Vodalities by Dominic Shodekeh Talifero (perf by Shodekeh and Sō Percussion)

Video by Four/Ten Media, directed by Evan Chapman (2023). Engineered by Nelson Dorado; mixed and mastered by Matthew Poirier. Performed by Shodekeh and Sō Percussion (Adam Sliwinski, Eric Cha-Beach, Jason Treuting, Josh Quillen). Video performance shot in Baltimore, MA at 2640 Project at St. John’s United Methodist Church 1/29/23 Vodalities: Paradigm of Consciousness for the Human Voice I. “The Universality of Breath Art” (Dedicated to Bobby McFerrin) II. “The Genealogy of Vocal Percussion” (Dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald) III: “The Mathematics of Beatboxing“ (Dedicated to Doug E. Fresh: The Original Human Beatbox.) When I first composed “Vodalities“ for Sō Percussion in 2020, I was ecstatic that it was going be transcribed and arranged by one of the world’s very best and most imaginative percussion ensembles, but I hadn’t at the time visualized what the ensemble performing it live would look like, even though I do enjoy possessi