photo by Martin Wilson

Rodrigo Constanzo is a Spanish-American performer and composer living in Manchester, England.  He is an avid improviser and performs regularly using home made electro acoustic, and modified electronic instruments. He has performed at the FUTURESONIC and Manchester Jazz Festivals in Manchester, the SOUND Festival in Aberdeen, and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.  He has released several CDs including an improv duo CD with Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, and most recently, I AM YOUR DENSITY, a large ensemble improv composition which includes the graphic score with it. He is currently working towards an MA in Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Manchester and involved in several projects including Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern, an improv based performance-art group. He also co-runs The Noise Upstairs, an improv collective and label which puts on monthly nights and quarterly workshops in Manchester and Sheffield.

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“Rodrigo Constanzo plucked and bowed his box of trinkets and drum kit in screeching entrancement. Often touching the surface of free jazz drumming, Rodrigo captured his audience with trails of chimes, mostly portraying hostility through non-traditional instruments such as whisks and melodica tubes.” – Ross Cotton Area Magazine

“At times you come across something of a little unknown gem. Rodrigo uses burss of noise using drums and other instruments, strange oscillator drones, spaced out with silence to provide some very interesting experimental music.” – Andrew Miles Circuitbent.info

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GROUPS:

Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern
A Greater Horror with Mauricio Pauly & Alex Tod
Duo with PA Tremblay
Duo with Richard Knight
Duo with Hervé Perez
Trio with Ray Evanoff & Iain Harrison
Strikethrough Me And You 

INSTRUMENTS PLAYED:
Piano, Guitar, Drums, Bass Guitar, Tabla, Melodica, Laptop, and misc/diy/bent electronics/toys.

MOST RECENT PERFORMANCE:
Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern at the Seeing Sound 2 Symposium.

MOST RECENT COMPOSITION:
It’s Made From Pieces Of From Of Pieces Of My Skin (for string quartet and four computer hard drives)

MOST RECENT INSTRUMENT:
Sidrassi-Tom (v3)

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol 2