strikethrough me & you – live
Some more me & you action, this time live. Oddly enough, even though we’ve been at this for a while, this was our first live performance. The set went really well, to a full house at The Noise Upstairs. Still working…
Rodrigo
Rodrigo Constanzo makes music and art.
strikethrough me & you – in the studio
I’ve been working on a duet project (me & you) with Sam Andreae for well over a year now. We started shortly after he moved back to the UK after spending a couple of years in Scandinavia. It started off…
an amplifier, a mirror, an explosion, an intention
Early in 2013 a close friend of mine, Linda Jankowska, asked me to write her a violin piece. Despite her being an amazing and dedicated violinist, I told her no. I added “I don’t believe in violin”. I don’t think she…
Everything. Everything at once. Once.
Following on from the compositional ideas I had been developing in my .com pieces (form as content) and Battle pieces (challenge as content), I’m working on a new set of pieces where the choice of instruments is the composition. Instrumentation as…
.com pieces
The .com pieces are a series of pieces I started in early 2013 which are centered around snare drum feedback and form/memory as composi(/improvisa)tional material. So far I have finished two of them, iminlovewithanothergirl.com (for snare, microphone and DMX lights) and ialreadyforgotyourpussy.com (for…
Shbobo/Shnth/Ciat-Lonbarde
So back in March I got some funding from my school to bring one of my favorite instrument makers to the UK. Peter Blasser has been making crazy amazing instruments for years now, and I’ve been using them from the…
Flute + Snare
So I’ve been planning a piece for Richard Craig and myself after discovering that he, too, has been working on feedback-based instrument playing. The idea is to follow up my snare/feedback piece, iminlovewithanothergirl.com (score), with a piece for flute/feedback + snare…
strikethrough me & you – Battle Pieces
“Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.” — Ice-T The Battle Pieces are a series of pieces composed, and performed, with Sam Andreae (as strikethrough me & you) which focus on complex games, improvisational etudes, and competition. The idea for the Battle Pieces came…
Snare + Microphone
Before I talk, here is some sights and sounds: During my summer tour last year I improv-ed my way into using a condenser mic as a friction implement. The sounds were harsh, but very controllable and with a great continuity…
Solo drums + electronics
So I went on a UK tour recently doing solo drums + electronics. Here is a ‘showreel’ of sorts, documenting some choice bits from the different performances. This was the first tour I’ve done since moving onto a laptop as my…
Weak Without You (new composition)
Weak Without You is my latest composition commissioned by Distractfold Ensemble. It looks and sounds like this: It’s written for three female performers who sing and clap (with a bit of a pitched instrument at end). The performers (Linda Jankowska, Emma Richards,…
Musicianship Drills
Here are a couple videos I made for the Art of Teaching project of my favorite drills for working your time and ears.
C-C-Combine
C-C-Combine is a corpus-based audio mosiacing application, built in Max/MSP, based on concatenative synthesis. It sounds like this: And looks like this: Click here to read more about it and to download the patch.
A Greater Horror – Debut EP release
So here it finally is. The post-jazz trio that I’ve been working on with Mauricio Pauly and Alex Tod (A Greater Horror) has finished our debut EP. As always the artwork is by Angela Guyton though this time we’ve gone…
Trio with PA Tremblay & Sam Andreae
Had a gig the other night with two of my favorite performers (Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (we just finished recording a followup album) and Sam Andreae. You can see The Party Van in action on my side, with some more Max/MSP…