Black Excellence: Joseph Kamaru (KMRU)
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Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, Research Fellow, is a sound artist and experimental ambient musician, raised in Nairobi, Kenya, and currently based in Berlin where he is a student at Universität der Künste Berlin for sound Studies and Sonic Arts Master’s Program. His works deal with the discourse of field recording, improvisation, noise, machine learning, and radio art. He has earned international acclaim from his in far-flung locales as well as his ‘ambient’ recordings, including his album Peel released on Editions Mego, sweeping 2020 end year lists from Pitchfork, RA, DJ Mag, Bandcamp to Boomkat, and many more. KMRU has presented his works in NyegeNyege Festival in Jinja, GAMMA in St. Petersburg, Mutek Montreal, CTM Festival in Berlin, and unsound, to name the most notable.