Breaths Along the Potomac: Breath Art Silent Walks

Taking place at George Washington’s Mount Vernon with Shodekeh for “Freedom Before Emancipation: Family Day” for Juneteenth, June 19th – 22nd, 2024.

King Coal

Watch the season opener & national broadcast premiere on the PBS documentary series POV on June 24th, 2024, featuring an original Breath Art soundscore created by Shodekeh.

Vodalities

“Vodalities” is the score of the three movement composition written by Shodekeh for the percussion ensemble Sō Percussion. The first movement “The Universality of Breath Art”, has just been recently archived in the Music division at the Library of Congress.

pencil drawing of Shodekeh in a hoodie sweatshirt

What is Breath Art?

It’s what happens when the everyday function and expressivity of breathing is isolated apart from speaking, singing, beatboxing and so on, then cultivated as a creative + artistic medium all unto itself. Through that singular focus, the human breath can then be used to produce such emulative sounds of wind, the ocean, thunder, crickets, whatever the imagination can align itself with from the worlds of nature, music and endless sonic phenomenon.

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