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Cody Giannotti /Photon

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About Me




Cody Giannotti/Photon is a Multi-Instrumental Beatboxer, Experimental Musician, Composer, Poet/Writer, Director, Sound/Video Designer and Educator. Photon uses live-looping technology to fuse traditional styles of hip-hop, scat and storytelling with elements of funk and jazz to address issues surrounding activism and social change. Cody is classically trained in Bel canto voice method as well as Suzuki piano and has been beatboxing from childhood. He is a voice, beatbox and vocal composition instructor at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory as well as at New College of California.
Cody recently premired his latest evening length show, "10 Minutes: A Fusion Rapretta," a story of loyalty, trust and queer identity at the Faultline Festival. He has worked with the Erika Shuch Performance (ESP) Project, San Francisco Circus Center, The Drama Mamas, SF Youth Circus, "Stomp" veteran Mina Liccione, Cera of Damage Control Dance Theater, NY Hip-Hop Theater Festival, CounterPULSE, the Intersection for the Arts, Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, SF Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival, Dance Mission, SF International Arts Festival, Project Artaud Theater, Palace of Fine Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF Museum of Modern Art and is a member of ArtFace Productions.
Cody holds an M.A. in Performance Activism from the Experimental Performance Institute (EPI) at New College of California and is working toward his M.F.A. which he will receive in the summer of 2007.
http://www.voicefactorysf.org/vocal.html
http://www.epiarts.org
http://www.dramamamas.com/about_us.php

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Member Since: 8/31/2006
Band Website: You are here! Welcome to another dimension!
Band Members: All Voice. All Cody Giannotti.
Influences: Mom, Dad, Jason, Levi, Rob Brezney, Alan Oken, Kid Beyond, Tommy 'Soulati' Shepherd, Infinite, Felonious, Scratch, RadioActive, Dr. Dre, The D.O.C., Dead Prez, Tim Barsky, 2Pac, Outkast, Eminem, Biz Markee, The Neptunes, Isabelle Sjasham, Malinda Trimble, Christina Lowery
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"Musicality serves as the driving force behind the work of Cody Giannotti. For Giannotti music simultaneously acts as a release from the pressures of modern society, as well as a scientific method through which to examine them. It is through the sheer harmonious joy of his lush vocal landscapes that we are able to access the deeper philisophical meaning of his work. Music, however, is not the only tool employed by Giannotti, there is a deep appreciation for the comedic nature of society and its rituals whether they be rooted in folklore or coroporate mythology. Through this appreciation, we are given back a reflection of our society through a cracked mirror, slightly skewed but wholly recognizable. There is no sacred object unworthy of a playful deconstruction. The absurdity of tradition, any tradition, seems to lend itself to a humerous sort of manufacturing of a world in which mythos and cultural references entwine seamlessly, creating a textured reality that both supports and compliments the vocal composition of his work. One of Giannotti's greatest gifts is his prolific story telling abilities. The stories presented to his audiences are magnificently engaging while maintaining a layered quality that is anything but predictable. The seemingly lighthearted nature of his almost storybook-like work gives way to a deeper, sadder critique of modern society and its accompanying ills; a critique that we are only able to appreciate through his masterful juxtapositioning of both the sweet and sour of life."

--Steven Tritto, MFA writing on the work of Cody Giannotti, Spring 2007

Here is a clip of the beautiful Cera's birthday party at Shoebox Studio.
http://damage-control.org/index2.html

If you're interested in learning about the voice, beatboxing or songwriting you may want to check out cody's weekly vocal jam at The Voice Factory - http://www.voicefactorysf.org/vocal.html

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Here's the promo for the SF Hip Hop Theater Festival you can see a flash of me toward the end!

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Here is the music video for 'No More Weapons' by Steel Pulse feat. Damien Marley, directed by Ben Stokes, which premiered on MTV. For a bonus, see if you can guess which silhouette actors are Multi-Media Theater Artists Sara Kraft and Ed Purver, an added bonus if you can guess which one is Ben Stokes himself and even more mega-super-huge bonus if you can guess which ones are ME!

Record Label: Self-Released
Type of Label: None