Soundings #012: Emeka Ogboh – Lagos soundscapes

Emeka Ogboh’s sound recordings and installations range from personal explorations of places to investigations of public urban spaces in regards to their history and linked memories. For that matter, the artist who is based in Lagos and Berlin (*1977) explores soundscapes of cities and their aural textures of infrastructure, migration and culture, like in his hometown Lagos. Occasionally, he samples acoustic material (songs, political speeches etc.) in his experimental compositions or confronts the acoustic topography of Lagos with the trimmed noises of public transport in Berlin. Ogboh also worked with choirs, for example the Athens based Pleiades Vocal Group or the Afro-Gospel-Choir from Berlin, to investigate situations of crisis and to question national symbols like a hym in migrant societies like Germany.  

Emeka Ogboh: "I see the city as a composer and I am just documenting the city. I try to document these compositions."