Nunatta Atuagaateqarfia (Central Library of Greenland) and Groenlandica (National Library of Greenland) collaborate with one of the most talented Greenlandic musicians in creating a new musical work for Arctic Imagination. 

Varna Marianne Nielsen Apaloo is originally from East Greenland and is descended from a family of acclaimed Drum Dancers that is traced back to the legendary Shaman and Drum Dancer, Maratse.

The musical work consists of three pieces with a total duration of approximately 30 minutes. The composer was given complete artistic freedom to create a work of real sounds from the Greenlandic nature relating to climate change: calving icebergs, ice floes, cascading water, sledge dogs as well as hunting, fishing and whaling culture. 

The fieldrecordings are processed into an electronic soundscape and paired with Drum Singing which is a traditional Greenlandic expression, thus mixing the past, present and future of changing climate within the music. 

The musical work was presented Wednesday Oct. 18th 2017 at Greenland Institute of Natural Resources as part of Nuuk Nordisk Kulturfestival.