thumb pianos. It became part of their 2009 album Crosstalk on Bridge Records and was featured on WNYC's New Sounds in 2010. Praise songs and installations A series of Mendi + Keith's works dedicated to other artists. If the Heavens Don't Hear/The Earth Will Hear (2008) This two-song project was originally created for a benefit for the arts center Denniston Hill, founded by Paul Pfeiffer, Julie Mehretu, Lawrence Chua, Beth Stryker, Robin Vachal and kara lynch. For this event Mendi + Keith created their first two praise songs. If the Heavens Don't Hear (A Roller Skating Jam for Marian Anderson) is an R&B song created in honor of the opera singer Marian Anderson. The song was remixed by Gordon Voidwell/WILLS. The Earth Will Hear (for Audre Lorde and Marlon Riggs) was created in honor of the poet Audre Lorde and filmmaker Marlon Riggs. The Good Hand (for Toni Morrison) (2010) The Good Hand is a song written and performed in the style of a folk ballad. In this work the Obadike's set writer Toni Morrison's historic Nobel Prize Lecture to music. The work was included in the book Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing. Albedo (for Angela Davis) (2014) Albedo is a four-channel sound installation. In the audio recording, a fable is told by a lone voice about an ogre and his battle with the moon. The story is underscored with a droning bassline, the chirping of nocturnal insects and the distant cry of loons. The central wall of the installation is printed with a quote from philosopher and activist Angela Davis on freedom. Blues Speaker (for James Baldwin) (2015) Blues Speaker is a large-scale 24-channel, 12-hour sound work installed in The New School in New York. The piece wraps around the building turning the glass facade of the University Center into a speaker. The artists used their own field recordings from Harlem mixed with original music and excerpts of their performance of James Baldwin's short story "Sony's Blues." Ring Shout (for Octavia Butler) (2016) Ring Shout is a four-channel work made for a gallery context. It uses text from a unpublished story by science fiction writer Octavia Butler combined with swirling atmospheric recordings made by the Obadikes to create a circular sound reminiscent of the African-American folk dance, the ring shout. Americana suites In Big House/Disclosure (2007) Mendi + Keith created an 8-channel sound-installation in Northwestern University's Kresge