16 Figures

Rodrigo Constanzo, Ray Evanoff, & Iain Harrison

“16 Figures”

Rodrigo Constanzo (amplified strings & electronics), Ray Evanoff(amplified cymbal), and Iain Harrison (saxophone) are about as diverse a trio of musicians as could be. With a collective background ranging from DIY instrument building to Brazilian music to big band, the three bring a lot to bear on the act of making music. This eclectic range of musical influences and experiences gives rise to improvisations which highlight both the unavoidable conflicts and the common ground which emerge as a result of their distinct backgrounds and outlooks.
The CD comes in a hand stamped cardboard package with all artwork done by Angela Guyton.

Duration: 46 minutes over 16 tracks
Released: 2011 independently
Available for £6

I Am Your Density

I AM YOUR DENSITY is a composition written for a group of improvisers. It is loud. It is noisy. It is long.

The instrumentation ranges from voice, to didgeridoo; from circuit-bent drum machine, to acoustic drums, all manners of ruckus are celebrated.

The CD comes in a DVD case, with the graphic score included as a DVD booklet.

Duration: 17 minutes over 6 tracks
Released: 2010 on The Noise Upstairs Records
Available for £4

Drum & Bass: And The Horse You Rode In On

Rodrigo Constanzo + Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
“Drum & Bass : And The Horse You Rode In On”

“Drum & Bass” began as a mutual admiration. PA and I shared a stage in 2008 and after a few e-mails decided to meet up and ‘have a session’. I showed up with my ‘drums’ (using the term loosely) and PA setup his 6-string fretless bass + Laptop setup.

What followed spanned more textures, genres, and sound-worlds than I can describe, but the terms textural laptop-scapes, to grimy stutter-hop, to some smooth jazz

The CD comes in a hand silk-screened cardboard package with all artwork done by Angela Guyton.

Duration: 60 minutes over 13 tracks
Released: 2009 independently
Available for £6

 
 

Jew Point Owe

Jew Point Owe is the answer to the timeless question. That is, if the timeless question is “What do you get when you juxtapose (not so) simple folk songs with electronic dysfunction?”.

Over a year in the making, Jew Point Owe began as a series of folk songs, each with a compositional twist, to serve as ‘lead sheets’ to be interpreted. True to form, each one was recorded with unique instrumentation, and approached differently. The electronic half comes from laptop/DIY electronics improvisations created to counterbalance the acoustic nature of the initial songs.

The end product represents the background music at a social mixer that no one wanted to go to, but can’t seem to find a way out of. The fire exit is blockaded shut, but the punch is spiked, so drink up.

The physical release is also a unique artifact, each one being a limited edition hand-made, hard cover book made by Rodrigo Constanzo with the scores to the acoustic pieces inside, along with illustrations by Angela Guyton.

Duration: 60 minutes over 11 tracks
Released: 2009 on Concrete Moniker
Limited edition, hand-made, hardcover book version available for £6.50. Also available as flexi-pay download. Click here to order

 

The Beatles White Album

The Beatles White Album is the culmination of several years worth of relatively independent projects, recordings, compositions, and improvisations. Tracks range from a solo prepared piano improvisation, to a through composed guitar trio, to a plagiarized sound collage, to data file to sound noisefest, to a CD skipping rendition of a Bach Prelude.

Duration: 41 minutes over 12 tracks
Released: 2007 independently
Available for £5

Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern – The Sans of Gilbert

Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern

“The Sans of Gilbert”

Recorded at the end of 2008 “The Sans of Gilbert” is TSC’s first release. It is a studio recording involving three improvising musicians, and one improvising artist recorded with nearly as many cameras as mics. The music is completely improvised, as are the visuals, but the two inform and affect each other.

Hand-made double CD/DVD Release, each one being unique.

Rodrigo Constanzo – Music
Sergio Gato - Music
Angela Guyton - Art
Anton Hunter - Music

Duration: 33 minutes over 1 track
Released: 2009 independently
Available for £5