Connecting sounds

Playlist created by Inunnguaq Petrussen, musician
Multi-screen installation featuring music video clips and songs with subtitles in Kalaallisut and English, organised into three categories (pop and hip-hop / rock and classical / folk)
27 min / 33 min / 49 min
Courtesy the artists and ALPS Swiss Alpine Museum, Bern

The Inuit on the east and west coasts do not speak the same language. But music, with lyrics mostly sung in Kalaallisut, brings together the people on the world’s largest island. Making music is popular in Greenland. Song lyrics are a medium for vocalising Greenland’s issues and a forum for being heard. The playlists in this room represent the best of Greenlandic music including pop, rock, rap, reggae, country and classics, selected by the Greenlanders who contributed to the exhibition and supported by Inunnguaq Petrussen, the lead singer of the band ‘Inuk’.