastness and lushness of the milky way; the Inuit legends and myths of yore; the sounds of nature, traditional songs, throat singing, and drumming – are all filtered through the entity that is madeskimo. Also someone quite metropolitain, of Aboriginal and French Canadian ancestry, madeskimo represents the cultural dynamics of a 21st century Canadian true and through and stands to bring a challenging and refreshing postmodern aboriginal and Canadian dynamic take on electronic music to the world.

• Geronimo Inutiq will speak at the Marshall McLuhann Lecture tonight (weds, Jan 28th, 19h) at the Canadian Embassy : http://www.transmediale.de/en/transmediale09-marshall-mcluhan-lecture

• He’ll also join in the talk during the Transmediale lecture The Making and The Thinking Thursday Jan. 29th at 14h at the HKW: http://www.transmediale.de/en/making-and-thinking
  

• madeskimo will join the I.C.A.S.-DJ-Team, during the CTM Creative Independents Network Market at KKB, Saturday Jan 31st, 14h-19h http://www.clubtransmediale.de/festival-09/theme-structures/market.html

• madeskimo will flood the final hours of the Transmediale with sounds from the great North. In the Cafe Global, HKW, 18h-22h, Sunday, February 1st. with friends n|suchentrunk (Vienna) and RYBn / AKA [ART KILL ALASKA] DJs (Paris/Berlin)

• He also has an online and gallery work featured right now on SOUNDMUSEUM.FM in collaboration with Canadian artist Kyd Campbell and presented physically in the STRUCTURES exhibition at the KKB

Thanks to the Canadian Embassy, Transmediale and Club Transmediale and last minute magic for this rare jewel!

Tags: canada, dj, Inuit, lecture, madeskimo

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