Shodekeh's work with the Towson University Department of Dance has led to many other appointments as a musician-in-residence at the NYU Tisch School of Dance, The Peabody Dance BFA program, the CCBC Dance program, the Goucher Dance program & the Patapsco Center for the Arts Dance program.

"The Corcoran College of Art and Design (500 17th St. NW) will be hosting Shodekeh at 7 p.m. in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Krysia Bock. He'll also be holding workshops with students all weekend to conceptualize his performance. The performance is part of the weekly Corcoran Uncorked, which is free for members and students." - The Washington Examiner. Photo by Philip Edward Laubner. 

Dubscience Films Presents its first Short Film!!! Beatbox & Ballet featuring Shodekeh Talifero.

"The Towson University Department of Dance's Mission advocates Dancing for a Lifetime by challenging students to examine and refine their approaches to the arts of dancing, choreography, and dance education. Towson offers professional dance training within the context of a comprehensive liberal arts education. Majors experience rigorous preparation to dance and create dance at all ages and stages of life—in professional companies, as educators and as arts advocates." - The Towson University Department of Dance.

Shodekeh's work at ADF @ Duke has led to many other opportunities as a guest musician for such lumanaries as  Ailey II of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company, Senga Nengudi, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Liz Lerman, Shen Wei Dance Arts & Eiko Otake.

"Heralded as “One of the nation’s most important institutions” by the New York Times and as “The world’s greatest dance festival” by the New York Post, the American Dance Festival’s sustained record of creative achievement is indivisible from the history of modern dance. Since 1934, ADF has remained committed to serving the needs of dance, dancers, choreographers, and professionals in dance-related fields." - The American Dance Festival.

"ADF is fortunate to have some of the finest dance musicians in the country on its roster."

- The American Dance Festival @ Duke University. 

"Play is essential. It’s spontaneous, engaging, and sparks a tangible exchange of energy. Play is also undervalued, dismissed, and typically reserved for children. Starting from the notion that unstructured play is a fertile playground for creativity, the collaborative process that led to making play • ground with the dancers, was largely rooted in impromptu play and experimentation." - Patrizia Herminjard.

"When centering ‘playing’ in the creative process, we let go of expectations, fall into the present moment, and become uninhibited. Play, in its simplest form is about being open to the idea that anything is possible. It is the blueprint to imagining solutions. Harnessing play readies us to create change and imagine new stories, forging our future."

- Patrizia Herminjard.

"In this most recent academic year I was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professorship here at Colorado College for 2024 - 2025, & one of my main projects in this fellowship as the very first "Breath Artist-in-Residence" was to reimagine Senga Nengudi's multimedia + fabric art piece "Warp Trance" directly with the legendary "process artist" herself." - Dominic Shodekeh Talifero. 

The video art of this work is now available for viewing on You Tube, & I'm so very inspired by Senga's holistic brilliance & neverending curatorial process, as she has found a way to subtly edit, stitch, collage & essentially "fabricize" my creative breath techniques + embodied movements & the collaborative choreography of CC dance major Ella Boyd Brocker into the very artwork itself.

Winner of the 2024 Women Empowerment Award at the Rome Film Festival & the 2023 International Music Video Underground Award. 

"The wispy quality of professional ballerinas sets a precedent for aspiring dancers that is often unachievable through healthy practices. As a result, young dancers are typically tempted to change their bodies by overexercising or under-eating. Director Katherine Hutchinson visually expresses how ballet shaped her body image using aerial dance and an original score. The film demonstrates the restriction of body shame and the freedom of relinquishing that shame." - The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. 

Official selection at the Tokyo International Short Film Festival, the San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, the Toronto Indie Filmmaker's Festival & the Aerial Arts Film Festival, 2024.

"In my interviews with current and former ballet dancers, I found their stories of body shame and eating disorders echoed my own. We pushed ourselves through 8 hours of dance with nothing but a granola bar in our stomachs. We hated wearing a leotard and tights in front of a mirror all day. We all had these experiences and still, many of my interview questions were met with the phrase, “I’ve never told anyone this but…” To start conversations about body shame in the performing arts, I am creating a collaborative video project using aerial dance and original music to express how ballet shaped my body image. This piece will demonstrate the restriction of body shame and the freedom of relinquishing that shame." - Kate Hutchinson. 

Shodekeh has been a musical participant at TEDxBaltimore (2011), TEDxMidAtlantic (2012) & TEDxPittsburgh (2017). 

"Interweaving the Eastern and Western forms of music – throat singing and beatboxing – was surprisingly natural, says Shodekeh, a musical accompanist and composer in residence for Towson (Maryland) University’s Department of Dance, and dance accompanist at Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute. “There are these similar styles and techniques from completely different sides of the planet, but yet there are these strong vocal methods that have enough in common with one another that they could possibly fuse with one another,” Shodekeh says. “People like the combination and it works really well for audiences. Actually I am in a really interesting space now, where I am trying to refine my relationship with Alash even more." - East Tennessee State University. 

But something bigger than the music is occurring, Shodekeh and Quirk are quick to note. “All of us involved have been working on this cultural bridge between Kyzyl, Tuva and Baltimore, Maryland, bridging at large, nations and music cultures,” Quirk says in the podcast. “But it’s an easy match. Both things also share the use of the body used in a way that is natural but very extraordinary.”

- East Tennessee State University. 

Shodekeh has been awarded an "American Month of Culture" grant for adjacent work in musical ambassadorship by the U.S. Embassy of Lithuania in 2009.

"Ondar’s life work was brought to fruition when, after six years of constant effort plowing through mountains of bureaucracy and wrangling officials and ministers, the Center for Traditional Tuvan Culture and Crafts was completed in 2012 in the center of Kyzyl, Tuva’s capital city. The center provides a much-needed home for traditional Tuvan musicians, craftspeople, and folklorists, and establishes a dedicated space for the celebration and transmission of Tuva’s heritage by and for Tuvans. Sadly, after only a year as leader of the center, Ondar passed away suddenly in the summer of 2013 from a stroke at age 51. Nevertheless, his legacy lives on; he remains the musical father of an entire generation of Tuvan musicians, many of whom are the finest current performers of Tuva’s traditional music. It is to his memory that this album is dedicated." - Sean Quirk of Alash. 

"An American beatboxer pushes the limits of the human voice, when he journeys to the remote Republic of Tuva to blend his skills with the art of Xöömei (hoo-may), an ancient vocal tradition singers can produce multiple musical notes at the same time." - Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

"Shodekeh is a professional beatboxer, vocal percussionist, and hip hop-xöömei artist based in Baltimore, Maryland, whose deep interest in experimenting and collaborating with varying musical cultures and genres takes him to destinations worldwide. Shodekeh’s first trip to Tuva was documented in the 2016 film Shu-de! From classical, jazz, and modern dance to reinterpretations of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Shodekeh’s ability simultaneously to act as a preservationist and catalyst for change serves his many creative and rhythmic travels as an individual musician, and as founding director and lead curator of Embody, a festival of the vocal arts. About his work with Alash, Shodekeh enthuses, “My experience working with Alash has been very organic, fluid, synchronistic. To be given a rare opportunity to add my sound in tribute not only to Tuva, but also to Kongar-ool Ondar, the musical father of the ensemble (which makes him one of my musical uncles), tells me that we’re the next generation of ambassadors, preservationists, and storytellers. The journey continues, as well as the culture and the music.”- Sean Quirk of Alash.
https://learninglab.si.edu/resources/view/2367980

"The three members are graduates of the Kyzyl Arts College and students of Kongar-ool Ondar, renowned master throat singer and member of the Tuvan parliament who was featured in the movie Genghis Blues. Trained in traditional Tuvan music since childhood, they also cultivate a love of Western music—and sometimes include nontraditional instruments, old and new, drawing upon their knowledge of complex rhythms and Western harmonies to expand their musical possibilities. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings recently released the group’s latest album, Achai. Alash performs with guest artist Shodekeh Talifero, a professional beatboxer and vocal percussionist currently working in the Baltimore area and beyond." - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival. 

Shodekeh's work with Alash has led to other dynamic collaborations with such legendary Tuvan ensembles as Huun Huur Tu, Ugulza, Khoomei Beat & the Tuvan National Orchestra. 

"Alash's inclusion of master Beatboxer & musical adventurer Shodekeh on the album represents a deliberate choice in their vision of the future development of Tuvan music. Since Alash's formation, the group members have sought to master the roots of their deep musical heritage & yet find ways to participate in the interconnected sound world of the 21st century." - Alash.
https://folkways.si.edu/alash/achai

"Alash’s inclusion of master beatboxer and musical adventurer Shodekeh on the album represents a deliberate choice in their vision of the future development of Tuvan music. Since Alash’s formation, the group members have sought to master the roots of their deep musical heritage and yet find 11 ways to participate in the interconnected sound world of the 21st century. Performing with Shodekeh, himself the bearer of a rich but often misunderstood vocal tradition, creates a real-time musical connection between living performers, organically created and deeply rooted, yet futuristic." - Sean Quirk.

Featuring special guests Joyce J. Scott, Wendel Patrick, Dr. Erik Spangler, Eze Jackson, Jasmine Pope, Rafaela Dreisin & Donnie Carlo. 

"It would be tempting to say that on the evening October 10, 2019, something unique and inimitable took place at WTMD studios in Towson Maryland, and in a way, that would be true, but it also doesn’t tell the full story. It was indeed a unique event, in that it was the first and only time in history that this unique group of artists gathered together to create a studio recording in front of a live audience. All of these artists - vocalists, DJs, rappers, banjo pickers, trumpeters, beatboxers, keyboardists, and more, were pulled into orbit for this one night by the two musicians at the center of the project, two men from two vastly different places, with a single vision - Bady-Dorzhu Ondar and Shodekeh." - Sean Quirk of Alash.
https://www.earuprecords.com/embodiments 

Shodekeh was awarded the 2019 WTMD Alternative Music Award for curating the vocal arts series Embody, one of the main sources of inspiration for the album "Embodiments."

"On Thursday Oct. 10, WTMD is thrilled to host a cross-cultural show and live album recording featuring Bady-Dorzhu Ondar and Alash, some of the world’s best Tuvan throat singers, accompanied by special guests Wendel Patrick and Erik Spangler of the Baltimore Boom Bap Society, Jabari Exum, choreographer for Marvel’s “Black Panther,” Baltimore vocal artist Shodekeh, rapper Eze Jackson, Rafaela Dreisin and Stephanie Ray of Classical Revolution Baltimore and more! All of the performers will be rehearsing at WTMD in the days leading up to the show, which will be recorded for Bady Dorzhu’s upcoming solo album. The result will be a mix of Tuvan throat singing, beatboxing, classical music, rapping and much more." - WTMD 89.7 FM (Former affiliate of Towson University).

This historic U.S. premiere with the BSO has led Shodekeh to dynamic collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, the Columbia Orchestra, the Connecticut Youth Symphony, the Frederick Regional Youth Orchestra & the Opus 89 Youth Orchestra @ The Hartt School.

"Baltimore beatboxer Shodekeh rehearses Fujiko's Fairy Tale with Music Director Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. This unique collaboration will be featured in the BSO's Music of Frank Zappa and Phillip Glass concert at the Meyerhoff on Friday, July 23, 2010." - The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Photograph by What Weekly.

"Baltimore beatboxer Shodekeh rehearses Fujiko's Fairy Tale with Music Director Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. This unique collaboration will be featured in the BSO's Music of Frank Zappa and Phillip Glass concert at the Meyerhoff on Friday, July 23, 2010." - The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
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Vodalities: Paradigms of Consciousness for the Human Voice was co-commissioned by the Caramoor Festival, Sō Percussion’s New Work Development Program, Bard Conservatory Percussion, Baylor University Percussion, the University of Michigan Percussion, and Vanderbilt University Percussion.

"Shodekeh Talifero’s Vodalities: Paradigms of Consciousness for the Human Voice was composed orally and transmitted to Sō Percussion through recordings. He originally sent us the three movements as completed performances and also as individual stems for transcribing each part. We then translated his vocal percussion sounds into physical percussion. The skill, creativity, and range of colors in Shodekeh’s practice is astonishing. The only way to fully grasp this is to hear him perform, which is why it is essential to listen to the accompanying mp3s before building your own interpretation of the piece." - Dr. Adam Sliwinski of Sō Percussion.
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2021/12/11/S-Percussion-and-Friends-0900PM 

"Vodalities, Paradigms of Consciousness for the Human Voice" composed by Dominic Shodekeh Talifero: Asia premiere @ the University of the Arts Singapore in the National Design Centre of Singapore in 2026.

"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 possessing a degree of synesthesia when I perform or hear music in terms of specific shapes and wild movements." - Dominic Shodekeh Talifero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_ijyG135g

"Happy Holidays from Sirena Huang, violin and HSO artist in residence, and Shodekeh, beatboxer and guest artist for the January 5 - 8, 2012 'Brahms & Beatboxing' Masterworks performance."

- The Hartford Symphony Orchestra.

"It’s darn near impossible to reinterpret material from a musical icon without diluting the original’s vitality or tampering with some key component of the artist’s vision. But local beatboxer Shodekeh effectively re-imagined Meredith Monk’s classic “Dolmen Music” as a hip-hop instrumental by enhancing it with a battery of rhythmic flourishes. Monk’s original displayed plenty of depth but not much drive, while the Shodekeh track, featured on Monk Mix, favored solid beats over the drift of abstraction. It exuded mystery, even as it flexed newfound might, and proved to be the highlight of a collection that also featured Bjork and DJ Spooky." - Baltimore Magazine.

Baltimore Magazine "Best of Baltimore" Award: Best Homage for Shodekeh's Meredith Monk Remix, 2012. Featuring Dr. Erik Spangler, Max Bent, Kate Porter & Bonnie Lander.

"Composer, vocalist, filmmaker and MacArthur Fellow Meredith Monk has created a unique body of work that uses the voice as an instrument. Now, her songs have been covered and remixed by a wide array of musicians, from Bjork to Caetano Veloso to DJ Spooky. Monk joins us to share her reaction to the surprising results on “Monk Mix.” - WNYC Studios.

"I would love to see how the composer notated this for beat boxer!" - Davey Doodle.

"There are 6 main beats which were created by Shodekeh (1 for each of the chess pieces) and his part in the score is more like a map, showing when to play each of the beats and for how long. The soloist used a chess board on a music stand for his score in some of the performances!" - Ruby Fulton.

"This exhibition's 100+ visionary artists/scientists/inventors and philosophers take a fresh look at the very notion of light, color, sound, pattern, number, scale, and purpose in their personal pursuit of Wonder." - Music & The Brain, science event gathering of the exhibition The Marriage of Art, Science & Philosophy @ the American Visionary Arts Museum.

"While in Salzburg for the "Neuroscience of Art" session, Charles Limb & Shodekeh Talifero spoke about their experiences at Salzburg Global Seminar and what goes on in a beatboxer's brain and body when they perform." - The Salzburg Global Seminar.

"Research Remix invited student and faculty researchers at JHU to collaborate with local artists and designers in new and unexpected ways. Over the course of a year-long initiative, participating artists were invited to choose a researcher to partner with and to use their work as the basis for new creative projects. A dedicated website and online gallery allowed participants to browse each other’s work, and the final matches were made at a where researchers shared their work and answered questions. Research Remix invited student and faculty researchers at JHU to collaborate with local artists and designers in new and unexpected ways. Over the course of a year-long initiative, participating artists were invited to choose a researcher to partner with and to use their work as the basis for new creative projects. A dedicated website and online gallery allowed participants to browse each other’s work, and the final matches were made at a public reception and artist talk where researchers shared their work and answered questions." - The Digital Media Center of Johns Hopkins University.
https://studentaffairs.jhu.edu/dmc/research-remix-exhibition/ 

"Jurors included Marnie Benney (interdisciplinary curator, SciArt New York), Jennifer Fairman (Professor of Art as Applied to Medicine at JHMI), and Shodekeh (Interdisciplinary performer and faculty at Towson University). For the exhibition of selected work in 2016, the three jurors each presented short presentation of their work, including a beatboxing performance by Shodekeh that accompanied pre-recorded video from inside the performer’s larynx." - The Digital Media Center of Johns Hopkins University. 

"I am an artist specializing in socially and environmentally engaged practice.  My most recent work considers the artworks and artifacts that illuminate ancient systems of knowledge and understanding that predate our current systems of recording and defining science and history such as sacred geometry, alchemy, myth and traditional knowledge systems. I explore ecological ways of thinking by examining the artifacts created by cultures that lived or live, in close proximity to natural cycles; most often ancient and indigenous peoples living before the agricultural revolution as I see that period in history as a critical turning point for our species culturally and ecologically. Through my work I hope to investigate and share, in equal measure, ideas and perspectives that lie in the borderlands between science and myth, physical and transcendental, creator and creation." - Erica Hansen.  

"Former Patterson Resident Artist Shodekeh hosts this exploration of human vocal possibilities. The operatic thrill of Bonnie Lander, cosmic throat singing by Ian Hesford of Telesma and heart pounding beat boxing by Shodekeh are showcased in solo performances, and merge in a closing collaborative joint set. Images created by Patterson Resident Artist Erica Hansen based on the vocal artists are projected on stage. Q&A follows." - The Creative Alliance. 

"The Neuroscience of Art: What Are The Sources of Creativity & Innovation?" Session 547 @ Salzburg Global is archived in the Salzburg Global records of the Harvard University Archives at Harvard Library. 

"Shodekeh Talifero has embarked on many collaborations over his career as a professional beatboxer - not only with other musicians from a diverse range of backgrounds, but also with neuroscientists as he seeks to reinforce his musical intuition. As a participant in Session 547 | The Neuroscience of Art: What are the Sources of Creativity and Innovation?, the Towson University Department of Dance Faculty spoke to Salzburg Global about the origins and values of beatboxing, why he works with neuroscientists and his favorite musical moment of the session." - Salzburg Global.
https://issuu.com/salzburgglobal/docs/salzburgglobal_report_547

"That’s right. We are traveling to Baltimore for the Maryland STEM Festival opening ceremonies, which take place from 1-4pm ET at the National Aquarium. Our show lineup will be packed with not only science news, but also live interviews! We will be joined by a NASA scientist, a marine scientist, AND world renowned, but local Baltimore beatboxer, Shodekeh… expect musical, conversational, and scientific excitement." - This Week In Science. 

"The OneBeat 2018 mixtape, divided into six chapters, takes inspiration from Carl Sagan's famous 1971 Golden Record, sent into outer space aboard two Voyager spacecrafts, setting a human record for the farthest flung human LPs. The last chapter, Heliopause, is left to the most experimental works, abstract pieces perhaps only understandable by the most adventurous human ears (and ideally a few extra-terrestrial ones), as Voyager journeys on into the dark beyond." - One Beat.
https://1beat.org/program/onebeat-2018/media/

"Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded Voyager, both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future. With this example before them, NASA placed a more ambitious message aboard Voyager 1 and 2, a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record, a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth." - NASA JPL.

"Reading Books" written by Samah Boulmona, Shodekeh Talifero, Zsolt Bartek, Yen-Lin Goh, Salma Soltan, Jeremy Thal and Christopher Botta. Samah Boulmona, Zsolt Bartek, Yen-Lin Goh and Salma Soltan: Reading and Book Percussion. Shodekeh Talifero: Reading, Vocal Percussion, Breath Art and Vocal Emulations. - One Beat.

"A golden phonograph record was attached to each of the Voyager spacecraft that were launched almost 50 years ago. One of the purposes was to send a message to extraterrestrials who might find the spacecraft as the spacecraft journeyed through interstellar space. In addition to pictures and music and sounds from earth, greetings in 55 languages were included." - NASA JPL.