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Ebe Oke: Species at The Courtyard

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Time 20:00
Date 28/02/19
Price £11

Join the 'experimental artist, electroacoustic composer and performance poet' as they perform their debut album 'Species' with an electroacoustic string ensemble.

After completing and then finally rejecting two full albums, Ebe Oke returned to songs that began in childhood. Ebe's unique early life was shaped by time spent alone in nature with a menagerie of exotic birds. These feathered beings acted as both friends, familiars; and a spiritual respite from the intense violence of a life lived as an openly queer and gender-questioning youth in rural Georgia (US).

These sweet and visionary creative impulses have been integrated into Species, an experimental electroacoustic album exploring the calls of birds and insects. These natural sounds are processed and used as instruments alongside non-linear percussion, haunting strings and Ebe's own treated voice. Each song penetrates themes including gender, healing and the non-human.

The album features Brian Eno alongside artists including Takako Minekewa and Jah Wobble. It was researched and developed during residencies at The Watermill Center, Pioneer Works, Museums Quartier (Austria) and then completed in Reykjavik at Greenhouse Studios.

The evening will begin with a contemporary dance piece performed by dancer Justyna Janiszewska, flautist Pasha Mansurov and Charlie Draper on the ondes martenot. The score, choreography & costumes have all been created by Oke for the occasion.

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