Educator, Freelancer, Vice President of the New Jersey Percussive Arts Society, and PAS New Music/Research member Mika Godbole stops by to talk about her adjunct position at William Paterson University (NJ) (03:55), her freelancing career and working as a member of the Mantra Percussion Sextet (20:00), her roles with the Percussive Arts Society (39:40), growing up in India and outside of Philadelphia and her early percussion teachers (54:50), and studying at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for her undergrad, working with Gary Olmstead and Jack Stamp, and her gap year as a young adult in Mumbai (01:05:25).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2025 documentary film It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley (01:22:40).

Mika Godbole Links:

William Paterson University’s Percussion Studio page

Mantra Percussion page

New Jersey PAS Chapter page

Previous Podcast guests mentioned:

Megan Arns in 2017

Casey Cangelosi in 2017

She-e Wu in 2025

Alexandros Fragiskatos in 2021

Karli Viña in 2022

I-Jen Fang in 2023