Adam Matta and friends

Show Description

"Like a John Coltrane solo, Adam's Beat Boxing creates narratives which mere words could never accomplish."-Reg E Gaines, playwright, Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk

"......his ability to remix his own voice is remarkable, at first singing over a synced beat and then slowing it down, speeding it up, dubbing, scratching, even using the layrngeal equivalent of a wah-wah pedal. He's wonderful to watch in these moments, right hand on the mic, left hand flailing in time, drops of spit and sweat flying off him. He must get terribly dehydrated...."

Adam Matta, a professional human beatboxer from New York City, is influenced by jazz, hip hop, classic rock, and world music. Some of the highlights of his career were performing at Carnegie Hall with Bobby McFerrin and 19 other young, up and coming vocalists from around the world, creating an improvised opera based on the story of the Tower of Babel and with Bora Yoon at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and John Zorn's downtown space, The Stone; with Shara Worden and My Brightest Diamond at Town Hall;. His musical sensibility was informed by his experience appearing as an extra in Meredith Monk's 2002 production, "mercy," and in Shirin Neshat's "Logic of the Birds." -Village Voice

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