Beatbox Without Borders
“Play The Instrument of Your SOUL!”
We are a social enterprise using beatboxing and human powered sonic energy for individual and social transformation through creative experiences!
Welcome to THE SOUNDATION!
founded by MC Eucalips
What is Beatboxing?
Beatboxing is the musical art of using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, throat and voice to mimic drum-machines, turntables, percussion and other sounds from technology and nature. It is rooted in African American and Latinx experiences and through Hip Hop culture in the United States, and an essential part of the history and evolution of human vocal mimicry stretching back to early human times. Beatboxing is considered to be the “5th” element of Hip Hop and is also described as “The Universal Language!” A growing practice and subculture in the Global North and South it connects people across economic and social differences creating THE SOUNDATION!
DIMENSIONS OF THE SOUNDATION
We believe in facilitating sonic experiences which educate, promote holistic wellbeing, cultivate an inclusive community, and respect the natural environment.
Education
Wellbeing
Community
Nature
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OUR TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCES
MC Eucalips provides beatboxing vocal scratching, as well as live looping sets with mouth harp, percussion and djing.
Harness and release your own inner sound energy. Amplify your voice. Become Alive Through Sound! Combining elements of beatboxing, vocal percussion, pranayama yoga, shamanic breathing, animal sounds, improvisational sound & movement and other practices, this workshop provides a safe space to amplify your voice, express your self, heal from trauma, and play the instrument of your soul. Using a combination of individual and group exercises participants will leave having learn new beatboxing, breathing and sound techniques. Facilitated by MC Eucalips. 90-120 minutes.
This workshop focuses on teaching the basic elements and sonic vocabulary of beatboxing, such as kick, snare, hi hat, and vocal scratching, and other beatboxing techniques such as melodic bass, lip rolls, cosmic snort and others. Participants lean a variety of different sounds and practices and how to construct entire routines as individuals and in groups. It also sheds light on the history of beatboxing in the USA and globally. Varying lenghts. Facilitated by MC Eucalips
We organize beatbox battles, cyphers and jams bringing beatboxers together across the globe.
We produce, curate and support global festivals and collaborate with local and global partners cultivating communities beyond borders.
An innovative workshop using sound stories and interactive sound games to explore our relationships with climate change.
We conduct socio-linguistic and ethnomusicological research about beatboxing, vocal mimicry and music, and present our ressearch at academic institutions and conferences.
An innovative workshop using sound stories and interactive sound games to explore our relationships with climate change.
Play The Instrument of Your Soul! Join THE SOUNDATION!
WHO WE’VE WORKED WITH
BEATBOX WITHOUT BORDERS IMPACT
50 + locations across the Global North and South
Billions of Sounds!
1000 + event participants
10 + Million of views on insta
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“THE SOUNDATION”
enVision:
we enVision an inclusive, vibrant and vibrating sonic universe, the Soundation
Mission:
Our mission is to realize our vision of the Soundation, through media, research, education and performances and promotion of beatboxing, vocal imitation and music.
Philosophy: The world is a Soundation, a sonic universe vibrating in an eternal rhythmic and melodic evolution since time imemorial. From the big bang , to the word of God to Om, to the breath of the trees: Let’s push the borders of beatbox, vocal imitation and music to new levels, listen more deeply and expand our consciousness
Who is MC Eucalips?
Just some dude who makes weird sounds with his mouth……
MC Eucalips also known as Cameron Martin Campbell is a globally recognized beatboxer, mouth harp player, percussionist, emcee and ethnomusicologist. A Celtic Scotsman, born in India to an American father (also born in India) and an Australian mother, he spent his younger years in India and Indonesia, before moving to New York at the age of 15. Influenced by the social activism of his parents who worked community development, he grew up playing drums and rapping in revolutionary rap punk and funk groups. He first heard beatboxing in 1999 after his friend gave him Make The Music by Rahzel. This changed his life. Already familiar with the Indian vocal percussive traditions in India through his father a percussionist and flute player who specialised in avant garde jazz and Nepali folktunes, the rhythmic rants of the birds, and Scatman John, Rahzel opened his ears to a whole new sonic landscape. Years later after honing his craft and experimenting with different sounds, he began to compete in battles. He reached top 16 in the 2015 American Beatbox Championships. After being diagnosed with chronic lyme disease he began experimenting on himself, attempting to see if he could use his own sounds to destroy the baterial spirochetes in his body, and it just him feel better and helped his wellbeing over all. Perhaps because of oxygenation to the brain, and the similaries to pranayam yoga. He started to understand the connections between beatboxing, breath control and sound healing, as well as its roots in radical and revolutionary thought and amplifying marginalized voices. A polyglot who lived in a variety of different cultures, he admired that beatbox was a mode of communication that transcended local linguistic, social and economic differences. He is inspired by bio-acoustics and electronic machines and the mimicry and merging of nature and technology. He has performed and produced beatboxing and hip hop events all over the world focusing initally on India and the United States. He has co-published a paper on beatbox culture with socio-linguist Jaspal Naveel Singh and conducts research and delivers presentations on beatboxing globally. MC Eucalips, has also worked extensively in sustainable development ad social impact initiatives in the United States and the global South.