Studio Gre

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Endarkened Co-Composition Methodology

Call me Gre.

I am a sound artist, vocalist, performance artist and composer-researcher.

I make works that emerge from sites of opacity - what I call sites of endarkened co-presence. These are places where people, their ideas, memories, and imaginations inhabit an opacity that does not devalue ancestral ways of knowing and being, but rather protects and sanctifies them. As a place for qualitative research, the intimacy of a storytelling epistemology surrounds the site. As a result of validating Black and Indigenous historical, intuitive, and spiritual ways of making meaning, perhaps connection forms in situ. Further troubling the preconceived or assumed positions of hierarchy by de-centring hegemonic narratives, the site of endarkened co-presence offers fertile roots from which endarkened co-composition can sprout.

I am drawn to a variety of materials - both sonic and otherwise - to explore these considerations. While rooted as sound-based work and compositions, my pieces are presented in many forms and thus engage with many materials. I am in constant conversation with the sonic and what it wants from me as an artist. Graphic scores and photoscores invite me to engage with marker, pen, paper and 35mm film to facilitate improvisation with musicians and players who wish to interpret these scores. Sound installations invite me to consider multi-sensory tactility, where I incorporate natural materials like limestone and soil and fabricated material like fiber optics and textiles to create a world specific to the compositions. Compositions for performance, film, chamber and beyond invite me to remain focused on breath, story and narrative in order to make works that draw life from and retreat to the archive.

Cured
Beginning 2026

Cured: Considering new sound methodology for Gynaecological Inquiry is a project

Cured is a research and creative project examining how racialised violence continues to shape gynaecological care. The work starts from a clear premise. Gynaecology developed through the exploitation of Black women, and those foundations still affect pain assessment, consent, credibility, and care for Black, Asian, and Global Majority birthing people today. These harms operate as living structures within contemporary healthcare systems, not as distant history.

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Education

PhD - Music (Composition)
City St. George University
London, UK
(2024)

M.A. Arts and Cultural Management
St. Mary’s University
Minneapolis, MN
(2018)

BSc Sociology
Creighton University
Omaha, NE
(2013)

Commissions
Residencies

Nebraska State Music Association
2025 Commissioned Composer
(2025)

Leighton Artist Studios
Banff Center for Arts and Creativity
(2024)

PerforCraze International Artist Residency
Kumasi, Ghana
(2021)

Inside/Outside Fellow
Union for Contemporary Art
(2019)

Publications

Gre, L. Meireles, M. and Rennie, T. (2024). ‘Endarkened Listening’, in Rennie, T. et al (ed.) Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard, Routledge

Gre, L. (2024). ‘Co-writing our hymn for liberation’, in Burnett, P. and Johnson-Williams, E (ed.) Hymns and Race: Agency, Mobility, Coloniality, Routledge

Gre, L. (2021). ‘Invoke’, in Molitor, C. Hausmusik Collective, Uniformbooks

Selected Exhibitions + Performances

(upcoming) tbd
(group)
Auger + Zest Collective
Bournemouth, UK
2025

Buffet
(group)
Tower House Studios
Southampton, UK
2025

Embodied Cacophanies
(solo)
Lindisfarne Castle
Holy Island of Lindisfarne
2023-2025

Three Gold Threads
(solo)
Royal Shakespeare Company
Stratford-upon-Avon
UK
2023

Black Girl Window
(contributor)
Alexandria Smith
Currier Museum
Manchester, NH, USA
2022

An Infinity of Traces
(group)
Lisson Gallery
London, UK
2021

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Sonic Ecologies

Embodied Ecologies

resting body
2025

From Whence
2021

From Whence is a parallel listening practice rather than documentation or illustration. The photographs operate as sites of pause, holding gesture, surface, and atmosphere without explanation. They refuse captioning and narrative anchoring, allowing ambiguity to remain active rather than resolved.

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Echoes of Care
2025

Echoes of Care is a collaborative multidisciplinary performance exploring the theme of haunting and Black ways of care and exploring the body as a vehicle for epiginetic memory of carelessness and carefulness. Having debuted at the 2025 transmediale festival in Berlin, the performance plays physically with the concept of closeness (of those performing) and proximity (to the audience who remain peripheral) and considers the sound of careFULness and careLESSness and how that sound might echo through our bones, memories, and beyond.

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Echolocations
2025

Echolocations presents live voice, piano and electronics in a performance that responds to ocean life and human impact on marine ecosystems. With my collaborators Drew Crawford, Pablo Galaz and Benjamin Oliver, we shaped sound material through listening practices rooted in sonic ecology. The work unfolds through spatialised sound and attuned listening to foreground how acoustic environments change under pressure from industry and climate.

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Three Gold Threads
2023

Three Gold Threads frames sound as a site of relation rather than evidence. The work invites a mode of attention grounded in patience and regard, where listening becomes an ethical stance. What is heard and what remains untranslatable are held together, affirming the sovereignty of the un/misheard and allowing the work to exist without resolution or explanation.

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Graphic Notation
varied

2D works on paper
Graphic scores are compositions for interpretation and play.

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Embodied Cacophonies
2023-2025

Under the Skin of a Guild
2023

Adapted from a live performance commissioned by Arts & Heritage in April 2020, this film responds to London Guildhall as a charged sonic and architectural site. The work listens into the building’s historical weight, tracing its role in slavery and colonisation, with specific reference to the Zong case tried there in March 1783, when ship owners sought insurance compensation after murdering more than 130 enslaved people during the Middle Passage.

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L. Gre

We Invoke the Black. To Rest.
Tate Britain
2021

Composer: L. Gre
Performers: L. Gre + Enam Gbewonyo

Curator: Peju Oshin

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More Powerful Than the Sun
2020 - ongoing

More Powerful Than the Sun is a collaborative sound and performance work grounded in embodied listening and relational sound-making. The work treats sound as a carrier of memory, affect, and ancestral relation rather than as a tool for explanation. Sonic material remains partially opaque. Listening unfolds through sensation, pacing, and resonance rather than interpretation.

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A Progeny of Perpetual Independence

In honour of Mr. George Floyd, Mr. Philando Castille, and the spirits of the people Minneapolis and St Paul who remain.

We so free.

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Moon Mother

2023

A night bathed by the full moon left me in awe. So I wrote a piece as ritualised reflection.

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fgmntd

first commissioned and performed by Quince Ensemble

explores displacement, environmental collapse, and the slow, forced movement of families away from land once called home.

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spectre

on queer visibilities.

First commissioned and premiered by the SydeBoob duo in January 2024.

with text by Alexei Perry Cox.

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