Gemini pop legend Lionel Richie made it a hit back in the 80s, Osymyso used it brilliantly in his ‘Intro-Inspection’ and looking through the databases, finding all the instances of different songs with Hello in the title and thinking of working with them, I was reminded of John Oswald’s ‘O Hell’.

Those songs listed in my databases are – Hello; Hello Dolly; Hello brother: Hello I love you; If you see her say Hello; Hello Again; Hello Earth; Hello Hurray; Hello Mabel; Hello Hello I’m back again; Please tell him I said hello; Hello Dawn; I wanna say Hello; Hello Memory; Hello Old Friend; Goodbye Lover, Hello Friend; Hello Sunshine; Hello Young lovers; Hello Susie; Say Hello, Wave goodbye; Hello Happiness; Hello My Darlings; Hello Operator; Hello Darling; Hello how are you; Hello Goodbye;

So I took a Hello from each of the tracks found and put them together in a sequence, looped it once and it lasts for 1min19. That then goes with loops of Lionel from the 7″ vinyl in a Katzenjammer. During this session I am playing the Hellos file from an ipad and sampling it into the Morphagene. Later in the video, that comes in a bit abruptly and settles in to add different manipulations of the audio.

It is such a nice loop I could play with it all month! Here I put it through an audio to midi converter that is a bit eccentric and doesn’t always get it right and on into the Mimeophon.

Here are all the songs I took a Hello from –

Playing a loop of Hello while setting up at the theatre I was reminded by Sarah about how the word Hello became used as a telephone greeting and learning that quite recently from the Horrible Histories!