Shockwave is Chris Sullivan, beatboxer, percussionist, improviser, producer, visual freelancer, (un)employed, actor, starving, reminicent, unknown, famous, "it's all happening", creative, complicated, unexpected, ambitious, obsessed, hypomanic, eagle scout, preschool teacher, production assistant, ice cream man, chicken man, craigslist surfer, new york city, foxboro, cape cod, los angeles, bike riding, camping, adbuster, ex-born again, still believe in god, more believe in love, try anything, crush groove, wild style, beat street, b-boy, urbanite, suburbanite, honkey, skinny, flirt, forever single, let's get married, trouble causer, mischief maker, furniture off the street, straight not narrow, make me famous, music, lover, music lover, college loans and fuck my credit.
Influences
My talented friends- the beatboxers, the improvisers, the variety performers... Eclectic, cutting edge or newly emerging - primarily hip-hop. conscious rap, true freestyle, indy-hop, Multitrack/layered drum and bass and complicated electric music. Old school rock/punk- fugazi, gorilla biscuits, propaghandi, minor threat, the pixies. Simple new rock/indy like the postal service, karate, pedro the lion, sunny day real estate..
Review of FLS in Melbourne's "The Age" Interview on beatboxing.com Interview on theapiary.org
"...deft human beat-boxing sound effects"
Time Out NY
"...muscular percussion..."
Village Voice
"...uses his mouth like a sound effects program that no computer could possibly match for depth of stored data or instantaneous retrieval."
The Age
"Shockwave makes a great squirrel with his human percussion skills."
British Theatre Guide
"...layered musical soundtracks which merge with the rap in unexpectantly delightful ways."
The Scotsman
"Shockwave bowls the audience over with his breakneck beatboxing ability"
AOL City Guide
WHO I WANT TO MEET
Shockwave is a beatboxer, and a good beatboxer, be beatboxing as if he was beating a box, and u gotta beat that box to create that beat because a good beatboxer beat boxing needs to have that beatbox bumping like if the beat was coming out of a box on the street, and streets is where beatboxing was born, so when u beatbox you gotta beatbox for the streets cuz if the streets if feeling your beatbox, then you know your beatboxing cant be beat!
I miss you. (Sing that like the Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam song. Or was that someone else? Like Atlantic Starr? Hmm... I should have Googled it before I posted. Oh well!)
i KNOW. i miss seeing you too! it looks like not only am i missing our armani banter, but i also missed out on your sassy new haircut, judging from your photo.
Friend or foe? I didn't see this clip that beccalu is talking about. I just want to know if he is part of the problem (broccoli) or the solution (chocolate) Happy New Year.
I just saw the clip of you beatboxing with the american idol dude...it was so awesome! I was cheering along with the audience :) Nice my famous friend!
how's things coming hope well i havent talk to you guys in awhile but i still think about the times i was there and how much fun music is with the group. Take care and keep it up. Cant wait to show you what i've been working on since i left.
here's a little reminder of what you did about a month ago at 6.15 in the morning...ha! the festival left quite a gap, i have to admit.. hope things are going swimmingly on your side of the pond!
