and there was one fateful day, january 2006, vincent thomas, a professor of modern dance here at towson university, was in the audience. he approached me about having me come in and play music for a dance class. i thought he meant for like a week or two, or maybe two weeks, but he meant for the entire semester actually. so when that happened, a whole new world just opened up to me. [beatboxing] i was at the point, willing and able, to take it to anywhere just to see where i stood as a musician, if i could match wits with these different forms, whether it was in dance or even the visual arts, doing musical interpretations of still work, and trying to find ways to have music as a tool to bring the artwork to life, those sorts of challenges. and also to, not just to challenge myself, but to challenge the people within these genres who aren't used to these sorts of experiences, to kind of challenge their notions or preconceived ideas of what a beatboxer is supposed to do -- or not supposed to do -- because there are some people who didn't like that i was beatboxing for ballet. but i kinda d

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