Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents

Percussion Studio Recital with Guest Breath Artist Shodekeh

Dominic “Shodekeh” Talifero is a groundbreaking beatboxer, vocal percussionist, and breath artist who pushes the boundaries of the human voice within and outside the context of hip hop music and culture. He was the first vocal percussionist to serve as a dance technique musician and composer-in-residence for the Towson University (TU) Department of Dance. He is the founding director of Embody, A Festival Series of the Vocal Arts, which strives for artistic and cultural convergence through a variety of vocal art traditions including opera and Tuvan throat singing, as well as the many forms of vocal percussion.
    Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion born within the world of Hip Hop, and one the most highly advanced vocal art forms. Imitating and often replacing a drum set, drum machine, or drum loop through a series of vocal effects or percussive sounds primarily produced by the larynx, nasal, oral and chest cavities, Beatboxing exemplifies the Hip Hop philosophy of creating meaningful artistic expressions with limited resources at their most extreme; it replaces the source of the timeless break beat with the human voice, and is a ubiquitous and indigenous feature of the African American city experience and soundscape.

Free and open to the public.
Live-streaming at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0AZAx7wVAg

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Download: Program Percussion Studio Recital 2023.pdf

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://bard.edu/conservatory.

Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space

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