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Ebe Oke

@ebeoke

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Composer, Painter, Multimedia Artist

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Tape is an unusually precise metaphor for memory.

Working diligently on a new piano-based record of songs, bringing new work together with material from different chapters of my life, from my earliest recordings onwards, revisited and recomposed.

Where SPECIES explored the inner landscape beyond selfhood, this record turns outward to the world around us and the figures within it. taken in London, United Kingdom by @ebeoke

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Three years ago, a one-of-a-kind collaborative live record was born in the form of a limited edition vinyl. To this day, it remains unlike anything I've ever experienced. Recently, I was told by a friend that copies are being sold for £500 on Discogs! It was a conscious choice to give the release a distinct value by making it solely a physical object, rather than just another digital release lost in the vast void of the internet. This record was culled from hours of music made during a week-long studio session in Copenhagen where we shared our creative process with the public through two talks. We arranged our equipment in triangle formation, fusing ideas together in a collaborative sphere. I feel fortunate to have had the chance to join forces with two of my most cherished creative synthesists and to have gained a wealth of knowledge from this experience. Shortly after recording this I embarked on a journey to Iceland to create my solo record: SPECIES. Attached are excerpts of two of my favourite tracks. Link in bio for full artist talk. by @ebeoke

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4 years ago

Working on a new collaborative release with cellist David Barbenel, whose album Light to Light I produced. It brings together works we have made over the years, with strings, electronics and spoken word at its core.

Photo by @davidbarbenel by @ebeoke

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6 months ago

Sagano Bamboo Forest in Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan

Photo by @norikookaku taken in Sagano Bamboo Forest, Arashiyama by @ebeoke

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7 months ago

Rehearsing Six Exercises in Unknowing with the Naples Philharmonic in Naples, Florida, ahead of its performance alongside Limón Dance Company was an honour. It was incredibly rewarding to hear the piece take shape with the orchestra and to refine it in rehearsal with conductor Manuel López-Gómez. Writing for orchestra has lived in my imagination since childhood. Thank you to Jan Willem de With for helping prepare the score. taken in Artis—Naples by @ebeoke

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7 months ago

Wordless Voices, Quiet Resonance, curated by Chie Sumiyoshi, brought together works by myself, painter Zhang Ting, and conceptual artist Hirofumi Isoya at AL Gallery in Tokyo as part of the Yebisu Festival for Innovative Art and Alternative Visions.

For the exhibition, I presented RAEON, a sound installation. taken in Tokyo, Japan by @ebeoke

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Excerpt from Jamelgos at The Joyce Theater, October 2025. In this clip, the choreography is performed to the electronic version of my score Six Exercises in Unknowing. I composed the work in two forms, an electronic recording and an orchestral score that integrates the electronics. I’m in rehearsals today with The Naples Philharmonic ahead of the orchestral premiere tomorrow (3 March) with Limón Dance Company in Naples, Florida.

Music: Ebe Oke  Choreography: Diego Vega Solorza  Choreographer’s Assistant: Carla Segovia @carla_segovia Costume Design: Julio César Delgado @juliocesardelgado Lighting Design: Corey Whittmore Video: Nel Shelby @nelshelbyfilms

Musicians on electronic recording Ondes Martenot: Charlie Draper @charlietheremin  Cello: David Barbenel @davidbarbenel Additional synths: Robert Logan @cognessence

Orchestration: Jan Willem De With @janwillemdewith

Live performance The Naples Philharmonic Limón Dance Company @limondance Venue: Artis Naples @artisnaples by @ebeoke

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8 months ago

Naples, Florida soon

Photo by @davidbarbenel by @ebeoke

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8 months ago

Open Continuum brings together prints made from my oil paintings, drawings, collages, and etchings, alongside a sound installation composed for the exhibition. The works reflect an ongoing dialogue between my visual and compositional practices, where ideas evolve in parallel through shared temporal processes.

I work through accumulation, repetition, erosion, and slow transformation. I approach image making with attention to rhythm, density, harmony, and silence, and I approach composition with sensitivity to colour, texture, space, and material presence. Methods developed in one medium reappear in another, allowing the work to move between image and sound without hierarchy.

Much of my work is shaped by an interest in non human perspectives, including animal, environmental, artificial, and speculative modes of perception. Working from positions that sit outside the human centre loosens inherited ways of making, allowing systems, materials, and time to take a more active role.

Opening 31 January, 6pm to 7pm at Monade Art Phil, Kyoto.

Open Continuum
Monade Art Phil @monadecontemporary
Room 2, B1F Yasaka Bldg, 10-2 Tsukimi cho, Higashiyama ku, Kyoto 605 0829
Opening 31 January, 6pm to 7pm

Access
12 minute walk from Hankyu Kyoto Kawaramachi Station
10 minute walk from Keihan Gion Shijo Station
2 minute walk from Kyoto City Bus Higashiyama Yasui

Works shown in video:
Ausform (graphite on paper) and
Untitled (etching), 2025
Music: Slow System, Ebe Oke (unreleased)

Open Continuum は、油彩作品をもとに制作した版画、ドローイング、コラージュ、エッチングに加え、本展のために作曲したサウンドインスタレーションによって構成されます。これらの作品は、私の視覚表現と作曲の実践のあいだで続く対話を映し出し、共有された時間的プロセスのなかで、アイデアが並行して展開していく様子を示しています。

私は、蓄積、反復、侵食、そしてゆるやかな変容を通して制作します。イメージ制作ではリズム、密度、調和、沈黙に注意を向け、作曲では色彩、質感、空間、素材としての存在感に敏感に向き合います。ある媒体で培われた方法が別の媒体に立ち現れ、イメージとサウンドが優劣のない関係のまま往復しながら作品が形づくられていきます。

私の制作の多くは、人間中心ではない視点への関心に形づくられています。それは動物や環境、人工的なもの、そして仮説的な知覚のあり方などを含みます。人間の中心から外れた位置から制作することで、これまで受け継がれてきた作り方がほぐれ、システムや素材、時間そのものが、より能動的な役割を担うようになります。

2025年1月31日 18時から19時
Monade Art Phil（京都）にてオープニング taken in 京都 Kyoto, Japan by @ebeoke

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9 months ago

Looking forward to being part of Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2026, in an exhibition curated by Chie Sumiyoshi at AL Gallery in Tokyo, where I’ll be presenting a sound installation, Raeon.

Polyphonic Voices Bathed in Sunlight ― 日花聲音 ― opens on 5 February, with a live choreographic performance by Imari Suganuma with my live score on 14 February.

Curated by @btraumaris Choreography by @imari_suganuma @al_tokyo

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2026 にて、東京・AL Galleryで千住千代（Chie Sumiyoshi）キュレーションによる展覧会に参加できることを楽しみにしています。私は本展で、サウンド・インスタレーション《Raeon》を発表します。

Polyphonic Voices Bathed in Sunlight ― 日花聲音 ― は2月5日に開幕し、2月14日には菅沼伊万里によるライブ・コレオグラフィーと、私によるライブ・スコアのパフォーマンスが行われます。

Photo: Clare Britton, The Watermill Center, NY taken in Tokyo, Japan by @ebeoke

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10 months ago

A new score I composed for orchestra and electronics, commissioned by the Naples Philharmonic, premiered last night at The Joyce Theater in New York. The composition accompanies Jamelgos, a new creation by Diego Vega Solorza, commissioned by the Limón Dance Company, celebrating its 80th anniversary season.

Performances run October 14–18 at 7:30pm, with matinees on the 18th and 19th at 2pm. Link in bio for more information.

Thank you to Diego Vega Solorza, Dante Puleio and the Limón Dance Company, and David Filner at the Naples Philharmonic for bringing this project to life. I’d also like to thank Robert Logan, David Barbenel, and Charlie Draper, whose performances on additional synths, strings, and ondes Martenot helped shape the sound of this work.

📷 Photo by Kelly Puleio

@diegovegasolorza, @limondance, @artistnaples, @dantepuleio, @cognessence, @davidbarbenel, @charlietheremin, @kellypuleio, @thejoycetheater taken in The Joyce Theater by @ebeoke

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a year ago

This is Sun on Fertile Ground, the final piece from LIGHT TO LIGHT, my first solo record, produced by Ebe Oke, released today on all streaming platforms.
A piece about healing and rebirth in the aftermath of disaster.
Thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way. by @ebeoke

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