Almost done working on "Jew Point Owe". It will be coming out in July on the Manchester Label, Concrete Moniker.
Also coming out soon is an "I AM YOUR DENSITY" single.
My second solo CD, "The Beatles White Album" is complete. It is available for purchase, or free download on my webpage, www.rodrigoconstanzo.com
Rodrigo Constanzo - "The Beatles White Album"
Rodrigo Constanzo was born in Madrid, Spain in 1976. He then spent the next three decades living in Miami, Florida, before moving to Manchester, England where he resides today. He has performed as a solo musician, or as part of various groups for the majority of his life. The most recent being as part of the SOUND festival in Scotland and speaking at the GEM Days festival in Huddersfield. He is also slated to perform at the FUTURSONIC festival in Manchester in 2009.
He began his studies in music at the age of four, studying piano with his grandmother, formerly a piano teacher at the Conservatory of Cuba. In high school he formed, and directed, the South Miami Senior High School Rock Band, which performed regularly at school functions. He graduated in 1994 and went on to study at Miami Dade College under Jane Pyle, Jo Foster, and Linda Fowler. While there, Rodrigo won, and placed in, several composition competitions, met future collaborators, and eventually earned an Associate of Arts degree in Music.
In 2004, Rodrigo formed Failure, Arc of Beauty with Gilbert Kong. The group would eventually grow to include his future wife, Angela Guyton, whose participation allowed for the exploration of the ways sight and sound could interact on a performance level. This is something Rodrigo always had an interest in and worked hand in hand with his passion for improvisation. It was improvisation which would lead to the formation of MUS2301, an improvisation-based group/class that continued in Miami until Rodrigo and Angela moved to Manchester, England in 2007.
Although he is classically trained, his primary interest lies in experimental music and improvisation. For the past ten years he has built and performed using instruments he has built himself, ranging from modified electronic toys, to an electro-acoustic stringed instruments. He is as eclectic a composer as he is a performer, believing that each composition is self-standing, with each idea being a unique one, and demanding a unique outcome. The one thing that ties most of his work together is the surrendering of part of his control as a composer, be it in aleatoric or arbitrary decisions at the composition level, or through largely improvised forms at the performance level. This can manifest itself as a graphic score for large ensemble, an intricate string quartet, or a simple folk song.
He is currently involved in several projects, the main ones being performing with Takahashi's Shellfish Concern, an improv based performance-art group, and a minimalist, math/pop band, Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear.
rodrigo i keep on enjoying so much your music . . . is a great conbination of styles wich i personally think it really does work and make lot of sense for me . . .
Machinefabriek is amongst the finest experimental/electronic artists of today. His ultra-prolific back catalogue showcases his ability to perfect classical ambience, organic drone soundscapes, electronic minimalism and cathartic noise. He is hailed as one of the most interesting new experimental musicians by the Wire magazine.
Xela is the shady, underworld atmospheres and improv horrors of John Twells, owner of Type Records. "Xela has always been able to pre-empt the shifting tides of electronic music and deliver a statement that's definitively of its time” (Boomkat).
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
Thanks for the add! I really like you're music. Specially that Nunchuka Barrio song. That second solo really lifts the entire piece. Who was that bad motherfucker?
BLISTRAP @ The Noise Upstairs Jam Night, FUEL, Withington, 9pm, 11th December
BLISTRAP are - Mick Beck, Stefano Guist and Jonny Drury
The Noise Upstairs hosts three of Shefield’s finest improvisers from the FREENOISE label. A trio of Mick Beck (incredible tenor sax)/ Stefano Giust (Italian version of Corsano on drums but better!) and Jonny Drury on electric guitar. Together it’s going to be a riotous affair, but also at times beautiful! Their names will be in the hat, so you’ve all the got chance to get up there and get involved. Bring any sounds you can find!
So, if you're already sick of the Christmas CDs, get yourself down to FUEL on Thursday and get involved!
findlay_hunter_rennie emerge from Manchester's unsung experimental underground, with a debut album brimming full of razor sharp ideas, glistening soundscapes, soaring melodies and decomposed structures. All improvised, all live, always unpredictable. Cello meets guitar meets trombone meets laptop meets a lot of effects pedals. Download includes 6-track album, pdf liner notes and exclusive cover artwork by Becca Smith. www. concretemoniker. co. uk
if you fancy a gentle evening of sonic exploration, we have this wednesday 10th Sept :
+the noise upstairs (kate-anton-ben) - those notorious improvisors, responsible for the regular jam nights at fuel and various experimental improv events around manchester;
+KAIROS - after a quiet year, a few members of the uni live electroacoustic-instrumental improv group will reminisce via the medium of sound;
Hullo Rodrigo - Matt (Farthest Thing) here! Just to say first off I'm still up for the Klezmer composition when you are! Band or solo, it sounds like an awesome idea :)
Seeeeecondly, I have some advice to ask you as a man of outstanding knowledge in the field of live electronics ;) (I think that's enough buttering up) I have a dilemma...
I'm doing some work with a wind quintet, writing a piece for them and myself on live electronics. Now, what I want, is to mic them individually, run them into my mixer and, through my fx, and finally through my echoplex. The aim being to be able to sample them and effect them live - BUT I'm absolutely stumped on how to isolate just one instrument (not completely of course, seeing as though I'm using rubbish mics) but to, for example, have them all playing and just sample the clarinet, or to put the bassoon and horn through my kaoss pad and leave the others clean... if you catch my drift.
My mixer has an effects loop but its not quite what Im looking for: Id have to turn the fx level up and down on each channel individually via the knobs - which is pretty clumsy and it all ends up bleeding through anyway or feeding back horrifically (I do wonder if a better mixer would have a better fx loop function though). Ideally though I would have some kind of small desktop box with 5 inputs and 2 outputs, with a binary switch (fx/clean) for each of the 5 channels and one output going through effects and one going clean...
Does something like that exist? I'm probably being totally retarded...
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