Joseph Kamaru

Berlin-based sound artist KMRU (Joseph Kamaru – Nairobi, Kenya) works with field recordings, ambient sound, and experimental techniques to explore listening cultures beyond dominant perceptual norms. He produces compositions, installations, and performances internationally and has released multiple albums, including with his own label, OFNOT.

An imageless film, sounds from a repatriated colonial archive are interrogated to construct an emancipatory relistening to sounds collected through colonial violence.

Joseph Kamaru
Belgium, Germany 2025 50' Listening to the Archive leff 2026
Shot from movie Temporary Stored by Joseph Kamaru