{"id":295,"date":"2010-05-19T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=295"},"modified":"2010-05-19T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:45:12","slug":"chameleon_of_cadence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/05\/chameleon_of_cadence\/","title":{"rendered":"Chameleon of Cadence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Just before I gave up on the idea of becoming a professional player of notes and committed to becoming a professional typer of letters, I remember taking a college entrance audition at DePaul University in Chicago. At the conclusion, the violin professor made some kind comments concluding with the acknowledgment that I was a &#8220;young woman with a very interesting sense of internal rhythm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because of that, um, issue that I am so enamored with artists who have a bit more control of their groove, and no one I have met rocks that better Shodekeh, (a.k.a. Dominic Earle Shodekeh Talifero) a beatboxer out of Baltimore who I guarantee is a talent you&#8217;re going to want to have on your radar. You can read more about him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/article.nmbx?id=6391\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakerartistawards.org\/nomination\/view\/shodekeh_talifero\/\">here<\/a>, and get schooled in the art of vocal percussion in the video below. If hip hop battles are outside your comfort zone, you can catch him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsomusic.org\/main.taf?erube_fh=tessitura&amp;tessitura.submit.CalendarPerfLink=1&amp;PerfNo=9311\">with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra<\/a> on July 23.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B\" codebase=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/qtactivex\/qtplugin.cab\" height=\"256\" width=\"320\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/510\/video\/sho_FINAL.mov\" \/><param name=\"autoplay\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"type\" value=\"video\/quicktime\" height=\"256\" width=\"320\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.newmusicbox.org\/510\/video\/sho_FINAL.mov\" autoplay=\"false\" type=\"video\/quicktime\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/download\/\" height=\"256\" width=\"320\"><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before I gave up on the idea of becoming a professional player of notes and committed to becoming a professional typer of letters, I remember taking a college entrance audition at DePaul University in Chicago. At the conclusion, the violin professor made some kind comments concluding with the acknowledgment that I was a &#8220;young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}