Rodrigo
Rodrigo Constanzo makes music and art.
Lights
Here are a couple of performance videos using an approach I’ve just recently started calling Light Vomit. What you see in the video is a combination of automated processing (via The Party Van/Cut Glove) with a variety of DMX light interactions and behaviors.…
dfscore 2.0
dfscore 2.0 is here! dfscore 2.0 is a much improved and completely rewritten version of dfscore that I started working on a couple of years ago. The dfscore system is a realtime dynamic score system built to display a variety of musical material over…
Cut Glove – new gamepad-based software
Here is the new piece of software based around an Xbox 360 controller that I’ve been working on for about a year. It is called Cut Glove and it’s a live-sampling and processing patch that contains mappings based on video game mechanisms and metaphors. This…
This is why
Something that I’ve alluded to in various blog posts, and is present in the whole of my webpage, but I’ve never specifically talked about, are my thoughts on openness, sharing, money, and capitalism. Ever since Ray Evanoff prodded me to…
karma~
Here it is. Finally… I am incredibly proud to present karma~, a dynamically lengthed, varispeed record/playback looper external for Max. And here is a tutorial video showing some of what karma~ can do: karma~, has been in somewhat active development since September…
Titles (synchronicity, time travel, magic, etc…)
A Possibility: Title as prophecy. The art and muck that you are involved with bends around you, is bigger than you, is smarter than you. It points in a direction that you could not conceive. That you could not imagine.…
Making decisions in time
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Table of Contents Background Development Implementation Analyses The Future /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Background It started with a simple question: “Why compose at all?” At the time I was working on what would later become iminlovewithanothergirl.com and was trying to figure out how to…
Everything. Everything at once. Once. (3)
Here is the 3rd iteration of my ongoing series of pieces ‘Every. Everything at once. Once’. Before I gib gab about it, here is “Everything Everything at once. Once. (3a)”: The idea for these pieces is to focus my creative process…
iminlovewithanothergirl.com – Full Length
Very happy to post this full-length version of iminlovewithanothergirl.com. Even though I’ve talked about the piece several times, and have posted multiple versions of it, I didn’t have a full-length ‘studio’ version of it. Until now. Behold: It was an…
dfscore
Here is a short video introduction of the dfscore system, which I’ve been working on for some time now. The dfscore system is a dynamic score display system built to function over a local network to display a variety of musical material. The…
New Instrument – Grassi Box
I’ve been working on a relay-based hardware repatching instrument for quite a while. The idea being that I could use my computer (running Max) to control a bunch of my weird (ciat-lonbarde) hardware synths. I recruited Dan Wilson of Circitfied to build the transistor/relay…
The Party is back
After over a year, I’m finally putting out a version of The Party Van, a free software system/instrument/environment that I built in Max. It’s also officially out of beta now and the version numbers will reflect that. It has gone…
In progress
The last few months have been both slow and busy at the same time. In that time I’ve been slowly working on multiple pieces/projects simultaneously. I figured it might be interesting to make a blog post about things in progress.…
Everything. Everything at once. Once. (2)
Back in October of last year I came up with a new idea on how to approach some of the music I’ve been making. The basic idea was to put the creative or ‘compositional’ focus on the instrumentation part of…