Rodrigo Constanzo

So I’m doing a solo (drums+electronics) tour across the UK hitting up a bunch of classy cities (details below).

Finished a new piece a couple of days ago.

The Chocolate Grinder is a software emulation of a skipping/glitchy CD player.

New project.

So a few months ago I experienced a big paradigm shift.

Finally finished a new string quartet.

As you may or may not know, I’m a bit of a hardware nut.

So I’ve been working with what I call the Sidrassi-Tom for just over two years now.

I wrote a paper on my evolving drum+electronics setup entitled “Towards the Beat of a Different Drummer : A Journey into the Loss of Fidelity in Drums and Electronics”.

So I started my MA in Electro-Acoustic Composition last September and the University of Manchester and have just handed in my course work for this term.

I recently spent a week and a half at STEIM and it was amazing.

I’m very excited to release “16 Figures”, a improv trio CD I recorded last year with Ray Evanoff and Iain Harrison.

After meeting and playing with Hervé Perez back when The Noise Upstairs’ Sheffield night started in early 2010 we got to talking about doing a recording together.

I enjoy doing remixes.

I hate social networking sites.

So many many exciting things in the works.

After joining The Noise Upstairs last year, Anton and I put a lot of things in motion to help The Noise Upstairs grow and improve.

After speaking at the Max/MSP Symposium at last years GEMDays Festival, PA Tremblay mentioned that he’s going to try to get me to perform at this years festival.

So like, one of my bands, Deaf To Van Gogh’s Ear is opening up for Xiu Xiu next month (February 23rd).

Finally finished building this little box.

I am very excited to finally present “I AM YOUR DENSITY”.

Had the opportunity to open up for Ingrid Laubrock as part of The Noise Upstairs Presents.

Just finished a tour with Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern.

I am very excited to present “Drum & Bass : And The Horse You Rode In On”.

I ran my first Circuit-Bending Workshop, as part of The Noise Upstairs’ new quarterly workshops.

Anton invited me to co-run The Noise Upstairs with him.

Finally finished another new instrument.

The recording session I did with PA Tremblay back in February is finally coming into shape.

I submitted “I AM YOUR DENSITY” to an open call for works for the Red Note ensemble, and it was one of the chosen pieces.

After several months of work, my band, Deaf To Van Gogh’s Ear, finally finished our EP entitled “We Call Them Accidents Because We Don’t Want Them To Happen”.

After over a month of planning, and building I finished this new instrument.

After sharing a stage with PA in December, and being invited to speak at the GEM Days festival in Huddersfield, we booked some studio time at Huddersfield University.

What do they all have in common?

I was invited to speak at the Max/MSP symposium by PA Tremblay after sharing a stage with him in December.

Busy with Deaf to Van Gogh’s Ear, recording an EP, and doing quite a bit of gigging.

This completes the ‘acoustic’ half of ‘Two Point Owe’.

My poor, poor neighbors.

More ‘Two Point Owe’ recording with “The Ocean’s Like Right There”.

Just got back from performing in Aberdeen as part of the SOUND festival.

With Serg moving back soon, and a recent performance firing us up, we decided to do a studio session.

Just performed I AM YOUR DENSITY at The Noise Upstairs.

So what is it?

This is the first recording session for my next CD entitled ‘Two Point Owe’.

I decided to give up on trying to buy an original WH-1 Whammy Pedal and instead buy a current WH-4 Whammy Pedal.

I got a last minute message from Blank Media about doing a solo gig for them.