Solo Performance – Cruce Contemporaneo – Madrid – 22/04/17

Friends. Objects. Lights. Feet.

Over the years I have had many wonderful discussions with people whom I have never met. Either through emails, forums, or even chatrooms I have talked about all manner of things with people scattered around the world. Sometimes these virtual friendships manifest in the physical world and a thing is born. An art thing. This is one of those times.

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NUStival – Fuel Cafe – Manchester – 28/01/17

Who	NUStival
When	Saturday, January 28, 2017 7:00pm - All Ages
Where	Fuel Cafe (map) 448 Wilmslow Road Manchester, England M20 3BW
Other Info	NUStival - a mini-festival of improvised music. Featuring selected groupings of: Mick Beck Cath Roberts Otto Willberg Ecka Mordecai Odie ji Ghast Rob Thorpe Geoff Bright Rodrigo Constanzo Anton Hunter and... A performance of John Zorn's Cobra by the Noise Upstairs Workshop Group. Free entry. Supported by Manchester Metropolitan University and the Spaces and Styles of Participation (PARTISPACE) project which receives funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research program.

Black Box project

The Black Box project is a project that involves Pierre Alexandre Tremblay on bass/electronics, Patrick Saint-Denis on robotics/electronics, Sylvain Pohu on guitar/electronics, and myself on drums/electronics. It’s a four-way collaboration that has gone through two residencies (in Montreal and Huddersfield), to work out the finer details of putting a large-scale show together.

It looks and sounds something like this:

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with Brian Crabtree/Jay Gilligan – St. Margaret’s Church – Whalley Range – 13/11/16

Who	with Brian Crabtree/Jay Gilligan
When	Sunday, November 13, 2016 5:30pm - All Ages
Where	St. Margaret's Church (map) Rufford Road Whalley Range, England M16 8AE
Other Info	MICHAEL FISCHER Austrian saxophone solo acoustic and electronics extraordinaire http://m.fischer.wuk.at/ PADANG FOOD TIGERS heavy drone weeze tacoma vibes from these Londoners with a new record out on Northern Spy https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/album/bumblin-creed MONOME/JAY GILLIGAN/RODRIGO CONSTANZO awesome collaboration between US based bespoke synth/interface artist designer/performer Brian Crabtree of Monome, artist music maker extraordinare Rodrigo Constanzo and US born now resident in Sweden juggling master Gilligan. http://monome.org/ http://www.fourthshape.com/ http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com/ RIE NAKAJIMA/PIERRE BERTHELT/LEE PATTERSON International (JP/FR/UK) trio of sound artists working at the edges of sound, sculptures, instrument making and performing. http://www.rienakajima.com/ http://pierre.berthet.be/ http://www.q-o2.be/en/artist/lee-patterson/ Doors 5:30pm kicks off at 6pm on the dot. £7/£5

Borealis Festival – Bergen Kunsthall – Bergen – 11/03/16

Who	Borealis Festival
When	Friday, March 11, 2016 11:00pm - All Ages
Where	Bergen Kunsthall (map) No. 5 Bergen Kunsthall, Rasmus Meyers allé 5 Bergen, Norway 5015
Other Info	Rodrigo Constanzo is all about playing some pieces for you. He wants to play you some loud pieces, with flashing lights. As well as some quieter pieces, that are charged with a simple stillness. Rodrigo plans on using the following: a drum (maybe even a drumset), some tuning forks, an old computer hard drive, a variety of metal objects and sticks, and some digitally controlled lights. At some point in the middle you may find him singing quietly to himself. He is alone on stage, so no one will hear him. It is unlikely that that he will travel through time tomorrow(/yesterday?), but do not worry. It is(/was) all worth it.

Tech talk – MadLab – Manchester – 26/01/16

Concurrent conference (dfscore) – Alison House – Edinburgh – 16/01/16

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. Everything is controlled from a Max patch I made specifically for the gig (and specifically to test these behaviors), most of which use audio analysis to dynamically record/play/process incoming audio and trigger a variety of light behaviors. (Click here to view my moment to moment analysis of the performance using my Making Decisions in Time improv analysis framework.)

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Solo drums+electronics – Coffee Kabin – Huddersfield – 09/12/15

dfscore 2.0

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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 a local computer network. The primary motivation for building the system was to allow for a middle ground between composition and improvisation.

But before I get into all of that, here is a video showing the latest version along with its premiere at the Manchester Jazz Festival:

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Trio with David Birchall and THF Drenching – Cutting Room – Manchester – 18/09/15

Who	Trio with David Birchall and THF Drenching
When	Friday, September 18, 2015 7:30pm - All Ages
Where	Cutting Room (map) Blossom Street Manchester, England M4 5AF

dfscore – Manchester Jazz Festival Pavillion – Manchester – 02/08/15

Who	dfscore
When	Sunday, August 2, 2015 5:00pm - All Ages
Where	Manchester Jazz Festival Pavillion (map) Albert Square Manchester, England M2 7DH
Other Info	Rodrigo Constanzo percussion, electronics / Richard Craig flute, electronics / Sam Andreae tenor saxophone, electronics / Alex Harker, Anton Hunter guitars, electronics / Pierre Alexandre Tremblay bass, electronics / Richard Knight electronics Composer and drummer Constanzo has conceived a ground-breaking creative tool for communicating commands to musicians through digital devices. Using graphic, visual or written cues, new music is created instantaneously by improvisers, simply following the instructions appearing on screen in front of them as they play. Leading improvisers will perform music created using the system, including the world première of a work commissioned especially for mjf 2015 in collaboration with Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

The Noise Upstairs – Fuel Cafe – Manchester – 09/07/15

sonADA Festival – Seventeen – Aberdeen – 01/05/15

Who	sonADA Festival
When	Friday, May 1, 2015 9:30pm - All Ages
Where	Seventeen (map) 17 Belmont Street Aberdeen, England AB10 1JR