HelloMachine is a music and multimedia label specializing in the work of Mendi + Keith Obadike. The pieces listed below can be ordered by contacting us at Hellomachine@blacknetart.com. If you are interested in broadcasting, exhibiting or public presentation of these works please contact Evelyn McGhee at Office@blacknetart.com. All CDRs are $10 plus shipping and all text PDFs are available for free downloading.

Uli is a classical painting style and design system from the Igbo people of Nigeria. Traditionally, as practiced by Mgbadunwa Okanumee, uli has been used to decorate the body or architecture. Since the 1960s, however, academic artists such as Uche Okeke, Obiora Udechukwu and Olu Oguibe also have incorporated uli into their contemporary works on canvas and paper. The UliSuite is an attempt to aurally render the lyrical lines (Eke-the sacred python) or stippled dots (ntupo) of uli, while simultaneously articulating a sense of an architectural space that has been treated with uli designs. The sounds/pigments for this project were "favorite everyday sounds" submitted by participants in the E-2A project (a telnet/Internet-based call for sounds).