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Film, Video Conversation with PIQSIQ: Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik & Kayley Inuksuk Mackay

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Title

  • Conversation with PIQSIQ: Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik & Kayley Inuksuk Mackay

Summary

  • PIQSIQ is composed of sisters Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik and Kayley Inuksuk Mackay. These talented performers come together to create a unique Inuit style throat singing duo, performing ancient traditional songs along with new compositions. The two grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, with roots in Nunavut. After years of hard work on their music, they have developed their own form, blending haunting melodies and otherworldly sounds. As PIQSIQ, they perform their songs with live improvisational looping, creating a dynamic audience experience that changes with every show. The sisters perform both nationally and internationally, and also incorporate their music's ethereal feel into recorded albums. A "piqsiq" is a storm where the winds blow in a specific way, making it look like the snow is falling back up towards the sky. Being of blended backgrounds, Kayley and Tiffany have had to navigate strange cultural waters and have learned to embrace that journey. They see throat singing as not only a musical expression, but a political act of cultural revitalization.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2021-02-01.

Notes

  • -  Group name: Homegrown from Home. 31
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Stephen Winick, Kayley Inuksuk Mackay, Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik.
  • -  Recorded on 2021-02-01.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697401

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  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with PIQSIQ: Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik & Kayley Inuksuk Mackay. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-01, 2021. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697401/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2021) Conversation with PIQSIQ: Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik & Kayley Inuksuk Mackay. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-01. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697401/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with PIQSIQ: Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik & Kayley Inuksuk Mackay. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-01, 2021. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697401/>.