British beatboxing artist Shlomo is in the country to find a vocal percussionist that will form India's first beatbox orchestra. Do you feel the beat?

When British beatbox artist Simon Kahn aka Shlomo travelled to India last year, his ambition was to lay the seed and spread the word about this radical new sound that had juggernauted its way into the music of some of the world's greatest artists. What he did not expect was the overwhelming response from audiences across the county who embraced beatboxing almost instantaneously.



This year, Shlomo collaborates with the British Council and Zomba to create Voctronica, India's first all vocal beatboxing orchestra. Beatboxing aspirants from across the country have been invited to audition for the band.u00a0 The top 10 finalists handpicked by Shlomo himself, will form Voctronica and will be trained in professional beatboxing by some of the best beatboxers in UK and Shlomo himself. We got chatting with Shlomou00a0 to know what the competition sounds like.

India is not the biggest scene on the global beatboxing map. Why here and why now?
At the moment not that many people know about it, but I think it has a lot of scope and potential because of the Indian musical tradition of using your voice to create rhythm. I think that'll enable a lot of musicians in India to learn beatboxing very quickly and to start using it in new ways. In short, I think there is a lot of promise.