ọmọlolú Refilwe Bàbátúndé (ọrB) (shx/they) is a multimedia artist rooted in sound who makes sonic ritual works that explore recovery, becoming, and breaking into affirming possibilities. Her practice is concerned with how Black sound moves through, connects, and shifts space/time. Through looping, harmonization, instrumentation, field recordings, and sampling, they explore the power of repetition, mantra-making, and collective breathing as ways to propel those who listen through the cycles and deepening of our becoming. In their practice, they also explore video, image, archival work, prose, and performance as ways to activate, visualize, and embody the sonic encounters they strive to expose. Shx received the inaugural Mexican Summer Recording Studio Residency in July 2022 and has performed/shown work at Leslie Loham Museum of Art, Northstar Durham, The Free Black Women’s Library, All Souls NYC, The New Museum, SPACES (Cleveland), and many intentional DIY venues. In October 2020 shx released hxr first EP “laiii 222 rest ooo: blx ancestral sonix salves” on Don Giovanni Records, and their forthcoming debut album, “the only way is thr(u)” will be released March 13th 2026.

Welcome to my (site/cite/sight). If you support my work, please get in contact and let’s talk. My email is orbabatunde@gmail.com, and I am developing pages on this site to reflect my pedagogical praxis, ongoIN research, and lecture/knowledge activation offerINs. I hope you reach out!

ọmọlolú Refilwe Bàbátúndé (ọrB) 🖤

*blx is a spatial/temporal device I use that locates folx outside of the confines and dispossession of the production of blackness in a western modern conceptualization of the “term”. “blx” roots those who choose -- and are able -- into the continual, other, before/after/now and through process of our BE(come)IN and beIN...